Yet every election cycle thousands of votes arrive too late–and sometimes the discarded votes outnumber the margin of victory. Steve Weir, the president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials, said he has tracked late-arriving a

Whether these entities can actually work together effectively is very much an open question, but you can’t fault the logic. You can, however, fault the lack of ambition.

Some panels crackle with energy, elicit fresh ideas, and bring the audience into the discussion. Others plod along, and by the fifteen-minute mark the audience is checking Blackberries and thumbing through the program.

Days after the U.S. Navy declared it might sell the shuttered Concord Naval Weapons Station to a private company, military officials on Monday said they don’t want to stop Concord leaders from planning the base’s future.

This past Wednesday provided an excellent example of how a blog can be the quickest and most effective way to communicate a detailed message to a large body of people.