If “old civil rights hands” had ever, in the past, exhibited any willingness at all to “look toward possible non-partisan efforts seeking legislative or administrative remedies for such problems as may remain in affirmative action programs” Prop. 209 would never have existed.
I am bemused by the recent spate of articles in both the Mercury News and the Chronicle bemoaning the fact that gasoline prices vary across California, and are generally higher in the Bay Area than in other parts of the state. The raw facts – which should be neither surprising nor of particular concern to anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of free-market economics — have been veiled in mystery and innuendo, implying some vast oil company conspiracy and the specter of evil oil companies (gasp!) actually profiting from our addiction to automobility