Adam Schiff And Impeachment

It was telling that in the midst of his Intelligence Committee impeachment hearings, Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank rushed back to California to address the Democratic State Convention, and to bask in their cheers.  Schiff is now a national figure and there is no doubt his ultimate goal is to run statewide in California, probably […]

Why Kamala Crashed

“KAMALA HARRIS was expected to be a strong presidential candidate. She has a strong résumé as a prosecutor, district-attorney, state attorney-general and senator. She is telegenic, a good public speaker and even better interrogator, as displayed in her punchy questioning of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees. As the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican […]

Avoiding My Block Party

Is it still worth getting to know your neighbors? I wondered that recently as my neighbors organized a block party in my San Gabriel Valley neighborhood. I wasn’t looking forward to it.  After all, we’d been happily living here since 2011, and had no problems with neighbors, even though we didn’t know them well. And […]

California Pioneers Subsidized Housing for Public Employees

When it comes to affordable housing, what California’s state legislators have done epitomizes what happens when you have a government bureaucracy that serves itself instead of the public, one that is under the complete control of special interests. They have enacted laws that have made it nearly impossible for the private sector to build homes, […]