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Opinion: How Far To Go Until Universal Health Care?

July 23, 2018

July 23, 2018

    Nothing frustrated California’s politically dominant liberal Democrats more this year than having to live with the reality that...

Opinion: Missing Word Makes Gas Tax Campaign Misleading

July 19, 2018

July 19, 2018

One dropped word can make almost any written passage wholly misleading and confusing. Imagine if President Trump’s 2016 election slogan...

Opinion: Unlimited Party Money Laundering

July 16, 2018

July 16, 2018

    For most Californians, the year-2000 Proposition 34 was little more than a meaningless formality. But not to politicians...

Opinion: Remember the Energy Crunch? Say No to Regional Electric Grid

July 11, 2018

July 11, 2018

          Way back in 1990, when Californians overwhelmingly voted to impose term limits on state officials, critics warned about the loss...

Opinion: CA Congress Members Should Do This More Often

July 6, 2018

July 6, 2018

It’s remarkable what California’s 53 members of the U.S. House of Representatives can do when they decide to work together....

Opinion: Do Democrats Really Want To Fix Prop. 13 Problems?

July 4, 2018

July 4, 2018

If it’s ever to be fixed, only a ballot proposition can repair the largest and most obvious inequity caused by...

Opinion: No Trouble Finding Newsom More Votes

July 3, 2018

July 3, 2018

As the primary election vote count drags on, not to reach a final tally until July 6, one large question...

Opinion: Legislature Must Fix List Of ‘Non-Violent’ Crimes

June 28, 2018

June 28, 2018

There isn’t a woman alive who was ever raped while either intoxicated or unconscious who doesn’t consider the entire experience...

Opinion: This Bill is an Absolute No Brainer

June 27, 2018

June 27, 2018

      Only occasionally does a proposed California law approach the status of being an absolute no-brainer.           There’s just...

Opinion: Never Mind Calexit; Other States May Want To Get Rid Of California

June 25, 2018

June 25, 2018

    Petition carriers – mostly volunteers – have been on the streets and in the parking lots of California...