California Focus: Flash mob bandits a reckoning for Newsom
The bandits raiding high-end stores across the state have presented Newsom with both opportunity and peril.
California Focus
California Focus: Wildfire insurance crisis hits ever harder
The availability of homeowners’ insurance and the fire coverage it provides is becoming increasingly scarce for some Californians.
California Focus: Disaster probes on land, sea show vast differences
Contrast investigators examining recent disasters on water to state officials who regulate the electric companies behind state wildfires.
California Focus: Eastern warning for California Democrats
California Democrats sometimes forget who gave them their current dominant status in the state government.
California Focus: Let’s quit naming things after people
True saints are rarities in America and everywhere else.
California Focus: When ideology collides with reality
There can be few better examples of ideologically convinced politicians running head-on into reality than AB 1346.
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.
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.
