California’s recovery has led the nation for months in producing new jobs, even though it hasn’t yet come close to replacing all those lost in the Great Recession of 2008-2011. Low natural gas prices have […]

Normally, it’s uncomfortable at best to hear a federal judge — let alone a panel of three such jurists — thunder criticism atone from the bench. But as usual, Gov. Jerry Brown is different. For […]

David Bryan, the Head of School at New Roads School in Santa Monica, has spent most of his life in the classroom. In thinking about his teaching he said, “Some of the most exciting moments […]

Last fall’s overwhelming, more than 3-1 Latino vote for President Obama has at last gotten leading Republican politicians to realize they can’t permanently treat all 11 million undocumented immigrants like criminals. Gradually, too, from possible […]

Like flowers blooming in the spring, Republican candidates for governor have begun to pop up during the last few weeks. But there’s a key difference between the folks jumping up this time and many who […]

We were driving back home to Santa Monica after sunset from a weekend in the desert. We don’t usually make that journey after dark, so maybe we were due for a few new experiences. At […]

The operators of both the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station and the nuclear waste reservation at Hanford, Wash., could not be doing better if they actually wanted to promote a new prospective ballot initiative aimed […]