Keep up the good work. Californians and I are for the most part in the dark regarding local and state issues. I am grateful to people that take the time to explain issues that effect all of us. California is greatly overpopulated and has not the discipline to properly plan for a sustainable path to the future. Multinational agribusiness concerns, urban sprawl, freshwater depletion and environmental degradation in the name of jobs and progress is a losing mixture of short term profiteering interests. Our ignorance and apathy of local issues have created this climate we now face. I realize now that America is only as good as my neighborhood.