From today’s LA Times:
District 41: Jonathan Levey is the best candidate to succeed termed-out Fran Pavley in this coastal district, which stretches from Santa Monica to Oxnard. All five Democrats emphasize improving education, the environment and traffic flow; the main differences are how they would go about accomplishing their objectives.
If the race were decided by […]

Today, John Leland and Tom Zeller Jr. of the New York Times write the first in a series about identity theft called “Stolen Lives”:
Data breaches in the last year have exposed the personal information of more than 80 million Americans, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit organization that follows identity theft. On May […]

LA Weekly today announced their endorsement for the 41st Assembly District:
41ST ASSEMBLY: JONATHAN LEVEY
Few sections of California are as ecocentric as the 41st Assembly District, a stretch of Southern California that takes in Santa Monica, Malibu, Calabasas, Agoura Hills and other suburbs on each side of the L.A.-Ventura County border — not to mention the […]

Adam Nagourney of the New York Times gives some credence to “Democratic ambitions for capturing Congress” by sharing some numbers from my old boss:
Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster who worked for President Bill Clinton in the 1994 elections, said polls he conducted in three districts where Democrats were thought to have modest hopes of winning […]

In the Capitol Weekly, my favorite Republican, Dan Schnur, bemoans the lack of an interesting, substantive adversary in 2006. Writing in his inimitable style, Dan shows why he’s already looking forward to 2010:
Newsom ran for mayor on a platform of addressing San Francisco’s homeless crisis, which has turned into his signature accomplishment to date. Taking […]