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Ask Rusty – Survivors Benefit vs. Retirement Benefit

November 16, 2017

November 16, 2017

Dear Rusty:  I am a 58-year-old widow, born in 1958.  My husband, born in 1953, was collecting Social Security Disability benefits...

How About Incentives in Bullet Train Contracts?

November 16, 2017

November 16, 2017

By Tom Elias Reports rise almost weekly about missed construction deadlines and other time problems for California’s embattled bullet train...

31st Israel Film Festival Kicks off at the Saban Theatre

November 14, 2017

November 14, 2017

By Beverly Cohn Israeli filmmakers, actors, directors, and producers, walked the red carpet at the beautiful Art Deco Saban Theatre...

Partisan Schisms The Result Of One-Party Rule

November 13, 2017

November 13, 2017

By Tom Elias   Some of the 25 surviving Republicans in the state Assembly – a politically endangered species in...

Prop. 54: A Ballot Initiative That Worked

November 9, 2017

November 9, 2017

By Tom Elias There’s nothing politicians and lobbyists in this state hate more than the ballot initiative process to which...

Hot Flash: My War Against Adult Acne

November 6, 2017

November 6, 2017

By Barbara Bishop   Wrinkles, frown lines and acne? It just isn’t fair. A couple of years ago, I started...

Center Stage: Up Close & Personal With “Novitiate” Writer/Director Maggie Betts

November 6, 2017

November 6, 2017

By Beverly Cohn   Documentary filmmaker Maggie Betts has written and directed her first narrative feature “Novitiate,” a riveting, captivating...

Dems Can’t Assume Trump Means Automatic Congress Wins

November 6, 2017

November 6, 2017

By Tom Elias   It’s not by accident that Jeff Denham, David Valadao, Devin Nunes, Ed Royce, Mimi Walters, Darrell...

Is the Mojo Changing?

November 6, 2017

November 6, 2017

By Steve Stajich   Immediately following the 2016 presidential election, there was a lot of frustration and mewling about what...

SMar.t.-An Electrifying Proposal

November 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

A colleague, an ardent environmentalist and enthusiastic supporter of electric vehicles, recently tried to install an electric-car charger in the...