Carolyn Lochhead is a journalist who spent decades covering politics and policy as a Washington correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. She contributed to The Weekly Standard during its early years, writing about California's affirmative action battles, the influence of trial lawyers, and welfare policy.
Everybody knows there is money to be made in lawsuits these days -- suits against breast implants, asbestos, Norplant, and the like. Fabulous riches to be made, amounting to billions of dollars for hard-working trial lawyers. So should it come as any surprise that this money has entered the…
WHEN PRESIDENT CLINTON VETOED) welfare form on January 9, he quashed states' opes of receiving block grants and, with them, greater freedom to manage welfare as they saw fit. Nevertheless, confident that block grants will eventually pass, California governor Pete Wilson is pressing ahead with his…
If the California Civil Rights Initiative were in a popularity contest, the judges cbuld go ahead and hand out the award. As inititives go, CCRI -- which would ban race and gender lreferences in state employment, education, and contrating -- is very popular, popular enough to receive a 63 percent…