UC’s New President has an Opportunity to Create a Level Playing Field for Political Thought
Congratulations to Dr. Michael V. Drake chosen as the new president of the University of California. Dr. Drake has pledged to face issues head-on acknowledging the difficult challenges ahead dealing with the pandemic, climate change, and social justice. Hopefully, he will apply his well-regarded reputation championing diversity and equity to political thought as well. Most […]
Why Didn’t LA Government Agencies Uncover City Council Corruption?
The fact that federal authorities, rather than local investigators, arrested Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar in a huge racketeering-bribery scheme speaks poorly for the county and city watchdogs who are supposed to keep politics and government clean. Where was the district attorney’s Public Integrity Division, created almost 20 years ago to root out corruption […]
Will Defund the Police Movement Revive Thoughts of LA Secession?
An op-ed in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend by Jon Wiener looked back at the Los Angeles beach community of Venice attempting to secede from the City of Los Angeles 50 years ago over LAPD actions that secession organizers said terrorized the community. The article rekindled a thought I had when the movement […]
California and the Need for “Order”
In the current political environment, the phrase “law and order” has been entangled with the President Donald Trump’s campaign to clamp down on protestors and its implied racial overtones. But focusing on the second half of the equation, “order,” and what it represents, is becoming a problem for Governor Gavin Newsom and California authorities when […]
Celebrate Safely!
The editors at Fox and Hounds Daily wish you a safe and joyous celebration this holiday weekend. We will resume or regular postings on Monday, July 6th.
Environmentalists Seek a Full Repeal of Proposition 13
California businesses operate under some of the strictest clean air standards in the world, and these regulated businesses have largely continued their operations here thanks to Proposition 13 – the reform measure that provides certainty and affordability in property taxes. Unfortunately, environmentalists recently announced support for a November ballot measure that would repeal property tax […]
Removing School Police Could Create Liability Issues for Districts
An outgrowth of the civil rights protests that target policing is the effort to close down police presence in schools. While the resolutions ending police responsibilities at schools speak to racial concerns and alternative safety programs, ending cooperation with school police not only raises safety fears but liability issues for the school districts. School districts […]
Call it the Do-Over Ballot
Label the coming election on ballot measures the Do-Over Ballot. Many of the propositions headed for the November ballot are intended to re-do previous actions taken by voters and/or legislators. Removing some property tax limits, changing other property tax rules, undoing a ban on affirmative action, toughening criminal penalties—all these ballot measures are intended to […]
SB 1383 Should Be Rejected
As part of the recent budget deal struck last weekend between the Legislature and the Governor, SB 1383 (Jackson) would create a massive expansion of protected leave under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA). The bill came into print at 9pm on June 23 and was heard about the same time a day later in […]