Opinion: Dangers lurk in fully electronic health records
If you’re in Southern California and get laboratory workups at UCLA Health Services, any Providence Health Center or the Cedars Sinai hospital network, the results are quickly available to every doctor linked to any of those systems. The same in the San Francisco Bay area if you’re a patient getting lab work at any hospital […]
Opinion: Why Newsom won’t ok Manson follower’s parole
The murderous mastermind Charles Manson lies dead and buried in a location known only to a few, the secret intended to prevent that site from becoming a shrine for cult followers who still pore over every move he and his “family” made during their 1960s heyday, but he keeps popping back into the headlines every […]
Opinion: Often-destructive pot now treated like any other business
California voters legalized recreational marijuana via a ballot initiative in November 2016, almost six years ago. Since then, the weed has evolved into something like a normal business, complete with webcasts on operating efficiently, disputes about where stores can be located and gripes about underground operators siphoning off too much of the take. But there’s […]
Opinion: California’s national role becomes more activist
California has long had a major role in national affairs, often defined by personalities as disparate as Earl Warren, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy. They’ve been chief justice, presidents, vice presidents, speaker of the House and a possible speaker-to-be. For sure, without California’s two Democratic senators and the huge […]
Opinion: ‘Pick your opponent’ ploy fails Bonta
It was a ploy, much like one first used in the modern era of California politics by the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston in his 1986 reelection bid. The tactic worked that time. But radio ads that hit California airwaves in large quantities during May, as the primary election approached, did not work this […]
Opinion: Newsom probably can’t lose this fall
Gov. Gavin Newsom easily won this month’s California primary election. But no matter, he will still have to run this fall. After demonstrating overwhelming vote-getting power both in this balloting and last fall’s abortive, Republican-led recall election, is it possible he might somehow contrive to lose in November’s runoff election? The easy and very likely […]
Opinion: Proposed law limits social media manipulating kids
It may not seem this way on the surface, but there’s a growing awareness that the most important bill California legislators will consider this year is not about housing or homelessness or abortion or wildfires or taxes. Rather, it’s one that might force gigantic electronic firms to lay off our teenage kids and stop trying […]
Opinion: Newsom budget recognizes one housing reality
It’s anyone’s guess whether the developer campaign donors who greatly influence California’s huge Democratic legislative majorities will follow suit, but Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget at long last recognizes one reality that has been plain since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic: With hundreds of thousands of white collar office workers switching permanently to home […]
Opinion: Let aging Feinstein serve out her term
Since her election to the U.S. Senate in 1992, no politician has done more for California and its people than 88-year-old Diane Feinstein. Without Feinstein, there would be no national parks in the redwood country of Northern California or the parts of the Mojave Desert thick with Joshua trees. There would be far fewer federal […]
Opinion: Newsom running for prez during primary
Just watching him, you might think that after he secures a November ballot slot in the California primary election ending June 7, Gov. Gavin Newsom would hop a quick flight to Iowa or New Hampshire and press the flesh with voters who will decide early on the next Democratic presidential nominee. From the moment the […]