Kevin G. Walthers: Economic mobility is driven by higher education, and discounting the value of completing college is a short-sighted narrati…
GUEST COMMENTARY There is one critical difference between Erdogan and Trump. The Turkish leader won 52%, a small but clear majority. Trump has…
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THOMAS ELIAS If the people most affected by the potential changes in CEQA don’t speak up to their legislators now, Newsom’s plan will pass, de…
DENNIS BEAVER: “Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, there has been a societal movement to eliminate all forms of employment discrimination — in …
CalMatters Commentary - California’s public transit systems say they are facing a “fiscal cliff” and are pleading for state aid, but so far ha…
Byron York: The preliminary season of the Republican race is over. Yes, perhaps another candidate, or a few candidates, like Chris Sununu or G…
CalMatters Commentary - California faces a large budget deficit for the forthcoming fiscal year and chronic shortfalls for years thereafter. H…
THOMAS ELIAS Japanese and Chinese and Jews may not be able to prove they were systematically and deliberately denied equal health care, as the…
Guest Commentary: The UMPK demonstrates that the Russian air force can adapt, even a quarter-century late. Time will tell whether that adaptat…
Guest Commentary: Strong local journalism is a good place to restore trust in the media. In the end, that strengthens trust in our democracy.
CalMatters Commentary - Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to decarbonize California’s economy but the California Environmental Quality Act is an impedim…
Guest Commentary: The California Environmental Quality Act forces local officials to make prudent decisions, not build recklessly, argues an e…
Guest Commentary: The public became truly aware of AI as recently as March 14 with the launch of GPT-4, the successor to GPT-3, which is the …
The eighth annual Cabrillo High School Alumni Association Hall of Fame Induction Dinner is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 4 in the Cabrillo cafeteria.
The 2023 Santa Maria Elks Valley Little League Championship Series schedule is set.
After playing for one set of Warriors basketball teams during her high school career, Righetti High School senior Eva Delgado is looking to pl…
CalMatters Commentary - For the past decade, California has spent billions of dollars to improve the education of at-risk children, but there’…
CalMatters Commentary - Two big rivers, the Klamath and the Colorado, are being resuscitated after becoming dangerously unhealthy. In both cas…
THOMAS ELIAS In California’s 172 years as an American state, relations between its government and the more than 400 cities within state bounda…
DENNIS BEAVER: When I phoned Eric, explaining that I was looking into what appeared to be a case of a lawyer who failed to keep his word, it w…
CalMatters Commentary - After suffering a bout of shingles, Dianne Feinstein’s return to the Senate did not stop the calls for her resignation…
Guest Commentary - Moms for Liberty are censors and book-banners of great passion and determination. Rather like the Junior Anti-Sex League i…
Guest Commentary: If we are genuinely invested in finding an answer, perhaps it’s time we rephrase the question to “what is NOT a woman,” and …
GUEST COMMENTARY Our new political climate demands change. The weapon has to be defused. There's a reason only one other modern democracy, Den…
Byron York: NAACP, LULAC "travel advisories" do a good job of engaging in partisan politics without violating the complex rules that govern wh…
Guest Commentary: If we want to achieve maximal good for the world, we must step up and ensure that resources are allocated to increase vaccinations.
CalMatters Commentary - With California experiencing a serious budget deficit and the fiscal squeeze tightening, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legisla…
THOMAS ELIAS The utilities’ planned new pricing is designed first of all to help them. Any good it might accomplish for anyone else would be i…
Guest Commentary: With the projected budget deficit ballooning, Republicans in the California Senate are urging Democrats to be cautious about…
Guest Commentary - We no longer have political journalism in this country; instead, we have TV. And what TV is about, almost regardless of wha…