F&H Daily’s Seventh Annual Black Bart Award Week
For the past six years frequent contributors to this page Joe Mathews, John Wildermuth and I have nominated candidates for Californian of the Year in the world of politics. We name the final selection the winner of the Black Bart Award. There are no specific criteria to follow in making the selection. Each author will […]
Prop 13’s “Wonderful Life”
Christmas time brings out showings of the classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life, in which an angel shows the main character, George Bailey, what life would be like in his community if he had never been born. California has its own version on this theme, admittedly told in the drier colors of reports and numbers […]
The U.S. Supreme Court vs. Los Angeles
What does the U.S. Supreme Court have against Los Angeles? Quite a bit, to judge by recent oral arguments in a case challenging how legislative districts are drawn in the U.S. The case involves a Texas challenge to the longstanding principle that legislative districts should have the same number of people in them. And people […]
Long Neglected Road Maintenance Is Now Urgent And Expensive
California lawmakers are struggling to climb out of a deep hole. The gas tax that supports road repairs ranks among the highest in the country but the state has some of the worst roads in America. A recent report from the state Senate said 68 percent of California roads are in poor or mediocre condition, the 44th […]
Trump’s Vitriolic Pursuit of Greatness
As the 2016 high velocity presidential campaign rumbles on—a kaleidoscope of dizzying images which seems to have no central focus but plenty of entertainment value—past presidential races are beginning to look like ho-hum affairs that we might just as well have skipped entirely. During most of them we knew pretty much who the nominees would […]
Donald Trump’s Ban & Fix Plan is Best Solution
Donald Trump’s Ban & Fix is the only and best solution for anyone with good intentions that wants to immigrate to the United States regardless of religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or country of origin. The incredible outcry against Trump is clearly not about the Ban & Fix proposal but rather because the establishment refuses […]