F&H Daily’s Ninth Annual Black Bart Award Week
For the past eight 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 […]
California: Ground Zero In The Battle For Congress
“Gentlemen, we fight on the Marne,” supposedly said a French general in 1914 before the historic Battle of the Marne. Well, gentleman (and ladies), in 2018 for control of the U.S. House of Representatives we fight in California. California will determine whether Democrats seize control of the House and stop the Trump agenda in its […]
Black Bart 2017: Yes!
It’s hard year to choose a Black Bart. But it’s easy to say who can’t be Black Bart: President Trump. You can’t be California’s Black Bart if you don’t have the guts to step foot in the state of California. It’s not good enough to just fly over us on your way to whipping up […]
Addressing Deferred Maintenance in National Parks Without Raising Taxes
I am a National Park Enthusiast. I have a passport that I bring with me to get stamped at each park I visit. I actually plan vacations around National Parks that I have not yet visited. This past year I added stamps from one of our busiest National Parks, The Great Smoky Mountains, and one […]
A call to action from a CEO on the front lines of the opioid crisis
My company, Alkermes, has been at work since the late 1990s developing and bringing to patients a medicine that helps them fight addiction to opioids. As we set out on that path, CEOs of larger companies urged me to reconsider that decision. They pointed out that addiction is a difficult disease with challenging patients, a […]