Author: Joe Mathews

Finding Your Irvine

Late in this year’s strangest California film, “Palm Springs,” middle-aged Roy (J.K. Simmons) sits in his Irvine backyard and advises Nyles (Andy Samberg) on coping

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The First Question for Gavin

Gov. Newsom’s COVID-19 briefing on November 23 was not confidence-inducing. The governor couldn’t hear reporters questions for most of this press briefing. But reporters could.

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Enough Dead to Fill Forest Lawn

If you’re having a hard time processing the scale of death produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, here’s a California alternative for wrapping your mind around

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We Are All Unincorporated Now

We are all unincorporated now. Unincorporated communities—which don’t have their own municipal governments—live at the mercies of their counties, who may or may not provide

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If You “Take Out California”

California may not need to declare independence from the Union. Leading Republicans may just kick us out. They’re already claiming we’re not real Americans, whose

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