Effort to overhaul California governance at a crossroads

Jack Chang of the Sacramento Bee notes that many of the highly touted constitutional reforms, including a convention, of recent years have stalled. "You can't underestimate the level of problems we have, and the government as currently situated does not have the tools it needs to make the reforms," said Jim Wunderman of the Bay Area Council.

A new group. the Think Long Committee, was recently founded by Nicolas Berggruen to bring matters back to the voters. He has put together a bipartisan group of high-powered players for an effort he acknowledges will take years.

Ideas abound, but it's not clear the necessary political will be found for new efforts to reform the state's outmoded constitution.

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