In The News

Friday, September 12, 2008
A vote for Proposition 11 is a vote for democracy itself.

Even before the Tesla gets delivered to its first owner, the very notion of this electric-car start-up - its greenness, its technological promise, its Silicon Valley roots - already has the eyes and ears of politicians in Washington and Sacramento.

Five Bay Area teenagers give former State Controller Steve Westly optimism for the future.

Tonight, the college-bound youths receive scholarships for their extraordinary volunteer efforts during high school. And their civic-minded work shows a face of youth that's too often overlooked, said Westly, one of the supporters of the new scholarship program.

SANTA CRUZ — The Beach Hill area near the Boardwalk will become "Beach Island" and the pesky problems on Pacific Avenue will no longer be an issue once the street is submerged, if the planet continues to warm at its current pace causing the sea to rise.

Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal told regional economic and government leaders that UCSC and Santa Cruz County have a unique opportunity to participate in the solution to global warming and boost the local economy.

Sitting in his office in the capitol of Silicon Valley venture capital -- that would be the Menlo Park powerhouse complex of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers -- Steve Westly, the former Democratic controller, looks very much in the political and high-tech mix these days.

To understand politics, the adage goes, you've got to follow the money. But to understand money, it sometimes helps to follow the politicians.

Tesla Motors named former eBay executive and former gubernatorial candidate Steve Westly to its board of directors today.

LOS ANGELES: When Leland Yee ran for the San Francisco school board in 1986, Asian-American elected officials in California were rare and misconceptions about them rampant. Yee, who emigrated from China at age 3 and has a doctorate in child psychology, recalled that some people at the time wondered if he knew how to speak English properly.

The man who spent more than $35 million in an unsuccessful bid to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination drives up in a Chevy Tracker, a micro-mini SUV mounted with dual bicycle racks.