Famed in the current political moment for uniformly progressive legislation and the Assembly and state Senate members who write those laws, California was very much not always in the liberal vanguard. We weren’t just the state that produced in one case and nurtured in the other Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As late as 1964,…
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Gavin Newsom was always going to win re-election this year by a big margin. It doesn’t matter how incompetent he is; it comes down to basic math. Nearly half of the state’s voters are registered Democrats, around a quarter are Republican. Registered whatevers tend to vote for their party, because that’s how it goes. Throw…
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On a night that scorers stepped aside, Kyle Lowry stepped up. More, the Miami Heat veteran point guard said, soon will be on the way. Having attempted 10 total shots in his previous three appearances after missing a week due to family reasons, Lowry closed 4 of 12 from the field in Saturday night’s 113-104…
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Those calling for news reporters to abandon objectivity might not be a majority, but they are persistent. On Twitter this week I saw someone questioning why the news media would cover a trucker convoy causing traffic problems around the country as a means of protesting COVID-19 restrictions. Another responded condescendingly that it was due to…
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Markieff Morris has moved on. That was among the first things the veteran Miami Heat forward wanted to make clear after returning Saturday night from a four-month absence due to a neck injury sustained in his Nov. 8 run-in with Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic. Closure, he said, came with the 17 minutes he played…
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When Susan Straight and I agreed to meet for this interview she sent an email asking, “What about the Cabazon Dinosaurs?” The iconic roadside attraction was the perfect halfway point between us. It was also about a mile away from the San Gorgonio Pass, with its eponymous wind farm that boasts more than 3500 electricity-producing…
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For more than half a century, American Indian tribes and their advocates tried in vain to persuade professional sports teams to drop names offensive to Native peoples. But the movement finally gained traction in recent years. Washington’s pro football team dropped its Redskins moniker in 2020 after decades of protest, and last month announced it…
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Horse racing deaths in California have been cut in half in two years and plummeted to the lowest levels since 1990 as a result of reforms implemented after dozens of deaths at Santa Anita racetrack in 2019. The California Horse Racing Board’s annual report on the state of the sport, released this month, shows 72…
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Even before Assemblyman James Ramos introduced legislation to eliminate the word “squaw” from geographic features and public places across California, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland had already established a process for reviewing and renaming such locations. Haaland, who is of American Indian descent and a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, announced in November…
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By The Associated Press The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war: LVIV, Ukraine —Kyiv Region police says a U.S. video journalist has died and another journalist was injured when they were attacked by Russian forces in Ukraine. The police force said Sunday on its official website that Russian troops opened fire on the car of…
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