New EPA is a threat to state’s smog standards
Californians interested in keeping this state’s toughest-in-the-world standards for automotive pollution heaved a sigh of relief when the federal Environmental Protection Agency in early August...
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Californians in Congress must back up hurricane aid
California remains the most disaster-prone state in America, so it behooves Californians in Congress to get behind every hurricane aid package they can this fall....
Heinous killers like Manson should never, ever go free
Buried in the back pages of newspapers and not even making it onto many television and radio news programs this summer was the news that...
Imams could worsen campus anti-Semitism
There is no longer any doubt about whether anti-Semitism exists in America and on California college and university campuses....
On Feinstein, classic age discrimination
None of the host of ultra-liberal Democrats who would love to succeed her makes the direct argument that at 84 fellow Democrat Dianne Feinstein is...
Whose UC is it? Still a valid question
As a new school year opens on the nine campuses of the University of California, it’s a fair question for parents of prospective students to...
State vaccination law begins to show results
The last year saw no major outbreaks of measles or any of the other nine potentially fatal diseases against which California public schoolchildren must be...
Brown’s email problem could sully his legacy
An email controversy that’s dogged him for almost two years may sully the grand record of accomplishment the governor wants to take with him into...
Cap and trade shows the California difference
No other state has a cap-and-trade system anything like California’s for limiting and, in the long run, vastly reducing production of greenhouse gases behind climate...
The truth on the state’s economy — it’s healthy
No one can seem to stop Texans from trying to denigrate California....
State voting boss right to resist federal demands
So much for the old-fashioned secret ballot....
Newsom loses ‘sure thing’ standing
For a long time, it seemed Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unspoken (at least publicly) agreement with Sen. Kamala Harris would bear the fruit he intended...