Dear President Obama, I have a suggestion: why don’t you close down 50 US Military bases on foreign soil over the next five years – assuming you’re re-elected in 2012. Said reduction of 50 bases […]

A few weeks ago I found myself on a phone call that had taken a sudden serious turn. A friend was struggling with having recently been cited for DUI, and I was sharing various adventures […]

Suddenly, there may be a solid link between two of the greatest American political debates of the past decade – illegal immigration and climate change. Until now, the only connections between these two hyper-contentious policy […]

I wish I could time travel, sit with Arcadia Bandin on the porch of her home on Ocean Avenue, and talk about her life. I would tell her that her gifts to the city have […]

I know who you talked to on your cell phone last week. I know which websites you’ve visited on your computer. I know that you purchased health care items at your drug store two days […]

You’ve been hearing for years that e-mail, commercial carriers like FedEx, and the lingering recession are cutting into any potential gains for the U.S. Postal Service. But now the numbers seem dramatically more ominous. The […]

All right, Jerry Brown, you’ve bucked the huge national Republican tide. After 28 years, you’ve won back an office that’s been in your family for 16 of the last 52 years. That’s got to be […]

On Wednesday, Nov. 3 the business section of the Los Angeles Times reported that the Supreme Court would review a California law that would forbid the sale of violent video games to those under age […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger made many promises while running for governor in 2003 and kept one. He made many more during the more than seven years his smoking tent sat outside his office in the state Capitol’s […]

Cynics derided him as Gov. Moonbeam, reviving the tag applied in 1977 by the late Chicago columnist Mike Royko, who later apologized for it. They said he was too old at 72 to become governor […]