9 Breaking up is hard to do.

• Position: STATELINE - Tim Draper on breaking up California into six new states - Brief article

Fifty-five states in the Union? That's what a Silicon Valley venture capitalist hopes to see in his bid to break California into six new states. Tim Draper says the state is ungovernable because it is so large, and that residents would be better served by smaller governments. He won approval to begin collecting the 807,000 signatures needed to get his plan on the November ballot in California, one of 24 states that allow direct initiatives. Draper would create the states of Jefferson, North California, Silicon...