Opinion

SCV Voices: Guest Commentary

Gil Mertz | Whose Side Are You on, Anyway?

When a political party becomes so partisan that its knee-jerk reaction is to oppose everything the other side supports without thinking, it forces them to defend some very awkward positions

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Mike DeJohn | Some Comparative Data, Please

For comparison purposes, would it be possible to show deaths and hospitalizations for heart disease, auto accidents and cancer to get a clearer picture on the impact of COVID-19 in

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Jay DelDotto | Tax and Immigration Questions

First question: Why is Gov. Gavin Newsom giving $125 million to illegal immigrants? According to a headline in another newspaper, “school leaders” are pleading for funds to reopen. And in

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Randi Kay | Bring Back the Drive-In

“The concession stand will be closing in 10 minutes.” Ah, that phrase is music to my ears.  There are some times in life when we wish history would repeat itself.

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Blaine Ephrem | Six Months Later, No Action

My name is Blaine Ephrem. Last year, I had written about the Saugus High School shooting, which took the precious lives of Gracie Ann Muhlberger and Dominic Blackwell on Nov.

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David Estrada | Accurate Testing Needed

L.A. County had me go to a drive-thru testing site today! One of the reasons there may be false negatives is they have you swab your mouth yourself. No nasal

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Gary Curtis | Desperate at Home

With Elon Musk’s high-profile, economic and civil disobedience of Alameda County’s shutdown order for Tesla’s Fremont plant, will the high-profile precedent encourage other restricted businesses and non-retail entities to initiate

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Gary Morrison | Just Repeating a Lie?

During the run-up to the 2016 election, candidate Donald Trump continued his fictional investigation alleging that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. At one or more of his

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Mike Garcia | Getting to Work in Washington

If there’s one question we’ve heard the most since our victory last week in California’s 25th Congressional District, it is: How’d you do it? How is it possible a political

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Randi Kay | Advice for Graduates

My heart goes out to the graduating high school seniors whose plans for further education have been temporarily interrupted. Being older and having had the good fortune to have had