The California Supreme Court ruled today that students at UC schools can continue to benefit from AB-540, which grants in-state tuition status to graduates of California high schools as long as they attended a California high school for at least three years. This is a welcome ruling, even if it is only a small step [...]
Entries Tagged as 'California'
Et Tu, NYT?
November 15th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice
Tags: AB-540·California·California State University·citizens·CSU·DREAM Act·education·Hazleton·high school·illegal immigration·Immigration·Kris Kobach·Martinez v. Regents of the University of California·New York Times·Nice Work If You Can Get It·permanent residents·students·This American Life·UC·UCLA·undocumented students·University of California
Pro Mudslinging
October 29th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics
We’ve been rather hard on Meg Whitman on this blog. So in the interest of fairness,* I thought I’d second Paul Waldman’s defense of Whitman’s refusal to refrain from negative advertising. Negative advertising gets a bad rap in political campaigns, I think because it’s so often abused. There are plenty of reasons to criticize specific [...]
Tags: 2010 elections·California·California Governor·Jerry Brown·Meg Whiman·Michael Arcuri·Michael Arcuri's Bad Call·negative advertising
What She Said
October 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · AR, Politics
When I first saw this ad, I thought it was one of the most effective campaign ads I’d ever seen. Turns out, it’s not even the best ad by Jerry Brown using video of Meg Whitman to be released in the last two weeks. That would be this ad: I would have loved to have [...]
Tags: 2010 elections·California·California Governor·campaign ads·Jerry Brown·just desserts·Meg Whitman
Whoops
September 30th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Immigration, Politics
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. -AR
Tags: California·California Governor·Gloria Allred·Immigration·Meg Whitman·Meg Whitman housekeeper·Nicky Diaz-Santillan
Meggy v. Jerry
September 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · AR, AS, Immigration, Labor, Politics
The first-ever LTMF Liveblog event! Figures we decided to liveblog a political event that probably even most people in California couldn’t even be bothered to watch: the first governor’s debate between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown. Wow, huh? In case you ever wished you were privy to the snarky political chats that regularly occur between [...]
Tags: 2010 elections·California·California Governor·Debate·Election·governor·Jerry Brown·Liveblog·Meg Whitman
Taking Money From the Poor
November 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Law School
Watching and reading about last week’s protests at UCLA and Berkeley over proposed (now adopted) increases in tuition and fees, I couldn’t help thinking of the scene in Big Fish where Steve Buscemi’s character ropes Ewan McGregor’s character into helping him rob a bank, but the bank turns out not to have any money. My [...]
Tags: Berkeley·Big Fish·California·constitutional convention·organized labor·Steve Buscemi·student protests·UCLA·University of California
Poll: Americans Support Banging One’s Head Against the Wall
September 27th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
As highlighted by Greg Sargent, a recent NY Times/CBS Poll finds that while 64% of Americans believe that Republicans are opposing health care reform for purely political reasons, 65% of Americans believe that the Democrats should not pass a health care reform bill, even a good bill, without Republican support. That is, at least 14% [...]
Tags: California·constitutional convention·health care·Republicans