Subject: Public Policy Institute of California

• Mostly Grim

  Grim news from beyond our shores. The bombing of the Askariyah shrine in Samarra has pushed Iraq closer to a full blown civil war. Grim news from our shores. Not the Bush administration's secret deal with Dubai Ports, but the public disgust with the Schwarzenegger administration's handling of coastal issues. Only 28% of respondents in a poll by the Public Policy Institute of California gave Schwarzenegger a favorable rating on the state of the state's beaches. Worse still for Schwarzenegger,

  February 23, 2006

• 2002: Diary of a Mad Year

  January 2, 2003

• !Ask a Mexican!

  July 5, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  July 21, 2005

• Diary of A Mad Year

  2004 regurgitated

  December 30, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 9, 2004

• Spitting Mad!

  October 10, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  March 28, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  January 31, 2002

• In California, It's Still the Economy, Stupid

  You hear a lot out of Sacramento about the state budget, education cuts and even the lobbyists ex-Assemblyman Mike Duvall was diddling. (Excuse me, "telling tall tales" about diddling.) But the latest "Californians & Their Government" survey by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) essentially says, "It's still the economy, stupid." Interestingly, the PPIC is headed by Mark Baldassare, a former UC Irvine dean who once found himself in R. Scott Moxley's cross-hairs&n

  September 17, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Special Wedding Edition

  October 8, 2009