Wright Is Wrong But So Is The Application Of The Law
Sen. Roderick Wright should resign from office now that he has been convicted and sentenced for fraudulently claiming that he lived in his district – then he should appeal his conviction. I can’t say that he has legal grounds for an appeal on the facts of the case but common sense, often lost when laws […]
Chasing Freedom: The Human Element of Immigration
The current immigration crisis in the United States has left many Americans with unanswered questions regarding the impact illegal immigration has on our national economy and how our leaders plan to adequately address this growing problem. Widespread confusion has led to cultural unrest that has proliferated throughout our schools, businesses and communities. I was born […]
Oregon Citizens Sniff Out the Top Two Primary
Could the Citizens Initiative Review saved California from the horrors of the top two primary? Hard to know, but the thought occurred as I read what Oregon’s CIR process – during which a representative jury of regular voters spends a week talking with people about a ballot initiative and then makes it finding – produced […]
Southern California Becoming Less Family-Friendly
The British Talmudic scholar Abraham Cohen noted that, throughout history, children were thought of as “a precious loan from God to be guarded with loving and fateful care.” Yet, increasingly and, particularly, here in Southern California, we are rejecting this loan, and abandoning our role as parents. This, of course, is a process seen around […]
Small Biz Rightly Honored by Highway Designation
Assembly Concurrent Resolution 118, which names a stretch of Highway 99 in Sutter County the “California Small Business Owners’ Highway,” has officially been chaptered; making it the first highway sign in California history to recognize the significance of the small business community. The small business community is too important to not get this type of […]