Dear Editor, Santa Monicans, their Westside neighbors, and countless other people around the world have been celebrating the joyful seasons of Passover and Easter this April. As they do so, some may think back to […]

Amid the euphoria that erupted in much of California when a group led by former basketball great Earvin “Magic” Johnson and financier Mark Walter spent more than $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers […]

You don’t need me to tell you that the media ensuing from the fatal shooting of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin by 28 year-old George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida has been filled to bursting with haggling […]

Despite persistent delusions that it retains plenty of influence, the California Republican Party is in increasing danger of descending into third place among party registration choices of California voters. That’s clear from the newest voter […]

April Fool’s Day isn’t really “celebrated” in the strictest sense. I’ve never been invited to an April Fool’s party although maybe the perfect April 1st event would be to invite people to a party… and […]

There’s always reason for suspicion when political parties with dramatically disparate ideologies band together for anything. So it was when the state Republican and Democratic parties partnered in a lawsuit that eventually got California’s old […]

You may have heard that the Encyclopedia Britannica will no longer exist as a kind of wall of knowledge on shelves in classrooms and school libraries. No more penciling-in funny cartoon bubbles coming out of […]

The fact that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney can’t seem to cinch this year’s Republican presidential nomination despite his funding advantage and the splintering of his party’s extreme right wing has a lot of California […]

If arcane knowledge of computers and web sites and little-known rock bands is in any way the Esperanto of the current and preceding generations, then it’s probably safe to assert that reciting bits from Firesign […]

As time goes by and initiative petition circulators buttonhole more and more Californians outside big box stores and shopping malls, it becomes increasingly obvious that all three state tax increase initiatives now in the works […]