‘We Hope They Die’…The Demise of Common Decency
I was deeply saddened and disturbed to learn about the protestors that stood outside of St. Francis Hospital in Lynwood chanting ‘we hope they die’ while two of our brave Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies lay wounded following an unprovoked ambush-style shooting in Compton. What is happening in our community today where our first responders, […]
Put the Legislature in an NBA-Style Bubble
The Capitol and the blocks around it often feel like a bubble, especially for those of us who visit from that faraway place called the Rest of California. Now it’s time to make it a real bubble, so the legislature can do its work. The California legislature finished its session without doing essential business on […]
Census deadline approaches
The unremitting pandemic and economic crises of 2020 have overshadowed what would normally have been a dominant event of community action: the decennial census. Most of you are probably generally aware of the census, but few of you likely know that the census will conclude at the end of this month. The census is more […]
California Initiative Editorial Scorecard
For this 2020 edition of the scorecard, we track editorials on the 12 ballot measures that California voters will decide on Tuesday, November 3. This year’s editorial scorecard is based on circulation data from the Alliance for Audited Media for 22 newspaper outlets: