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CA GOP aims for demographic rebound

Convinced that expanding voter appeal is a make-or-break proposition, leading California Republicans have begun to pivot toward a broad-based demographic strategy meant to rebuild from the ground up. In recent weeks, both the state party and the GOP’s minority caucus in Sacramento

Can tiered water rates be used to encourage conservation?

Wayne Lusvardi April 22, 2015

A media firestorm erupted Monday, April 20, over Gov. Brown’s opposition to a State Court of Appeals decision in a water rate setting case involving Proposition 218. The initiative, passed in 1996, requires voter approval for any new property-related utility

Both sides in water war need smelt to provoke compromise

CalWatchdog Staff February 27, 2013

Feb. 27, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi You probably read the news headlines this past month on the Delta smelt fish with curiosity about what was really going on: * “Delta water diversions reduced to protect smelt” — Feb. 11; * “Once again, water

Policy, not shortage, causing water crisis

CalWatchdog Staff November 26, 2012

Nov. 26, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi There is no apparent drought of journalists with metaphors to define the so-called water crisis in the United States and California. Every month, it seems, another new end-of-the-world water book comes out. Cynthia Barnett is