Complying with the Oath of Office for an Elected Los Angeles City Official
Some of us have witnessed an elected L.A. City Officials sworn-in to serve in public office. Either in person or via media. There is all the pomp and circumstance that follows the election and then the work begins. I remember my entry into the political arena and the Oath I truly believed in and with […]
California’s Choice: New and Enriched Public Programs or Freer Private Enterprise?
Change is coming to California following the double whammy of a pandemic eruption and police reform protests. Responses to the extraordinary dual events will initially flow into California’s current cultural and political liberal tide—a move toward more government involvement in our lives and more spending. History tells us that government officials and agencies enlarge their […]
How to sabotage a recovery: Raise taxes
Even before Covid-19, many Californians were struggling with the high cost of living here. The long-time willingness of many Californians to pay the “sunshine tax” premium for living in a state with great weather, universities, entrepreneurial culture, and lifestyle has eroded in the face of high costs of daily life. Things have gone from bad […]
Cancel Culture Finds the SF Museum of Modern Art
A “white supremacist” organized exhibits for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for nearly 20 years? How did his hateful bigotry go undetected for so long in a city whose vanity is in large part fueled by its Wokeness? Gary Garrels, the museum’s senior curator of painting and sculpture, resigned earlier this month over […]
Mandate diversity? California bill would ban all-white corporate boards
All-white corporate boards would be prohibited in California under a bill in the Legislature that follows in the footsteps of a controversial law that mandated women in corporate boardrooms. More than 600 publicly held companies with California headquarters would be required to have at least one person of color serving on their corporate boards by […]
Taking Down Kamala
Democrats are well aware of their long history of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory; you can ask President Dukakis, President Gore, President Kerry and of course President Hillary Clinton all about it. Now with Joe Biden on the cusp of what looks like an easy win, many Democrats are working full time to […]
Kamala Harris May Be The One!
Speculation about whom the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden will tap to join him on the ticket has reached fever pitch with the announcement expected in days. I’m going out on a limb but I predict it will be California’s junior Senator Kamala Harris. Her less well known but closest rival could be Pres. Barack […]
California Traffic Misses You
By CALIFORNIA TRAFFIC, as told to JOE MATHEWS Admit it. You miss me, don’t you? I know you’ve never liked me, and for that I’ve never blamed you. You Californians like to live your lives fast, and I’m all about slowing you down. So I try not to take it personally that you complain about […]
Sign Language Interpreters and Realtime Captioners Need a Professional Exemption in AB 2257
Although the Americans with Disabilities Act recently celebrated its 30th year, the Act’s promise to provide equal access to people with disabilities remains a work in progress. For Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities the fight for communication access is still a daily struggle in America’s verbose 24/7 culture. Now, due to a new law, […]
Extremist Proposals will not help California’s economy get back on its feet
It doesn’t take long reading this site to see how our society is absorbing three crises: COVID-19, the economic meltdown and the long-overdue move for racial equality. What those crises have wrought is job loss, overriding fear, educational disruption and in some cases, overblown rhetoric. We see that rhetoric surrounding radical environmental change and new […]