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Column: Newsom is acting more like a governor should. Will that boost his White House prospects?
1 day, 19 hours ago

Column: Newsom is acting more like a governor should. Will that boost his White House prospects?

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom’s recent appearance at Redding’s Lassen College was part of a stepped-up focus on the red reaches of California. In promotional materials, the governor’s office describes the program as a “bottom-up strategy for creating good-paying jobs and regional economic development.” The plan follows lengthy consultation with locals in 13 parts of the state and aims to streamline programs and …

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Column: Trump’s promised deportations are on a collision course with a California economy built on hypocrisy
1 day, 19 hours ago

Column: Trump’s promised deportations are on a collision course with a California economy built on hypocrisy

LA Times  

This country has always had a hypocritical relationship with the undocumented workers who keep America’s agricultural, construction and hospitality industries humming. Can’t get more essential than that.” In the mid-1980s, when he managed cantaloupe fields, federal government pilots would fly small planes over the state’s cropland looking for large crews of workers, he recalled. The pilots would radio information about …

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Column: Stop conflating 'Latino' with 'immigrant'
3 days, 19 hours ago

Column: Stop conflating 'Latino' with 'immigrant'

LA Times  

Following Donald Trump’s electoral victory, and the inevitable blame game among blue voters, it was Latinos, more than any other group, that emerged as the face of the turncoats who had thrown the Democratic Party under the bus. “It is madness to spend capital trying to help people who are no longer a major part of your electoral coalition.” Last’s …

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Column: For many Black women, Kamala Harris’ defeat felt like a betrayal. Now what?
5 days, 19 hours ago

Column: For many Black women, Kamala Harris’ defeat felt like a betrayal. Now what?

LA Times  

Teja Smith worked for years to ensure Donald Trump never returned to the White House. “Get ready,” Smith posted on Instagram, “because we’re about to see how much America hates Black women.” The election result on Nov. 5 — just about 100 days after Harris’ overnight transformation — left Smith feeling sadly, grimly vindicated. “It’s draining,” Smith said of seeing …

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Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster
5 days, 19 hours ago

Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster

LA Times  

Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. “I’m not in a wheelchair yet,” said Lane, who uses leg braces and crutches, “but it’s heading that way.” The idea that anyone would question the polio vaccine now, she said, “makes me nuts.” Last week, the New York Times reported that in 2022, Robert …

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Column: Citrus in December is a SoCal tradition. Enjoy your harvest while you can
5 days, 19 hours ago

Column: Citrus in December is a SoCal tradition. Enjoy your harvest while you can

LA Times  

Trees heavy with citrus fruits that ripen as winter progresses are as much a Southern California holiday tradition as tamales and the Rose Parade. Every December in Southern California, the days get shorter yet brighter — and it’s not Christmas lights or the shifting sun that make the region shine. Trees heavy with fruits that ripen through the color spectrum …

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Column: The U.S. economy is doing very well. But don’t give too much credit to Biden — or Trump
6 days, 19 hours ago

Column: The U.S. economy is doing very well. But don’t give too much credit to Biden — or Trump

LA Times  

One of Donald Trump’s closing campaign arguments was that he would deliver a new “golden age” for America. That’s fitting insofar as Trump has rapidly eclipsed the current president, Joe Biden, in setting expectations and even an agenda for America at home and abroad. Don’t take my word for it: The cover of a special issue of the Economist in …

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Column: Kash Patel, Trump’s FBI pick, would turn the agency into the Federal Bureau of Retribution
1 week ago

Column: Kash Patel, Trump’s FBI pick, would turn the agency into the Federal Bureau of Retribution

LA Times  

Kash Patel, shown campaigning for Donald Trump this year, has vowed to purge the FBI of anyone who doesn’t fully support Trump and to prosecute those he accuses of conspiring to undermine the president-elect. “There’s a lot that can fit within that, but it’s not limitless.” “If Patel goes to his deputies and says, ‘Let’s open an investigation into Liz …

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Column: What the sexual assault charges against Sean Combs, the Alexander brothers and others reveal
1 week, 1 day ago

