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....
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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: 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....
California Focus: On vaccines for seniors, a historic bait & switch
If this was an inside job aimed at stoking the recall petition drive against Newsom, it could not have been carried out more effectively....
California Focus: The big price when scofflaws don’t enforce the law
The list of California law enforcement agencies refusing to enforce current stay-at-home, crowd-size and masking orders from Gov. Gavin Newsom and county health officials numbers...
California Focus: Will Feinstein add to the musical chairs?
It now looks like an even bet, with California's senior US senator noncommittal so far....
