As one of the most challenging years we have faced in recent history is ushered out, we enter 2021 with trepidation and hope. Amid the darkest...
A political saga that began more than four decades ago came full circle last week when the state Supreme Court, including four Jerry Brown appointees, indirectly...
In November 2018, citizens voted on the 30-year Measure P parks tax initiative that would have raised our sales taxes by 3/8 of a percent to...
For decades, a cliché about California was that the weather was always sunny and mild during Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day, and snowbound...
As we toast to the hope that 2021 is better than the year just endured, let’s take a quick look in the rear-view mirror at the people...
Fresno Mayor-elect Jerry Dyer will never be confused with Joe Biden. But Biden’s presidential winning “One America” theme echoed Dyer’s “One Fresno” slogan from earlier in...
In the iconic movie “The Graduate,” a would-be mentor takes the new college graduate Dustin Hoffman aside and cryptically says, “I want to say just one...
When the state Employment Development Department released a new report on jobs this month, it had a tinge of optimism. California’s unemployment rate had dropped to 8.2% in...
SLO down, California. Even in pandemic, you move too fast. This new year, perhaps Californians should resolve to model the spirit of SLO, the acronym for...
Are teachers “too white” to get early, priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine? In a Dec. 5 New York Times article, several medical professionals suggested that decisions...
