Robert M. Hertzberg | San Francisco Chronicle | Jan. 10, 2010
With our budget in crisis, our economy in the doldrums and our politics in disarray, the great temptation for anyone offering an agenda for California in 2010 would be to borrow the goal former state Senate President Pro Tempore John Burton once set during another challenging year: "Just to get out alive."
Sage advice indeed for those who hold political office. But what about the rest of us?