From a Historic Winery in the North to the Reagan Library in the South, California is Burning: Who Will Pay?
The price for California’s plague of wildfires could be political or could be monetary, but political history dictates that someone pays a price for disaster. Anger and frustration is palpable around the state over endless fires threatening lives and property. The people of California know that something has gone wrong and want answers. The trouble […]
California’s Wildfire Crisis: New Call to Action Report Urges Swift Massive Response
The wildfire crisis gripping California has touched every corner of the state. Beyond the loss of lives and destruction in communities, a grim cascade of harms has unfolded for people living in both rural and urban communities: Smoke-filled air many miles from fires. Threatened water supplies. Ever increasing firefighting and recovery costs. Skyrocketing insurance bills. […]
California Republicans Reject My Vote
Republicans in California have their standards. They’d rather lose every election than win my vote. I’m not a Democrat. I’m an independent who has voted for candidates of both parties (or at least, I did before Trump). So you might think the party would want to recruit me, or at least let me vote for […]
The Shooting in Corona, California
On Sunday afternoon, June 14, 2019, at a crowded Costco store in Corona, California, an off-duty policy officer, Salvador Sanchez, shot and killed Kenneth French, a 32 year old man who was non-verbal and described by family as severely developmentally disabled. According to witnesses, French had become agitated and pushed Sanchez to the ground, while […]