California Focus: Nursing homes face new life-or-death crisis
Vaccines did not relieve the other, ongoing crises still taking their toll in nursing homes and related facilities.
Thomas D. Elias
California Focus: Don’t ‘Californicate’ us, other states again saying
Memo to all those Californians thinking seriously of moving to another state. Your new neighbors might not be so happy to see you move in.
California Focus: Sacramento Democrats dump Prop. 13 reforms
For more than 40 years, Democrats in Sacramento have talked fervently about reform, but time and again they’ve done nothing.
California Focus: Newly noticed damage from fires and drought
Unseen, less obvious ill effects are turning out to be about as pernicious as the more visible direct effects seen on TV news shows nightly.
California Focus: Newsom survives, but may be weakened
This recall election wasn’t as easy as the final numbers make it seem, and the governor made myriad mistakes.
California Focus: Expect a rebellion against housing bills
Senate Bills 9 and 10 are aimed at ending single-family zoning in most parts of California and allowing far more housing density.
California Focus: Voter turnout key to Newsom survival
All it will take for Gavin Newsom to survive is for most people who have voted for him before to vote for him again.
California Focus: COVID numbers show state beats Florida, Texas by a lot
Of the three, California has been by far the healthiest place to live over the last 18 months and Florida the least.
California Focus: Cash bail issue is the key to state’s 2nd-biggest recall
George Gascon, the embattled district attorney of Los Angeles County, is the No. 2 target among California officials.
California Focus: On crime, is recall side barking up wrong tree?
Midyear numbers from some of the most heavily populated parts of California demonstrate there really is no new statewide crime wave.
