Now that Jerry Brown has gone public with the second attempt of his latest turn as governor to deliver a balanced budget, it’s fair to speculate about how different things might be today if he’d […]

At a meeting of a neighborhood group just before the holidays, representatives of the Santa Monica Police Department reacted with grins when my question to them suggesting ‘stings’ to catch drivers texting or using mobile […]

The Civil Rights Movement captured the imagination of the country. It was 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King, working to get voting rights for African-Americans, planned to lead a 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, […]

When California voters begin thinking seriously next fall about the propositions they’ll vote up or down, one that’s currently circulating might stand out as eminently sensible: Return the state’s three-strikes-and-you’re-out law to its original intent. […]

My advice for the New Year is to get with somebody who knows a good massage therapist because I think our necks are going to need some serious attention. The election process has already given […]

Those several years in the last decade when actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was its Great Germanic Hope said more about the current state of California’s Republican Party than almost anything else that happened during his seven […]

It’s now all but official: The crybaby-of-the-year award for 2011 has to go to the California Republican Party for its sustained gripes about redistricting. The GOP’s latest weeping jag began when the investigative-reporting service ProPublica, […]

If California highways and parking lots of 2025 look considerably different from today’s, it will probably be because they’ll contain almost 1.5 million more hybrid cars and trucks, hydrogen-driven vehicles, and plug-in hybrids that run […]

I’m not sure what Top 10 and “Best of” lists accomplish, exactly. They are fun for writers to put together, but would you really change your opinion of a stinker movie because it started showing […]