In a triumph of hope over experience, this editorial board endorsed Proposition 28, the Arts and Music in Schools Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act, in 2022. We said the state’s 6 million public school students in grades K-12, about 60% of whom are from low-income families, “deserve to have an enriched education that might otherwise be available only to students whose parents can pay for private instruction in the arts.”

In death, as in life, Bermúdez has imbued this corner of California with his legacy—one that stretches to Zacatecas, and beyond.

It’s time for the Legislature to act before this relatively small problem becomes yet another example of California dysfunction.

I have never wavered in my commitment in helping all taxpayers.

Reuters reported Beijing declared it was merely “standardizing” the localities’ names “in accordance with the relevant regulations on place name management of the State Council.”

Now serving as Joe Biden’s acting U.S. Secretary of Labor, Su is prepared to force U.S. taxpayers to pay off California’s loss of some $30 billion in federal COVID-relief funds.

South Africa is making itself an unwitting pawn in Hamas’ war against Israel, and it doesn’t seem like South Africa is willing to change course.

Conservative economists, including the late Milton Friedman, have always stated that if you want more of something, tax it less, and if you want less of something, tax it more.

The true cost of these policies can only be measured in the lives that are affected and the opportunities that are lost.

Stonewalling.