A Fine Mess in San Diego – And A Democratic Socialist Congressman
After an investigation that seemed to take forever, a federal grand jury has now indicted San Diego Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter and his wife Margaret for illegally spending a quarter million dollars of campaign funds for personal use and lying about it. The indictment reveals a long history of misusing campaign funds, and includes such […]
Grow the Economy, Vote No on Prop 6
Economies don’t grow if goods and services can’t move. For years in California, governors and state legislatures deferred maintenance and repairs on the state’s bridges and roads. Predictably, California’s 400,000 miles of roads crumbled. Potholes proliferated. Bridges and overpasses up and down the state became unsafe. Public transit improvements lagged. Traffic became worse as highway […]
Police Accountability in California? What A Concept
When I returned to my home state of California as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times in the year 2000, I was in for a surprise when I reported on a police shooting in Compton. The cops didn’t have to tell me the name of the person who did the shooting. As a young […]
The Not So Independent Bank of Los Angeles
Charter Amendment B: Shall the City Charter be amended to allow the City to establish a municipal financial institution or bank? The proponents of the November ballot measure that would allow the City of Los Angeles to establish a bank tell us that it would be an independent entity, free of political interference, because it […]