Judy Reinsma: Motorcycles in the canyon
June 12, 2018
Does anyone know what can be done about motorcycles riding in San Francisquito Canyon? Every weekend from dawn to dark, and most afternoons and evenings there are motorcycles driving up
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Joshua Heath: Rights and responsibilities
June 12, 2018
If anything is true in 2018, it’s this: today is an era of narcissism—the music we listen to, the movies we watch, the advertisements we read have one, singular message:
G. Dawe: Upright vs. dirty
June 12, 2018
Congratulations to Steve Knight, Katie Hill, and Jess Phoenix on running fair and upright campaigns. Thank goodness the carpetbagger was shown the door hopefully. Let him go back to his
David Hegg: Figuring out forgiveness
June 9, 2018
Forgiveness has fallen on hard times. And like all of virtue’s children, forgiveness is something we are much more apt to expect than extend. But the problem with forgiveness is
Our View: Tuesday’s takeaways
June 9, 2018
Tuesday’s election reminded us once again about the importance of becoming involved, and that elections are about the candidates. We can shout about what we want, and when we want
Brian Baker: Misreading the tea leaves
June 9, 2018
Well, it’s certainly been an interesting campaign season so far, culminating in the primary election on June 5. For those unfamiliar with my writings, I’m a conservative who’s not a
Vote in the week’s poll
June 9, 2018
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Martha Michael: The ‘F’ word
June 8, 2018
Your mother may have used the word to explain burning bras and the ERA in the ‘70s. And her mother may have used it to explain why she and her
Joshua Heath: More notes on Ayn Rand
June 8, 2018
In my previous column, “GOP’s Favorite Witch”, I discussed the amoral philosophy of Ayn Rand, with its obsession with selfishness as the virtue that should override all others. There were
Dianne Van Hook: What’s the big rush in Sacramento?
June 8, 2018
These are busy days in Sacramento as legislators in the Capitol hustle to finish up a spending plan for the coming fiscal year by the June 15 deadline. But not
Peggy Stabile: The difference between gender and sex
June 7, 2018
“Knowledge is the accumulation of facts and the correlation between them. Wisdom is the said knowledge of life guided by experience. Wisdom comes as we temper and train our knowledge
Steve Lunetta: Crunching the homeless numbers
June 7, 2018
Last Friday, Los Angeles County released the results of its annual Homelessness Survey. My wife and I participated in the counting project that was held and found a grand total
Gary Horton: Friendships are everything
June 6, 2018
Nearly 43 years ago I was a “greenie” – a brand spanking newly minted Mormon Missionary in Finland. I’d turned 19 just months before; had completed an intensive two-month deep
Robert W. Burton: Missing Buckley
June 6, 2018
I miss William F. Buckley, Jr. and his television program “Firing Line” for both he and his program brought out the best in educational awareness. Each week, Mr. Buckley debated
Nick Jensen: Day in the life on an ill-advised development site
June 6, 2018
When the naturalist John Muir walked from California’s coast to the Sierra Nevada, he crossed vast fields of wildflowers noting that his feet “would press a hundred flowers at every
Brett Haddock: Open letter to council candidates
June 5, 2018
It seems the discourse for everything political has become so divisive, so heated, that we are unable to even entertain ideas or positions that may be contrary to our own.
Jonathan Kraut: Let the trade wars begin
June 5, 2018
One can make the argument that leadership starts with finding common needs, moving others towards meeting those needs, and creating trust through keeping one’s word and acting as promised. The
David Hegg: The secular malaise
June 2, 2018
In his monumental work A Secular Age, Charles Taylor explores the shift in society from what he calls the “porous self” to the “buffered self.” No, he’s not talking about
Kevin Eliason: Priorities of politics
June 2, 2018
I know we have all asked this before but I need to ask it one more time because I am just fuming mad at what has become political waste. If
Howard H. Gething: Second amendment cases
June 2, 2018
School shootings continue and our legislators do nothing; the implied mantra being that the Second Amendment is sacrosanct. It seems they need a refresher course on what has already been