State lawmakers must be smoking some of that wacky tobacky they legalized, because the one-house budget bills they passed this week are utterly off the rails. The bills came in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s spending scheme and upped her $233...
After the initial shock and awe of the announcement to close the trauma, stroke and heart attack treatment services at Regional Medical Center (RMC) had subsided, most of us providers spent the better part of the week scrambling for jobs. The...
To the Editor: Re “How to Teach Students About a Politicized Supreme Court,” by Jesse Wegman (Opinion, March 3): Mr. Wegman asserts that teaching constitutional law has relied on the belief that the Supreme Court is a “legitimate institution of governance”...
When President Biden and former President Trump visited Texas at the end of February, each spoke about migration and border security. Biden called for restricting asylum. Trump engaged in fear-mongering, blaming migrants for crime. But neither mentioned one of the main...
Since the public became aware of critical race theory a few years ago, it’s subverted almost every aspect of America’s fabric. In operative terms, CRT, a neo-Marxist dogma, reduces every interaction between individuals into a collectivist conflict, between the oppressor race...
For the better part of the last decade, California leaders of every conceivable political stripe have told us that addressing the state’s housing affordability crisis was a top priority. A plethora of proposals soon followed: “by right” laws, environmental reforms and measures to expand...
To the Editor: Re “It’s Not as Easy as Just Getting Biden to Drop Out,” by Jamelle Bouie (newsletter, nytimes.com, Feb. 24): Mr. Bouie claims that if President Biden were to step aside as the Democratic nominee and the Democratic Party...
The end of money bail for most nonviolent and nonserious crimes hasn’t increased repeat arrests or court no-shows, according to Los Angeles Superior Court data on the first four months of the court’s bail-free release protocol. This was a pleasant surprise...
In 2016, Hunter Biden and his father, Joe Biden, gave an interview in which the son declared, “The single best thing is, family comes first.” In a gushing account, Salon warned readers that the interview “will make you want to be a Biden.”...
California voters are deciding the fate of Proposition 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to reform the state’s mental health system. The measure on the March 5 ballot would authorize the state to borrow $6.4 billion through bonds to fund construction of...
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