The question of recalling Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky over his sentencing decision for Stanford student Brock Turner in the notorious campus rape case has policy and political implications that ...

The Santa Clarita Valley along with cities in the Antelope and Conejo valleys often market themselves as a kind of low-cost alternative. A business in those places can enjoy the benefits of being in ...

Supporters of a split roll property tax smell opportunity in the federal tax bill. They are polling to see if the split roll can be advanced as an answer to tax deductibility changes under the ...

Clausewitz famously said war was “politics by other means.” In California, politics is water wars by other means. Although it isn’t always above the surface, below the surface everything in the state ...

(Latest in a series since March on the pandemic’s employment impacts, and rebuilding America’s job base. The previous ones are here.) What unites all of these measures, of course, is they have nothing ...

Prop 23 is mercifully short, at less than 2300 words. But it’s another meta-measure that is mostly about itself. Prop 23 is a follow-up to the failed Prop 8 from 2018. It’s another attempt by the ...

Disputes between state and local governments are nothing new. Indeed, the California constitution was amended long ago to ensure against state mandates on locals unless accompanied by complete ...

California is fortunate to be the home to the most productive regions in the world for manufacturing and goods movement. According to 2018 statistics, California manufacturers lead the nation in ...

The California Legislature fumbled a chance to boost economic recovery in the state by choosing the easy path: business-as-usual. Facing the three horsemen of the CApocalypse – pandemic, economic ...

Since intermittent electricity from wind and solar cannot provide continuous uninterruptable electricity, the state continues to rely on the Southwest and Northwest states for its power, and continues ...

A new way of life has come to America and Los Angeles. It is caused by the Coronavirus. It has devastated countless lives and restricted our Freedoms and Liberties and our Pursuit of Happiness. All of ...

The movement to defund police or abolish police departments altogether, issues generally ignored prior to the killing of George Floyd, have gained visibility and momentum with the massive protests ...