By Chris Finnie This year voters have a choice between six candidates for the San Lorenzo Valley Water District board. Because one group of candidates has chosen to campaign as a slate and encourages voters to vote for all three as a group, I’m going to treat all six asRead More →
By Chris Finnie * A lot has been said about the legacy of senator John McCain since his death. And, whether people agreed with his policies and the votes he cast in office, there are a couple of things everybody seems to agree on about him. He was willing toRead More →
General Election November 6, 2018 The 2018 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. These midterm elections will take place in the middle of Republican President Donald Trump’s first term. All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seatsRead More →
By Chris Finnie At the Santa Cruz Mountain Bulletin, we’re hardly in the same league with the people the White House assails as purveyors of “fake news.” But there’s a reason the authors of the United States Constitution provided protection to only one occupation: the press. The First Amendment, ratified with nine others commonly called the BillRead More →
By Chris Finnie What was the effect this year of the state’s Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, otherwise known as the “Jungle Primary,” which took effect in 2011? In district 8, two Republicans are the only choices for the House of Representatives. For U.S. Senate, the only candidatesRead More →