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 […]

Dear Editor, SCE is raising the residential electricity rates for the poor to keep the electricity rates the same for the well-off. SCE is raising the residential electricity rates on tiers 1 and 2, which […]

The single easiest bill for California legislators to pass this year probably was Senate Bill 725, giving about 5,000 high school students the ability to graduate without taking the state’s high school exit exam, which […]

Dear Editor: The Santa Monica Disabilities Commission, comprised of eleven Santa Monica residents with and without disabilities, celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA is an accommodation and anti-discrimination statute […]

There’s something crazy when the most powerful agency in California government spends an entire year mired in scandal caused in large part by inadequate controls over the activities of its key people – and not […]