The next logical step for ‘second look’ resentencing is more judicial discretion
By now, we have all heard stories like Coulson’s—example after example of California’s draconian sentencing...
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The California state budget Kabuki dance
But it’s what we can expect with monolithic one-party control. And that’s no surprise at...
Susan Shelley: Trump was right all along about the Russiagate hoax
There must be accountability. This cannot continue.
Trump was wrongly smeared over Russia links, but he’s still terrible and unpresidential
We’re living in “Idiocracy” so long as he’s a powerful political force in America. And...
Crony capitalism comeback fails to advance in Sacramento
Redevelopment posed a threat to one of our most precious freedoms – our property rights...
Over three decades of covering the California budget, things are wilder than ever
In the 1980s, when I drove out for fun in the sun, the state’s population...
‘Common good capitalism’ is the nationalist right’s latest awful fad
At every turn, common-good capitalism implies a greater role for government in regulating and directing...
Assembly Democrats must be bored if they’re debating hypocritical resolutions
To Californians who feel like the state government is not responding to crises with the...
Judging the judges DiFi came back for
Qualified and not extreme
Forty years after, Rick Cole runs for Pasadena City Council again
Make no little plans.