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Letters to the Editor

Julee Brooks | Policies Anything but Innocuous

At its next meeting, the William S. Hart Union High School District governing board is poised to vote on a package of policies framed as “parental rights” and “unity.” Behind

Dan Walters

Dan Walters | Gubernatorial Race Remains Wide Open

Given California’s size and its cultural and economic impact around the globe, whoever captures its governorship instantly becomes one of the nation’s most prominent politicians and a potential candidate for

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Roger Ickes | Parents, Don’t Be Deceived

Dan Walters’ piece in opinion (Aug. 22) about unintended consequences is, as always, very good at “explaining how California’s” government works. He gives us several examples of how bills rammed

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Rick Barker | Never Changes

I have written a couple of letters on this topic in the past but President Donald Trump’s news conference brought it back into the news with the added option he

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Rob Kerchner | A Transition for the Democrats

Explain this: In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points more than with the Palestinians. But now Democrats sympathize more with

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Jack Teoli | Grateful for Schiavo

Today, I am happy to live in a free state like California, and have an assemblymember like Pilar Schiavo. On Aug. 21, the California State Legislature voted in favor of

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Jim Crowley | Morphed into Oligarchy

I thought we had a democratic republic representative government in California where the people hold power through voted representatives. With California’s one-party political system, we have morphed into an oligarchy

David Hegg

David Hegg | Just Tell the Truth

By David Hegg Few things make me madder than dishonesty. Being able to take someone at their word lies at the very foundation of a healthy, productive and civil society.

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Larry Moore | The Savior of the World

Gov. Gavin “Alfred E.” Newsom, like Superman, is out to save the world, even if that world includes Texas.  But, unlike the Man of Steel, he doesn’t have superpowers. He

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Jim Scott | Tough to Reconcile

I have often complained about Gary Horton’s “Full Speed to Port” column. I have often reminded readers that always steering to port means that you spin in circles. However, when