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Voting and Campaign Transparency w/ Asm. Sabrina Cervantes

Policy Chats

About Sabrina Cervantes : Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes was elected in November 2016 and represents California’s 58th Assembly District. She currently serves as Chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, leading a record-breaking 35 legislative members, which also includes a historic number of 21 Latinas.

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Asm. Sabrina Cervantes: Voting and Campaign Transparency

Policy Chats

About Sabrina Cervantes : Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes was elected in November 2016 and represents California’s 58th Assembly District. She currently serves as Chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, leading a record-breaking 35 legislative members, which also includes a historic number of 21 Latinas.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While it is a pathbreaking initiative, at the same time, it's static in that it is a funding source extremely difficult to modify for supporting "new" programs, because it requires the State Legislature to change the enabling legislation. But the time to change that is not when an organization is about to fail, but long before.

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Why States Need Stronger Statutes about Animal Cruelty

Barrett & Greene

I have spent a good part of my legislative career pointing out this link between animal cruelty and future violent behavior towards people. When I was in the Connecticut legislature, I had some success passing legislation that addresses the issue. Known as “Desmond’s Law” it was enacted in October of 2016.

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Automobile interests don't favor mass transit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As I’ve written in my book , Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it. The Boring Company was supposed to solve traffic, not be the Las Vegas amusement ride it is now.

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The key to better enterprise risk management

Partnership for Public Service

Read our blog posts, “ Seating third parties at the risk table “ and “ How agencies can use enterprise risk management to implement new legislation ,” for recaps of the previous two working sessions in this series.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Its replacement with a long and rambling piece of ad hoc legislation that veers from the draconian to the incomprehensible and back again is more reminiscent of North Korea or Belarus than it is of a western democracy. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016.

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