There was good news and bad news – and in other ways no news at all – in the latest results of standardized tests given each year to California public school students. It was, for […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The days when oil companies could credibly deny they’re gouging California drivers just because they’ve dropped pump prices a bit appear now to be over. For every measuring stick except a comparison with the price […]

It’s rather doubtful that Janet Napolitano worried much when she first heard vandals scrawled swastikas and the message “Jews to the gas chamber” inside a restroom on a University of California campus. Or, later, when […]

Many Californians now deeply distrust state government, and with good reason. Start with the Public Utilities Commission, proven to have decided multi-billion-dollar rate cases after lengthy private contacts and email exchanges between commissioners, their staff […]

State commissions, like people and corporations, rarely change unless they’re given strong motivation; sometimes change has to be forced on them. The latest evidence now demonstrates that the California Public Utilities Commission is no different. […]

My most recent column, in which I expressed some level of surprise in the fact that Santa Monica currently does not set or enforce any limit on the number of cats that you can keep […]

Just over one year from today, Californians will be focused on helping elect the next president and picking their next U.S. senator. That so-far-sedate race looks like it will boil down to either Democrat state […]