City on a Hill Press officially endorses Proposition 30. It’s a good solution for our school, the UC system, and the California budget, although there is always more to be done.

Gov. Jerry Brown rallied students to vote “Yes” on Proposition 30 in the upcoming election, making a stop at UC Santa Cruz on his tour of several campuses across the state.

Gov. Jerry Brown rallied students to vote “Yes” on Proposition 30 in the upcoming election, making a stop at UC Santa Cruz on his tour of several campuses across the state.

On Oct. 9 local elected officials and UCSC students met to discuss student loans, the rising cost of tuition, and other issues facing today’s college graduates, in a forum sponsored by the Santa Cruz County Democratic Party and the Democratic Women’s Club of Santa Cruz County.

Governor Brown’s Proposition 30 is a ransom note for a kidnapped education budget. Taxpayers will have to choose the lesser of two evils this November and vote on Proposition 30, which will raise the income tax on constituents earning over $250,000, as well as the state sales tax by a fourth of a cent.

Measures I and J, which seek to implement a parcel tax that would provide supplemental funding for K-12 schools in Santa Cruz school districts, are up for renewal on the June 5 ballot. With increasing state funding cuts to education, it is necessary for voters to support the city’s investment in its education system.

The possibility of a measure on the November ballot that would increase hotel taxes by 2 percent is an initiative worth getting behind.

Fourty people protested outside the Bank of America on River Street on Tax Day this past Monday and later moved the protest to the downtown clock tower, declaring that corporations should pay taxes to the government like individuals do.