OP-ED Articles

At the very moment when California’s largest utility company was being assessed a $14 million fine for failing to report discovery of flawed records on its gas pipelines, that same company in 2014 began asking for well over $1 billion in rate increases to pay for repairs to the very same pipeline system. This is Pacific Gas & Electric, the … Read More

Fellow Americans, Watch this link from Steve Harvey’s Sunday night television show, “Little Big Shots.”  http://www.raredr.com/news/LCA-national-anthem Gavin Stevens is a blind seven-year old boy who belts out the National Anthem with patriotic love and passion. Everyone in the audience is standing and proudly holding small American flags. You can bet the family farm that not one person believes that he or she is waving a placard, handbill, … Read More

City Manager’s Office Innovative Parking Garage Mayor Jim Clarke participated in the ribbon cutting last Friday for the new automated parking garage in the Helms Bakery District, 8758 Venice Blvd.  The project was constructed by AUTOParkit.  To access the garage, drivers enter through a traditional garage door, turn off their car, and walk a few steps to a kiosk where … Read More

I spent years waiting for my television to break. No such luck. Yes, I hoped it would break so I could replace it with a 3-D TV. As you may know, after months of watching 3-D movies on my virtual reality headset, I purchased a system far better than a 3-D TV. My new 3-D movie projection system is enabling … Read More

Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans, Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of the Veterans Revolution. Sunday will be our 469th consecutive Rally to “Save our Veterans Land” and to “Bring Our Homeless Veterans Home.” On Aug. 29, 2013, our peaceful, non-violent protests led to a federal judgment against the VA for engaging in nine real estate deals with non-Veteran entities … Read More

Not that far past the age of 21, I can remember back to the good ol’ days, seven weeks ago, when it was a racist sin to criticize a black politician. Overnight, from Jan. 19 to Jan, 20, the law was flipped – by President Obama during his final hour in office. He made it mandatory to rip on every … Read More

Dateline Dayton – A whirlwind week began when Pauline and I went to a visitation at a funeral home in Pleasant Hill and we welcome our daughter Darlene and granddaughter Heather from Michigan I took Friday off so the four of us could run errands. Not incidentally, we inspected their new condo to see what still needed to be done.  … Read More

Purely innocent thoughts are ambling through my mind on a languorous but political morning after Election Day: Speaking of narcissistic presidents covered with thin, almost see-through, skin and outsized egos, only one mug comes to mind. During the slightly rigged campaign of 2012, Mr. Obama’s shameless post-Benghazi motto was, “whatever it takes to get me re-elected.” This included repeatedly lying … Read More

The Guss Report — On Friday, Dakota Smith, writing for the LA Times, referenced my article in CityWatch in her report on the bigamy allegation swirling around District 9 City Councilmember Curren Price. Ms. Smith noted that Mr. Price, whose opponent Jorge Nuño was endorsed by the Times for today’s primary election, was scrambling to prove that he is actually divorced from … Read More

Everyone capable of gripping a pencil with a maximum of one hand and capable of requiring fewer than two syllables to pronounce d-o-g, agrees that racism in America has shrunk to infinitesimal levels. A magnifying glass is needed to identify it. Except among our liberal friends. Routinely, liberals contend contemporary racism is scarcely has retreated since the mid-19th century, that … Read More