OP-ED Articles

Is it political vengeance or merely a Republican President trying to make budget cuts on everything that’s not military? That’s the real question about President Trump’s first budget as it moves through congressional committees en route to becoming reality. It’s a question that reverberates especially on the West Coast, where not just California, but Oregon and Washington, too, voted heavily … Read More

Did you know that drowning is the No. 1 cause of death for kids ages 1-4 and the second for kids ages 5-9? Many imagine a drowning to take place in an ocean, lake or in the deep end of the swimming pool. In fact, most happen within six feet of the pool wall when caregivers are not more than … Read More

There’s a good chance that using union dues for politics will become harder within a year or two. One thing for sure: Big labor will not easily accept that kind of new reality. Three times in the past 15 years, ballot initiative campaigns led by conservative Republicans tried unsuccessfully to truncate the power and influence of California’s labor unions, both … Read More

@TheGussReport – Just when you thought City Atty. Mike Feuer’s office had made enough poor decisions in the Wayne Spindler gun case, his spokesman Rob Wilcox and prosecutor Eugene Hall, Jr. dug deeper. Doing so may cost the taxpayers dearly. Last week in www.CityWatchla.com, I wrote about how Mr. Feuer’s dubious gun charge against Mr. Spindler fizzled out in court.  I … Read More

Shards of sanity may be making a comeback among the loosely strung together minds of shaky-ankled leftists. When the red-eyed Los Angeles Times declined yesterday to report Congressman Brad Sherman’s drunken sally into a netherworld, normal people read this as an encouraging sign. The day after Bozo Sherman filed articles of impeachment against President Trump, he eluded every paddy wagon … Read More

California teachers received the largest average pay increase in the nation last year, about four times the national average, according to a new report. The report, Ranking of the States 2016 and Estimates of School Statistics 2017, was published in May by the National Education Assn. It annually tracks trends year over year and compares states on a number of … Read More

Los Angeles County’s sky-high sales tax will rise not once but twice this year. In recent elections, Angelenos voted two new tax hikes upon themselves — one to fund transportation (Measure M) and the other to fight homelessness (Measure H). As a result, the county’s 8.75 percent tax rate jumped to 9.25 percent on July 1. It’ll rise even further … Read More

Dateline Sacramento — Even those Capitol observers who are aware of the degree to which the Democratic-controlled Legislature is in the tank for public-sector unions might be shocked by the latest bill that is making its way to the governor’s office. Legislators are about to require that private-sector workers in the home-care industry provide a wide range of personal information … Read More

Dateline Dayton — Since our granddaughter’s boyfriend was here from Michigan, we started celebrating the 4th of July on Monday evening, after I got home from work.  Pauline and I were joined by our daughters, Darlene and Lisa, family members, our son Chris, and Heather’s boyfriend Kyle.  We fixed hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill. Along with chips, potato … Read More

L.A. Watchdog — On Monday afternoon of June 19, the Board of Water and Power Commissioners sent us a notice that they were holding a special meeting on the following day, at 11:30, to approve the new contract between the Dept. of Water and Power and the IBEW, its domineering union led by campaign funding Union Bo$$ Brian d’Arcy. On … Read More