The well-documented corruption in various wings of California state government shows few signs of abating: Even though Gov. Brown’s latest questionable appointees to the state’s powerful Public Utilities Commission have been held up, no one has yet been penalized for several fix-is-in decisions there that are costing consumers billions of dollars. Energy Commission members who handed out many millions of … Read More

If any legislative bill was a no-brainer for easy passage and then approval by Gov. Brown, it was Senate Bill 568, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara of East Los Angeles. No one at all, in Sacramento or anywhere else, argues with the premise behind this new law: California has long had far less influence in choosing America’s presidents … Read More

Most attention given putative new laws passed in the waning moments of this year’s legislative session in Sacramento has gone to items like a “sanctuary state” compromise. This would make California safer for non-criminal undocumented immigrants and measures to move the state’s next presidential primary up into early March. But the one bill with the most potential to improve this … Read More

Buried in the back pages of newspapers, not even making it onto many television and radio news programs this summer, was the news that Gov. Brown again refused parole a member of the murderous Manson Family gang. This, while a parole board denied freedom to another. These actions raised more questions than they answered. Should heinous killers like Charles Manson … Read More

There no longer doubt is about whether anti-Semitism exists in America and on California college campuses. Even before the racist, white supremacist violence of mid-August in Charlottesville, regents of the University of California recognized this, declaring unanimously last year that “Anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at (U.C.).” It’s possible that statement and … Read More