January 28, 2026
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Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Confusion Sets In Over California Ground Water Law:

It’s beginning to look like the hosannas that greeted California’s first-ever groundwater regulation law were a tad premature when it passed late last summer. For after a tantalizing winter of heavy rains but insufficient snowfall […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

A California Comeback For Gerrymandering?:

Way back in 1811, almost 40 years before California became a state, then Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry engineered a congressional redistricting plan guaranteed to let his Democratic-Republican Party control his state’s congressional delegation. The plan […]