Justice ignored is justice denied
Now it’s Los Angeles’s turn to engage in the debate over justice reform as national attention is focused on the L. A. County district attorney’s race. Will L.A. voters keep the hard-line progressive social justice reform train rolling or stop it in its tracks? The March 3 primary high-profile event for both Los Angeles County […]
Statewide Audit of Homelessness Funding Is Necessary
In a recent press release on homelessness issued by the Governor, there needs to be a correction: “As a national homelessness crisis spreads across the West Coast and cities across the country, Governor Gavin Newsom is continuing his Administration’s comprehensive response to the crisis… The homelessness crisis did not spread “across the West Coast,” and […]
Why Did We Want an Early Primary Again?
It’s finally worked. California moved up its presidential primary, again, for 2020, and it is getting more attention from candidates and the media. The question is whether such attention is a good thing. California is in the process of living up to the old saw that when God wants to punish us, He gives us […]
Voters beware of our populist threat. It comes from the right and left
We stand at the precipice of a significant tectonic shift in our political system. Similar to the profound disruptions the newspaper, music and transportation industries underwent some years ago, our democratic system, which is designed to be a lagging social indicator, is struggling to find a working model for a more complex age. The speedy […]