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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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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The GSEs were authorized by congressional legislation to perform a very specific set of activities, primarily focused on providing loans to consumers or businesses for a designated purpose, and mostly related to real estate and housing. the legislation establishing them). A few of the recommendations require legislation by Congress. [4]

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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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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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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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Does Mail-in Voting Actually Increase Election Participation?

The Lowe Down

While the historical increase of mail-in-voting has occurred naturally through gradual adoption by voters, recent legislation like the California Voter’s Choice Act (VCA) has provided a boost. For instance, at a given level of mail-in voting, turnout was highest in 2008 and far lower in 2016 and 2012.

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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.