It’s a California educational reality worthy of Kafka. Our state’s leaders keep asking parents and communities to take bigger roles in making local schools better—even
I’ve figured out why Kamala Harris is leading the race for U.S. Senate. She’s the only major candidate with a real job. That was the
California’s ballot initiative process has many problems. A big one is that there are few neutral forums so that people can discuss and educate themselves
California just had another flare-up of one of its chronic diseases: Population overestimation. I’ve written about this malady before. We’re constantly overestimating how fast our
I’m that rare California bird – the high-speed rail critic who has been converted to strong supporter (with a bunch of caveats—it has to be
Your columnist is not an Olympic athlete. But last Friday I managed a serious athletic feat: playing 18 holes of golf in just 45 minutes,
I find it impossible to take Bernie Sanders seriously when he decries all the money in politics. It’s bad enough that he’s talked incessantly about
To: Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court From: Joe Mathews Re: Switch to decaf, dude Just read your dissent from a U.S. Supreme Court
Poor San Jose—so far from God, so close to San Francisco. San Jose is the 10th largest city in the United States, the third most