Thomas D. Elias

Politicians have come up with myriad alleged reasons for the dismal vote turnouts seen across California in this spring’s municipal elections – not even...

It was supposed to be a $5 billion project, creating 6,500 jobs. That was the hype when Tesla Motors last summer orchestrated a five-state...

It’s a cinch Kamala Harris will have an opponent on the November 2016 ballot. Much less certain is whether her opponent will be any...

Way back in 1811, almost 40 years before California became a state, Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry engineered a congressional redistricting plan guaranteed to let...

Consider the criminal history of Bobby Beausoleil, 67, the latest follower of Charles Manson to come up for an automatic parole hearing. Among the lesser-known...

California has bled many millions of dollars because of the myriad blunders by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He probably should have remained a muscleman actor...

Condoleeza Rice, the former secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration and now a Stanford University professor, has stated very clearly she...

California attorney general Kamala Harris's agents wasted no time after this column in late January called for a criminal investigation of the former state Public...

If voters get annoyed and sick of seeing paid petition circulators outside their favorite big box stores during the next 15 months, they will...

Barely 21 percent of eligible California voters cast ballots in last fall’s election, which means 80 percent should have no complaints even if they don’t like the performances of those who were elected for the next two or four years. It’s easy to conclude this was because of apathy and ignorance. After all, polls showed 40 percent of Californians weren’t aware Gov. Brown was running. Merely 41 percent of those registered bothered to do ...