Long Beach Press-Telegram

A nonprofit public policy think tank that is advocating the idea -- the Washington, D.C.-based New America Foundation -- said that instant runoff voting changes the nature of political campaigns. ... Original Article

Gautam Dutta of the New America Foundation, an election reform group that has been pushing for the council to consider IRV, refutes these criticisms. ...

LONG BEACH - Take a walk in Long Beach and what do you see?

Stray from the palm-lined streets by the ocean shore, the bustling hubs at Pine Avenue, the Pike or Belmont Shore; leave the manicured lawns of the Virginia Country Club area or the Bixby neighborhoods, and there's another Long Beach.

It is the Long Beach that struggles daily to make the rent, rather than the one that plops down a fortune for an ocean-view condo.

It is the Long Beach… more