How Sacto Is Like Cairo: Why Difi Rivals Are Doomed
One of the inherent strengths of local news operations, way too rarely exercised (see: newspapers, death of) is the daily opportunity to report how and why big global events matter to readers and...
View ArticleNotebook: eMeg, DiFi, Gay Rights, Pensions, Districts
The week’s most distressing political post comes from the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire, reporting that Meg Whitman says she is “definitely not” running for the U.S. Senate in 2012. Say it...
View ArticleCalbuzz Joins the Party with the GOP in Sacramento
At least half of the Calbuzz Crisis Intervention and White Russian Affairs Desk will converge on Sacramento today to follow the progress of the Sovietization of the California Republican Party. Our...
View ArticleConvention Wrap: CA GOP Seems Headed for the Cliff
Like a herd of wooly mammoths at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, the California Republican Party is on the verge of extinction. It may still recover. The CRP has come back from near death before. And...
View ArticleHappy New Year! (And the Best Line from 2012)
As we say goodbye to 2012 and ring in 2013, it’s worth citing the single best line of the year. It was delivered by President Obama during the second debate with former Gov. Mitt Romney when the...
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