November 12, 2025
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Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Condoms-In-Porn A Lock For 2016 Ballot:

The ballot initiative carnival predicted when it became clear how few valid voter signatures would be needed to qualify measures for next year’s November ballot is now officially underway. Backers of parental notification before teenage […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Latino Fears On Loss Of Clout May Be Correct:

Fear and anxiety have been in the air around California’s Latino political leaders in the weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear arguments next fall in a Texas case challenging the 51-year-old […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Time For Sanity In Sanctuary City Policies:

There is no need – at least not yet – for total abandonment of the humane aspects of the immigration “sanctuary” laws now on the books in 276 American cities, counties and states. But in […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Donald Trump As The New Pete Wilson:

As Donald Trump, real estate mogul, TV star and Republican presidential candidate, made a whirlwind mid-July trip around the West in his private, blue-painted Boeing 767 jet, it almost seemed like he was trying to […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Santa Monica Pier Group Pressure To Perform:

“What time is it?” In answer to the trademark question posited by funk band The Time’s leader Morris Day, it’s time for the Santa Monica Pier’s Twilight Concert Series of the summer. That’s the good […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Will Prop. 47 Turn Out To Be A Fire Hazard?:

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.” Robert Burns in his 1785 poem “To a Mouse.” Bobby Burns couldn’t have known it, but as California approaches what many experts forecast […]