So says Universalist and Unitarian minister Thomas Starr King on his San Francisco deathbed, March 4, 1864. According to Charles Wendte’s 1921 biography of Starr…
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Stories about government and power in California
On November 27, 1978, angered that he wasn’t to be reappointed to the Board of Supervisors slot he resigned from on November 10, Dan White…
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Ten months before California becomes a state, voters overwhelmingly approve a constitution and elect a Legislature and a governor. There are some 107,000 persons of…
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On November 8, 1966, future President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, wins his first bid for elected office, defeating incumbent Gov. Pat Brown. Reagan is the…
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One the ugliest and most violent attacks on any group of people in California takes place on October 24, 1871. The “Los Angeles Massacre” or…
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