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States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.

As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.