EDITORIAL: LOCAL CONTROL IS VITAL
Doomed may be the best way to describe local control in Orinda and other California cities. For years, government forces in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. have been usurping power from local communities. Local control in Orinda is in such jeopardy that city-council member (and the city’s mayor for most of 2016) Victoria Smith, on May 26, 2016, wrote two members of the California State Legislature stating: “The City of Orinda opposes the recently-released proposal by the Governor [Jerry Brown] to…