Good one, Max. The funding scheme is a bit different in CA, where lots of poor families live in rich districts. We equalized across districts, but we equalized down. That suited districts with lots of wealthy families. They raise money privately, have more discretion, and still outspend.

Why return to make budget deals when the president refuses to honor the ones they've already made?

Horrible. And should be "lie there," but whatever.

We're here to serve the economy, apparently. Not the other way around.

Was thinking of him recently. He spoke at a panel I organized at the Bay Area Book Festival.

The venue opened that year. (My high school class graduated there two years later.)

I was thinking of that too.

Thanks, Jon. I reviewed this book (positively) for Kirkus Reviews.

Also the Gleason book.

Congrats for scoring a copy of "Going Down with Janice." Those aren't easy to come by.

The most important piece about Salazar's death and its aftermath was Hunter S. Thompson's "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan." It was commissioned by Warren Hinckle at Scanlan's but ran in Rolling Stone. Oscar Acosta, who drew Thompson to LA, later accompanied him to Las Vegas. (That's another story.)