2009-2010 Upcoming Events
Past Events
Southern California Constitutional Convention Town Hall Meeting
Saturday, July 18, 2009 from 9am - 3pm at the USC Davidson Center
The Southern California Constitutional Convention Town Hall will focus on introducing and educating the community to the concept and gathering feedback from the public. Featuring panels of elected officials, issues experts, and community leaders, this event will be Southern Californian residents’ first major opportunity to learn and ask questions about this powerful method to reform the state, and give input into a process that could profoundly affect California for generations to come.
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2008-2009 Past Events
"All The King's Horses...How To Fix A Broken California"
The Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Unruh Institute of Politics hosted a post-election colloquium on Tuesday, June 23rd, featuring two roundtable panels of experts from politics, media, government and academia. The first panel discussed "Alternative Futures: Assessing the Prospects of a State Constitutional Convention", moderated by David Abel, Publisher and Past Chairman on the California Assembly Speaker's Commission on State Local Government Finance Reform. The second panel talked about "Can It Actually Happen?" Journalists and analysts discussed the political realities of a Constitutional Convention and other possible reform efforts, moderated by Dan Schnur, Director of the Unruh Institute. If you weren't able to be there, but would like to know what happened, please check out our webcast by clicking on the title above.
America 2050 Forum: Rebuilding and Renewing America - Infrastructure Strategies for the Southwest Megaregion
The Bedrosian Center on Governance, the Keston Institute for Public Finance and USC, in partnership with America 2050, hosted business, civic, government, and academic leaders on June 19, 2009 at the USC Davidson Conference Center where they addressed key infrastructure challenges of the Southwest Megaregion (encompassing Southern California, the Las Vegas metropolitan area and Baja California) in order to position their economy for robust, equitable and sustainable growth. The forum had three objectives: 1) identify major infrastructure priorities in the Southwest Megaregion that are also issues of national interest; 2) find common ground on programs and policies that would help the region meet its core infrastructure challenges; and 3) establish a network of business, civic, government and academic organizations to work together in the Southwest Megaregion and push its collective agenda. If you weren't able to be there, please click on the title above for a summary of the day's proceedings.