The Governor and many others are saying that the passage of Proposition 123 was a good start, a first step, in providing the much need funding for public education. Now we want to hear about the second step. Restoring the 1.2 billions dollars that were cut during the r...

You and I are among a relatively small group of older women who enjoy decent pensions. Many women of our generation do not qualify for retirement benefits because they took time away from the workplace, or worked part time, to raise children or tend to aging parents. A...

Actress Helen Mirren still has it - and so do I.  What am I talking about?  You guessed it - the ability to create change, one action at a time.  This is what we spent our careers doing - and in order to keep our retirement security strong, I'm going to need your help....

This could be the summer that everything changes.  

We are fighting the same fights that we were fighting when I retired 10 years ago.

The same fights as when I was a new teacher 40 years ago.

It all amounts to the same thing - when those in policy-making positions don't...

I love it!  I volunteer once or twice a month on a Saturday morning to knock doors for a candidate.  I knock doors and tell the people I meet at the door that I am a retired teacher working to change the legislature so that it reflects more of the values that I hold:...