Column: What the sexual assault charges against Sean Combs, the Alexander brothers and others reveal

LA Times  

Alon Alexander, 37, top, and his twin brother, Oren, bottom, in a Miami courtroom after being charged with sex trafficking and rape. “I don’t always use that term because it is too vague,” said Wayne State University social psychologist Antonia Abbey, whose research focuses on male sexual violence and aggression against women. “I will use ‘patriarchy’ or ‘misogyny,’ the idea …

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Column: He refused the COVID vaccine. He exiled himself from baseball. Was it worth it?
1 week, 1 day ago

Column: He refused the COVID vaccine. He exiled himself from baseball. Was it worth it?

LA Times  

Benny Gallo stands at a ball field in Encinitas, Calif., in May 2022. “The energy of baseball, and the people that are in baseball, that’s really contagious,” Gallo said. The Nationals had advised employees they would consider “reasonable accommodation” for employees with a “sincerely held religious belief.” In his lawsuit, Gallo cited in part his convictions “as a devout Christian …

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Column: How organized labor boosted California Democrats — by not talking like Democrats
1 week, 1 day ago

Column: How organized labor boosted California Democrats — by not talking like Democrats

LA Times  

Labor leader Lorena Gonzalez, center, helped devise an election strategy that shunned partisanship and focused instead on the value of hard work and the failings of a “do-nothing” Congress. “The usual go-to, the top-of-the-ticket discussion with our union members, wasn’t going to get us anywhere,” Gonzalez said last week in a lengthy conversation at the Labor Federation’s downtown Sacramento headquarters. …

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Column: Kamala Harris should run for governor — but only if she wants to solve California’s problems
1 week, 1 day ago

Column: Kamala Harris should run for governor — but only if she wants to solve California’s problems

LA Times  

Vice President Kamala Harris has not publicly said if she plans to run for California governor in 2026. Then he ran for California governor two years later — as Harris could — and was beaten by Democratic incumbent Pat Brown. If Harris became governor in January 2027, she’d almost immediately need to begin running for president in the 2028 election. …

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LA Times billionaire owner killed op-ed that was critical of Trump’s cabinet picks, report says
1 week, 3 days ago

LA Times billionaire owner killed op-ed that was critical of Trump’s cabinet picks, report says

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong killed an opinion …

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Column: Good riddance to the merger of grocers Albertsons and Kroger, which would have cost you money
1 week, 3 days ago

Column: Good riddance to the merger of grocers Albertsons and Kroger, which would have cost you money

LA Times  

The inside stories of messy marriage breakups have been an entertainment staple since even before Tolstoy observed that “every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So let’s thank the supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons, whose $24.6-billion merger has collapsed amid mutual recriminations, for their outstanding contribution to the genre. — Federal Judge Adrienne Nelson, blocking the Kroger/Albertsons merger …

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Column: Gavin Newsom’s failure to close Aliso Canyon is hurting us all
1 week, 4 days ago

Column: Gavin Newsom’s failure to close Aliso Canyon is hurting us all

LA Times  

Environmental activists and San Fernando Valley residents urge Gov. Linda Serizawa, who was tapped by Newsom to lead the utilities commission’s Public Advocates Office, said state officials have to be “very careful about setting unrealistic expectations” when it comes to closing Aliso. SoCalGas spokesperson Erica Berardi said in an email that the utility agrees with state officials that Aliso Canyon …

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Column: Trump-friendly billionaires are taking aim at the federal agencies that protect workers and consumers
1 week, 4 days ago

Column: Trump-friendly billionaires are taking aim at the federal agencies that protect workers and consumers

LA Times  

“If the law is against you, talk about the evidence. Amazon filed its case against the NLRB in September in San Antonio federal court, where three of the five judges are Republican-appointees but appeals also go to the 5th Circuit, even though the company’s dispute with the NLRB involves Teamster-represented workers in Staten Island, N.Y. Amazon is seeking an injunction …

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Column: Is it time for California’s Latino Legislative Caucus to let in Republicans?
1 week, 4 days ago

Column: Is it time for California’s Latino Legislative Caucus to let in Republicans?

