As The Assembly Conducts Its Annual ‘Woman of the Year” Ceremony March 26…

…Its 80 members and their honorees should consider these facts from a March 5 article in The Daily Beast called “Women and the Leadership Gap:” 

The United States ranks 71st in the world in female legislative representation. Bangladesh, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates score higher.

Seventeen percent of US Senators are women.    Read more »

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Today’s Latin Lesson is Why Collaboration Is So Effective

Nemo Solus Satis Sapit

“Two Heads Are Better Than one”

(Literally: “No One Is Sufficiently Wise Alone.”)    Read more »

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Who Says The State’s Tax Collectors Have No Sense of Humor?    Read more »

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A State Refund Coming Back? Here’s 15 Places to Donate Some of It

It’s tax ciphering crunch time.

If there’s a potential refund coming, the state has created 15 options to donate some of that cash to various causes.

There’s one new tax check-off for 2011 to be found on Page 3 of the Franchise Tax Board’s Form 540. It’s a fund to help child victims of human trafficking.    Read more »

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The Graying of California

“The state should see more than a 50 percent increase in the population over age 65” between now and 2020, according to the Legislative Analyst’s California Facts for 2011.  

Some 10,000 Baby Boomers are turning 65 every day — and will continue to do so for 19 years. 

About 4.4 million Californians are over 65, 11.5 percent of the population.    Read more »

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The More Things Change…

“California voters are notoriously fickle and cross party lines at the drop of a good pension plan.”

      —TIME, November 19, 1945    Read more »

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What Do You Place on the ‘Worthwhile’ List, Governor?…

“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.”

           –Earl Warren, born March 19, 1891

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Jeff Bethke Is a Viral Phenomenon. Here’s His First You Tube Video: “Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus 

(Here’s a Time profile of Behtke)    Read more »

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The Better The Teacher…

“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

“For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”

                       — Warren Buffett    Read more »

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To Qualify His New Initiative for the November Ballot, Gov. Brown Faces an Almost Impossibly Tight Deadline

Gov. Jerry Brown’s alliance with the California Federation of Teachers and their creation of a new hybrid tax increase measure means one less such proposal on the November ballot.

If it can get on the ballot.

An initiative seeking a spot on the November ballot must qualify by June 28.

The law sets the qualification deadline at 131 days prior to Election Day.    Read more »

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