November 12, 2025
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Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Flailing California GOP Knows How Bad Off It Is:

Rarely has a political party flailed in as many futile ways as California’s branch of the Republican Party. In a state where Latinos are plainly on their way to becoming the largest voting bloc, the […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Syria Refugee Vote A Roadmap To 2016 Election:

Anyone looking for a roadmap showing which of California’s 53 congressional district elections will be tight next year need look no farther than how the state’s House Democrats voted last month on a bill that […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

UC Heeds Its Critics; Will Take More Californians:

After more than three years of steadfastly denying the increased enrollment of foreign and out-of-state students could endanger the very California identity of the University of California, it’s stunning and encouraging to see the 10-campus […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

The Holidays: A Consideration:

We are in the “holiday season” now which the Grinch-ier among us might call the “Shopping Season” and those looking for a fight over the last few years might call, “The Season of the War […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

San Mateo Shows Likely Future Of California Voting:

At about 8:05 p.m. Nov. 3, anyone in San Mateo County who cared knew that its (almost) all-mail election was a resounding success. That’s when the county published the results from 68,988 ballots which arrived […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Will Trump Have GOP Wishing For A National Top-Two?:

Critics call California’s three-year-old top two primary election system a “jungle primary” because it tosses candidates of all stripes into the same pot, forcing them to speak to all voters since only the two leading […]