Letters to the Editor
After researching the 10 California propositions on the ballot, a reader asks: Don’t we elect legislators to decide complex policy matters?
Oct. 15, 2024
California
The political committee behind Proposition 36, which has touted the anti-crime measure’s support from top local Democratic leaders, donated $1 million to the California Republican Party in recent weeks.
Oct. 14, 2024
Opinion
Proposition 4 is a grab bag of spending on climate, drought and fire resilience and other environmental projects so disparate that this measure almost defies categorization. But it is still better to spend money today to prepare for climate change than to pay much more to respond in the future.
Oct. 12, 2024
Proposition 35 involves a tax on managed-care organizations, Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for medical providers, federal healthcare funding and the state budget. It’s complicated policymaking that is better suited to the full-time Legislature.
Proposition 33 goes too far. It includes sweeping language that prohibits the state from imposing any limits on rent controls set by cities and counties in the future, even if they stymie housing construction.
Oct. 11, 2024
Voters should approve Proposition 2 to provide $10 billion in bond money for California’s public schools and community colleges, many of which are overdue for repairs and upgrades.
Oct. 9, 2024
AIDS Healthcare Foundation calls this a “revenge initiative,” and we agree. Proposition 34 would change the rules for healthcare providers in ways that seem specifically designed to cut off the foundation’s tenant advocacy.
Oct. 7, 2024
California’s workers are struggling. Proposition 32 would give about 2 million of the state’s lowest-paid workers a modest pay raise.
Oct. 3, 2024
Californians should formally reject a wrongful moment in our voting history and instead positively affirm that bigotry toward same-sex couples has no place in our state or its Constitution.
Sept. 30, 2024
California is among 16 states that allow prisoners to be used for forced labor. That’s wrong. Proposition 6 will get rid of the repugnant practice.
Sept. 27, 2024