California Focus: New recall has similarities to Davis dismissal in 2003
The list of candidates to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom will surely be interesting, but perhaps not as odd as in 2003.
Thomas D. Elias
California Focus: The great myth of a California exodus
The “big lie” technique has been used effectively and persistently over the last few years to create this perception.
California Focus: On smog standards, GM a classic bandwagon jumper
The giant automaker almost immediately after the election dropped its role in depriving California of its key clean air authority.
California Focus: Ethnic studies battle moves to local school districts
After a two-year battle, California now has a model ethnic studies curriculum for its elementary and high schools. But no one knows how many schools
California Focus: Anti-Asian violence shows folly of defunding
There’s an old saying about traditions: Abandon a tradition, it tells us, and you will soon learn why it became one.
California Focus: This recall could become Newsom vs. Trump
California’s GOP appears bent on making a fall recall election a symbolic vote on the political revival of the former president.
California Focus: Think twice before heading to Texas
Former Californians who moved because of lower real estate and energy prices suddenly learned why their big new homes cost so little.
California Focus: Faulconer looks like main GOP hope for a breakthrough
The former San Diego mayor hopes to take a page from the playbooks of both Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
California Focus: Ironic recall bears likely pluses for Gov. Newsom
A recall could make him a political hero and a martyr to many members of this state’s dominant Democratic Party.
California Focus: State vows to end vaccine discrimination, but can it?
The entire enterprise looks like an exercise in economic discrimination and classism.
