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By several measures, the FPPC is outnumbered

Outnumbered, image by Hernan E. Schmidt

During one unremarkable time period of four weeks, the number of political filings was roughly 12 times greater than the total number of people working for the agency charged with overseeing the accuracy and legality of those very filings. And that was a slow month.

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Women joining California corporate boards in record numbers

A board of directors considers a financial report from the chief strategy officer. (Photo: Gorodenkoff, via Shutterstock)

Amid growing calls for women on corporate boards, and headlines about corporate wrongdoing like the sexual harassment scandals at Google, California’s 662 publicly traded companies have added 669 women to their boards in the past two years. This sea change is driven by California Senate Bill 826, which took effect in 2019.

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