Analysis from inside the California political economy.
Periodic writing on the forces shaping the state's future — energy, water, land use, governance, and the campaigns that decide them.
What the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act means for California — and why local governments may face renewed scrutiny of district lines they already redrew.
The AI Question Every Campaign Will Have to Answer
The technology is past the point of theoretical. The question is no longer whether to use it — it is who you trust to use it well.
The May Sprint: Bills to Watch as the Legislature Hits Its First Real Deadline
May is when the California Legislature stops talking and starts cutting. Here is what we are tracking heading into the appropriations gauntlet.
The First Debate Told Us What This Race Is About — and What It Is Not
Six candidates, ninety minutes, one strikingly narrow conversation. Notes from the April 22 debate and what they signal about the next sixty days.
What Santa Barbara County’s Oil Fight Is Really About
The local opposition to oil production has not changed. The geopolitical context around it has. That should change the conversation.
California Policy Intelligence.
Periodic analysis from Rincon Strategies on California’s political and policy landscape. No noise. Worth reading.