Proposition guides
- Easy Voter Guide is a great summary for new and busy voters
- Vote 411 has your local ballot and lists campaign contributors
- CALmatters publishes a guide, videos, and quizzes to help you decide
- Ballotpedia includes proposition histories, endorsers, and contributors
- Ballot.FYI youth-oriented guide, lets you order props by spiciness
- SF League of Pissed Off Voters rates ’em “Hell Yes” to “AYFKM? No!”
Nonpartisan organizations
- League of Women Voters: one of my very favorite groups
- California Budget & Policy Center: in-depth fiscal and policy analyses
- Public Policy Institute of California: economic and social research
- California Voter Foundation: voting technology (and songs!)
- Capitol Weekly: the insider’s guide to Sacramento
Newspaper editorial pages
- Los Angeles Times
- Orange County Register
- Sacramento Bee
- San Diego Union-Tribune
- San Jose Mercury News
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Fresno Bee
California political columnists
- George Skelton, LA Times senior political writer, has great insights
- John Myers, LA Times (formerly KQED radio), gives great background
- Dan Walters, CALmatters, reported for the Sacramento Bee for over 50 years
Government sites
- California Secretary of State has a terrific website, full of information
- Legislative Analyst’s Office does fantastic work, deserves more credit
- Voter Information Guide you received in the mail is available online
- CalAccess lets you see who has given how much to what political causes
- Leginfo is hard to use, but it provides access to legislative information
- Look here if you want to read our absurdly long State Constitution or other laws
- The State of California, in case you’re looking for the DMV