On Election Day, Californians can vote to collect a one-time tax of 5% on the wealth of billionaires residing in the state as of January 1, 2026. The wealth tax was put on the ballot by the SEIU. It has been endorsed by Joseph...
Read MoreThe New York Times headline August 25 might be a grabber, but it’s misleading. The study’s finding is not “alarming.” It’s not even news –it’s...
Read MoreStrange headline on a big New Yorker story: “Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now?” So, what else is new? Leary and Alpert taught courses at Harvard in a field called “Social Relations.” Their political...
Read More“Most journalists also don’t know about Heywood Broun (1888-1939), one of the nation’s best-paid columnists who risked his own financial stability to create The Newspaper Guild in 1935 to help those reporters making...
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7/26/28. In November it will be 30 years since California voters passed Proposition 215,...
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After Prop 215 passed in 1996, Terence Hallinan —the only District Attorney in California who...
Read More“Federal Agents Search Voting Rights Group in Ohio” The NY Times headline June 12 did not convey the magnitude of the operation. The third paragraph did: “More than 100 agents with the Department of Homeland...
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When Kamala Harris ran for District Attorney against Terence Hallinan in 2003, I watched from...
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