Volunteers gather to board a bus headed to Nevada to canvass for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at Placita Olvera in Los Angeles, on Oct. 26, 2024. Photo by Elisa Ferrari for CalMatters

Busloads of California Democrats head to swing states 

California GOP leaders focusing on state’s congressional races  By Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Writer  With days left in a neck-and-neck presidential election, many anxious California Democrats are getting on buses to

Letters to the Editor

Larry Moore | The Kamala Tapes?

Editor’s note: What follows is satire.  Who would have thought? The top journalists from the Fake News networks couldn’t get an interview, but I was somehow granted an interview with

World News

US greenlights $2B arms deal with Taiwan 

By Tom Ozimek Contributing Writer  The United States has approved a nearly $2 billion arms sale to Taiwan, including two radar upgrade packages, and for the first time ever, an advanced

Letters to the Editor

Rick Barker | Democracy?

In re: David Hegg, “Foundations of Democracy,” commentary, Oct. 20. As I have pointed out here before, we do not live in a democracy and the founders of this country

Letters to the Editor

Derek Vineyard | Seeing Everything as Racist

Good ol’ Valerie Bradford, president of the Santa Clarita Valley Chapter of the NAACP (letters, Oct. 22), propagating lies of rampant racism here in the SCV without a shred of

Letters to the Editor

Diane Zimmerman | An Apology Forthcoming?

Rebuttal re: Nancy Oliver’s letter, “What Becomes of Individual Freedom,” Oct. 22. Dear Nancy Oliver: I wish you had looked in to this a whole lot more before you made

Letters to the Editor

Anna Meeks | What Racism?

Valerie Bradford’s letter (Oct. 22) made my blood boil. She claims that Santa Clarita is “deafeningly silent”  when it comes to racism. In response,  I ask: What racism? As usual,

Letters to the Editor

Ron Perry | It’s All Been Said Before

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” — George Orwell, “1984.” “But if thought corrupts language, language can also

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Rob Kerchner | On That Track Record?

The woman whose administration built just eight electric vehicle charging stations in two and a half years, at a cost of $7.5 billion, is now promising to build 3 million

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Inside the trend of Americans retiring abroad 

By Autumn Spredemann Contributing Writer  As a record number of Americans turn 65 this year, retiring abroad is becoming an increasingly attractive option for many. Former U.S. residents — or “expats”