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February 7, 2023 By Alex Vassar

State Medals

California has a wide variety of medals awarded for service to the state. Governor’s State Employee Medal of Valor (Special Service) – State Employees – For an act of heroism by a state employee extending above and beyond the normal call of duty or service performed at personal risk to his or her safety to […]

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November 13, 2022 By Alex Vassar

What Happened in the 2022 Election

[Updated 12/12] That was interesting. An election season that roared by in that unique pandemic fashion that we’re still getting the hang of. Compared to the last cycle, the 2022 election appears to have brought far lower turnout than the 2020 election, and a significantly higher number of contests that remained unsettled past the first […]

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March 15, 2019 By Alex Vassar

Not a Legislator

In his obituary, Harry A. Cobden was described as “a pioneer aviator, a rancher, a mountain climber, a rodeo cowboy, a Golden Gloves boxer, an engineer, a lawyer, a counter-espionage agent, a campaign manager in Upton Sinclair’s 1934 race for the governorship of California and, in the mid-1930s, a California state senator from Alameda County.” Cobden was not, […]

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