LA Times  

State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil at the Capitol in Sacramento in 2023. She also mentioned the Inland Empire’s 58th Assembly District, where first-time candidate Leticia Castillo beat Clarissa Cervantes, the sister of state senator and former Latino Legislative Caucus chair Sabrina Cervantes, by just 596 votes. She said some members are considering admitting Latino Republicans, while “others have said, ‘Absolutely not.’” …

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Column: This is why Donald Trump just doubled down on mass deportation of millions of immigrants
1 week, 5 days ago

Column: This is why Donald Trump just doubled down on mass deportation of millions of immigrants

LA Times  

Migrants walk past buoys being used as a floating barrier in the Rio Grande at the border between Texas and Mexico. A chilling scene in the new movie “Wicked” sums up what’s wrong with President-elect Donald Trump’s view of immigrants. “The best way to bring folks together,” the Wonderful Wizard of Oz tells the women, “is to give them a …

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Column: California produced a female House speaker and vice president. So why are women losing ground?
1 week, 5 days ago

Column: California produced a female House speaker and vice president. So why are women losing ground?

LA Times  

Luz Rivas and Laura Friedman were elected last month to replace Reps. Tony Cárdenas and Adam Schiff, respectively. That erosion in women’s power is particularly noteworthy for a state where women outnumber men among registered voters and the first female House speaker and first female vice president each got their start in the hothouse of San Francisco politics. “So it’s …

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Column: Roki Sasaki and Shohei Ohtani together on the Dodgers? It depends on what Sasaki wants
1 week, 5 days ago

Column: Roki Sasaki and Shohei Ohtani together on the Dodgers? It depends on what Sasaki wants

LA Times  

Roki Sasaki pitches during a WBC semifinal game between Japan and Mexico in 2023 as people watch during a viewing event in Tokyo. There’s no way Sasaki hasn’t already contemplated whether he wants to share a clubhouse with the greatest player ever to come out of his country — or perhaps any country. Agent details posting process for star Japanese …

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Column: Even a 2-year-old knows the challenge facing De La Salle against unbeaten Mater Dei
1 week, 5 days ago

Column: Even a 2-year-old knows the challenge facing De La Salle against unbeaten Mater Dei

LA Times  

De La Salle quarterback Dorian Hale, middle, celebrates his touchdown against St. John Bosco in the 2019 CIF Open Division state championship bowl game. The mystery was solved when Concord De La Salle football coach Justin Alumbaugh reached me and apologized that his 2-year-old daughter, Isabel, had gotten ahold of his phone. If you think De La Salle’s task of …

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‘Grim place’: Famed NY Times columnist unleashes blame in bleak farewell column
1 week, 6 days ago

‘Grim place’: Famed NY Times columnist unleashes blame in bleak farewell column

Raw Story  

Famed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman gave a bleak goodbye in his final piece for the paper Tuesday — but left with a glimmer of hope for the future. “And I’m not just talking about members of the working class who feel betrayed by elites; some of the angriest, most resentful people in America right now — people who …

Column: The headlines said Amnesty International accused Israel of genocide. Here’s what they missed
1 week, 6 days ago

Column: The headlines said Amnesty International accused Israel of genocide. Here’s what they missed

LA Times  

In a shocking development last week, Amnesty International effectively exonerated Israel of genocide. Amnesty’s report, titled “ ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza,” buried the lede, as journalists say. The New York Times ’ headline read: “Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza.” The Los Angeles Times ’ was similar: “Amnesty International says …

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Column: With final report on pandemic, House GOP fully embraces COVID conspiracy-mongering
1 week, 6 days ago

Column: With final report on pandemic, House GOP fully embraces COVID conspiracy-mongering

LA Times  

Over the last two years, the Republican-dominated House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic conducted 38 interviews and depositions, held 25 hearings and meetings, and examined more than 1 million pages of documents. A declassified report issued in June 2023 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI — which oversees the entire intelligence community — found …

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