Pre-election round-up from the Opinion factory

By Matt Welch

You can find our easy-to-print list of Editorial Board endorsements for tomorrow's elections here, with hyperlinks going to the various editorials. Here are some election-related Op-Ed columns (going back just a week, because after that they're in the paid archive), and also some from our news-side columnists:

Robert Greene: Why Prop. 1A, 83 and 84?
A mix of state law and politics determines what number an initiative gets on the ballot.

Steve Lopez: A clouded life finds some light at Rainbow
How lives can be transformed by the types of projects that would be funded by Proposition 1C and Measure H.

Joseph Mailander: L.A.'s affordable housing boondoggle
There are better ways to address costly housing than hiking property taxes to build a handful of homes.

Roger Pilon: Stopping the government's property grab
Proposition 90 would make the state think twice before seizing land or curbing property owners' rights.

George Skelton: Gov.'s popularity alone won't sell voters on bonds
There's no current evidence Schwarzenegger is selling voters on the record $37 billion in bonds that he and the Legislature negotiated.

George Skelton: How to save -- or sink -- California on Nov. 7
Any Californian who doesn't vote for these bonds might as well just pack up and move.

George Skelton: Public financing of campaigns is the right idea, but Prop. 89 is wrong
If it's good for the whole state, why only pick on the banks and corporations to pay for it?