Sacramento Bee Editorial: The court battle involving Mayor Kevin Johnson's strong-mayor initiative has thrust some potent questions before Sacramento and all of California:
Can voters go directly to the ballot to overhaul or modernize their City Hall? Or does the state constitution force them to go through a lengthy charter revision process that, to some extent, can be checked by forces resistant to change?
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