Same Publication, Different Headlines on Prop 13
The Los Angeles Times ran columnist Michael Hiltzik’s story on the Legislative Analyst’s Office new report on Proposition 13 Monday but someone glancing at the print headline as opposed to the online headline would come away with a different impression. The print headline read: Prop 13’s effects remain unclear. The digital headline read: Four decades later, […]
A Very Dark U.S. Senate Debate
In saying the one and only scheduled debate of our Democrat-on-Democrat U.S Senate contest was dark, I’m not talking about the rhetoric or the visions of the future. I’m literally talking about TV picture. The debate took place on the lovely hillside campus of Cal State Los Angeles, a place with many beautiful event spaces. […]
Rent Control: The Failed Concept is Rearing its Ugly Head, Again
In response to California’s housing crisis, housing advocates are calling for price controls – specifically a cap on rents. It’s a popular reprise: “Blame it on the landlords” and hold them responsible. The critics of high rents say those who provide the housing are guilty of manipulating circumstances and are lining their pockets. Indeed, the […]
Janet Napolitano Rebukes Speech Police on College Campuses
With a single op-ed, UC chief Janet Napolitano has become an unlikely ally of conservative and traditionalist critics of the speech-policing movement among campus crusaders nationwide. In a Boston Globe op-ed entitled “It’s time to free speech on campus again,” Napolitano unburdened herself of judgments she appeared to have been forming over the past several years in […]
Virtual landlord unlocks campaign websites—for a fee
Andrew Naylor was working at a digital advertising firm in Silicon Valley when the “a-ha” moment struck. It was 2008, and money—more than $83 million—was gushing into the advertising world as Californians prepared to vote on Prop. 8, the measure to limit marriage to heterosexual couples (later ruled unconstitutional.) “I saw what was happening with […]