Although the job of (statewide elected California) Insurance Commissioner is not often associated with environmental issues, both the current and the immediate past job holders ran green. With the Southern California firestorms highlighting the … [Read more...] about Firestorms ask: How green is my insurance commissioner?
Archives for 2007
Could Global Warming Melt the Insurance Glaciers?
Earlier this year, I had a snarky exchange with Pete at the annual Labor Day picnic in Foresta, which is a little community in Yosemite National Park in which my family has a home. Pete is an insurance agent and a Republican.Pete is also the chair … [Read more...] about Could Global Warming Melt the Insurance Glaciers?
Sitting alone in a room
For 3 weeks now, I have meditated alone in a beautiful room in the state capitol and it's been okay. The reader naturally will have two questions, the first is necessary for understanding, the second is the subject of this piece: 1) why are you alone … [Read more...] about Sitting alone in a room
Pick your dream: fascism, terrorism or love?
In the spiritual tradition(s) that I follow, we take responsibility for attracting/creating the conditions of our lives. Sometimes the appropriate responsibility is collective, not individual.From a scientific perspective, there is no evidence that … [Read more...] about Pick your dream: fascism, terrorism or love?
The Ring Cycle–Part I
Spiritual Lessons Learned from Losing Wedding RingsUnlike most women, I have 3 wedding rings, one that my husband of 16 years (living together 20) put on my finger, which was two kinds of gold and we chose together, and a platinum and diamond set … [Read more...] about The Ring Cycle–Part I
All the way with HBJ
Word on the street is that (former 35th California Assembly district) Assemblymember Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) is throwing her hat in the ring to run for the Republican dominated 19th Senate district.Past conventional wisdom has had it … [Read more...] about All the way with HBJ
Maviglio vs. Nichols
You may be interested in reading (Speaker Fabian Nunez' press secretary) Steve Maviglio's comments (and my response) on yesterday's post, CNA vs. Nunez which was also appeared in the California Progress Report. … [Read more...] about Maviglio vs. Nichols
C.N.A. vs. Nunez
If it wasn't clear before, the gloves are officially off in the relationship between California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-Los Angeles) and the California Nurses Association. Today's Sacramento Bee has CNA openly calling for Nunez (sorry, I … [Read more...] about C.N.A. vs. Nunez
Three Snouts Up for Dirty Story at Capital Stage
(:)(:)(:) for the Sacramento premiere of Dirty Story by John Patrick Shanley at the Capital Stage in Old Sacramento. The production is well-directed, well-cast, and well-acted. However, the play, in this critic's humble opinion, doesn't … [Read more...] about Three Snouts Up for Dirty Story at Capital Stage
Choose your candidate tool
This link is floating around--you answer a few questions, click on something and voila, a list appears of how the candidates for president stack up on your important issues.I took it and found (no surprise) that Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is the best … [Read more...] about Choose your candidate tool
Why Not A Leveraged Bailout?
Today's imminent collapse of the secondary loan market and talk of a bailout reminds me of nothing so much as the early 90s when I cut my teeth on public policy in the midst of the savings and loan bailouts. My former boss Michael Waldman (later a … [Read more...] about Why Not A Leveraged Bailout?
Do cell phones really make our kids safer?
Our seventh grader informed me today that he is the only kid he knows without a cell phone. And while he didn't have the audacity to ask for one, he did make it clear that he feels different.I have no intention of getting our child a cell phone to … [Read more...] about Do cell phones really make our kids safer?