Inexperienced candidates are not better than career politicians • Biden’s student loan forgiveness is just classic vote-buying, with taxpayer dollars
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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Newsom-backed Proposition 1 will probably make homelessness in California worse

No one disputes that California is struggling to deal with a spiraling homelessness crisis. Our state has more than 181,000 homeless people — a number that has increased a mind-bending 40% since 2019, per a CalMatters report. Whatever the state government is doing, it’s not working.

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Inexperienced candidates are not better than career politicians

The answer isn’t to hand over the reins to someone with no relevant experience.

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Biden’s student loan forgiveness is just classic vote-buying, with taxpayer dollars

And before we get temporarily outraged, it’s probably worth considering how OUR votes are bought.

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Is another Child Tax Credit expansion really the best way to help families?

It’s imperative to step back and examine the assumptions at the heart of this ongoing debate.

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Sacramento, California’s capital, is also the capital of official sneakiness

The message to Sacramentans from these two incidents is that sneakiness is now official policy and they cannot rely on its officials to reveal what they are doing.

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Larry Elder: Even after Musk takeover, conservatives are still suppressed on Twitter

Bottom line, Mr. Musk, a lot of conservatives still detect a serious deep state problem at X, a platform we need now more than ever.

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The endless flood of PAC spending shows the need to reform campaign financing laws

As Election Day March 5 marches toward us, voters will get even more mail flyers than already. Video ads also will flood TV shows and social media posts.

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The U.S. should continue to aid Ukraine, but with robust accountability measures

Ukrainians who have bravely endured Putin’s ruthless invasion of their country should not expect all aid to be given for free.

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Nori Uyematsu and the day of remembrance: Letters

Thank you so much for your lovely article about Nori Uyematsu Feb. 18. I was delighted to read it and gleaned some information about my own family history. My mother, aunt, grandparents and half-sister were interned in Poston, Arizona during World War II. My mother would on occasion refer to her experience in “camp” but to me as a child I was only familiar with church camp or summer camp. This part of our history was never taught in public school so I was totally unaware of what really happened during this time and most Japanese people rarely mentioned it […]

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Newsom’s fracking ban is just a feel good gesture that won’t do much

Environments are all atwitter about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2021 phase out of hydraulic fracking for oil finally being implemented.

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