Opinion

On Oct. 15, 2020, Joe Biden tweeted the following:  “We’re eight months into this pandemic, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan to get this virus under control. I

Religion: that which can unite, divide or confuse us. Like Arthur Saginian, I was once agnostic. Unlike him, I now believe in the Creator God. When I was an agnostic,

The strange compulsion for sticking noses into other people’s lives has gone through the roof over COVID-19.  Who CARES if someone ELSE gets sick? “But it could make ME sick”

I read how Gary Horton plans to “fix the world with a few paragraphs” (commentary, Aug. 4). He started off pretty good with talk of citizenship and civic duty. He

Subject: Reporting certain illnesses during the pandemic. For as long as I can remember, the county of Los Angeles and the state of California would make periodic reports to the

Republicans criticizing Joe Biden and his administration about Afghanistan,which they have the prerogative to do, but lest they forget that George W. Bush “kicked the can down the road’ in

We are learning of medical groups who are peddling a livestock deworming drug for treatment of COVID-19. Farm product stores are finding it hard to keep this drug (ivermectin) in

I just finished reading Gary Horton’s column of Aug. 25 and I am amazed at his characterization of the recall election as anti-democratic. Really? A direct election is anti-democracy? Gary,

Several years ago the news media published accounts of pregnant women entering the United States illegally or on tourist visas, remaining for the birth of their babies, guaranteeing the offspring

Re: Thomas Oatway, letters to the editor, Aug. 18. I have a solution for what appears to be Mr. Oatway’s problem with the U.S. Constitution. First of all, I will

For weeks now I have read of the impending demise (or “retirement”) of the Hart High School mascot, the Indian. I have read articles written by longtime local residents deriding