David Wilkening of the California State Senate has been named the winner of the 2013 Legislative History Award. During the forty years he worked for the State Senate, David Wilkening served the institution in a number of important positions, including nearly twenty years as Director of the Senate Office of Floor Analyses. He led several […]
Those we lost in 2013
We lost some legends this year. Bill Munnell was a member of the Cold War-era Assembly Doomsday Committee. Newt Russell was one of the very last legislators who set such a high value on following the Legislature’s rules that he wouldn’t allow them to be broken in the name of expediency. Nick Petris authored the […]
California Citizenship Day
One of those little-known California holidays, California Citizenship Day was proclaimed by Governor Pat Brown in 1965 as “an appropriate time for the reaffirmation of and rededication to, the high ideals, rights and traditions of citizenship, both in California and the nation.” The resolution, from the book The Original Constitution of the State of California; […]
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