In My Own Words

OC Register

When my contemporaries reminisce about their college days, most focus fondly on the experience of invigorating intellectual challenges coupled with those exciting times of newfound independence.

Huffington Post

Two days after the school shooting in Newtown, the number of Google searches for mental health peaked to a 12 month high. The country is finally talking about mental health care. Connected and unconnected to Newtown, leaders exclaim that we must do something. Yet with some notable exceptions, the discussion is mostly lip service. We must translate that talk and the good intentions into real action.

Sacramento Bee

What does $10 billion mean in the context of a $3.8 trillion federal budget?We spend $10 billion and more on tax giveaways for huge multinational corporations with financial operations overseas, on fossil fuel subsidies for enormously profitable oil companies, and on unnecessary farm subsidies.

OC Register

After several years under the yoke of a profound recession, the California economy is starting to show signs of a breakout. In the last year, the private sector has added 300,000 new jobs, nearly double the national rate. California also attracted more than 50 percent of all venture capital investment in the country, almost three-times the amount of New York and Massachusetts combined.