J. Mitchell Sances – California Globe

Justice Thomas Feels Unwelcome at Institutions Like Stanford Law School

August 25, 2026 6:25 amAugust 25, 2026 10:52 am

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently stated the obvious at a Hoover Institution forum: places like Stanford Law School are effectively “off limits”to conservatives like him. He has never set foot there. “That’s the reality. That’s the world we’re in....

The Spastic California Tango: Newsom Courts Paramount with Tax Breaks While Bonta Nukes Negotiations

August 24, 2026 3:00 pmAugust 24, 2026 3:01 pm

The ongoing antitrust saga pitting California Attorney General Rob Bonta against Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has devolved into a classic cat-and-mouse game—except the cat keeps tripping over its own tail, and the mouse is seriously considering packing...

UC Berkeley Professor Discovers What Her Peers Built

August 22, 2026 6:00 amAugust 22, 2026 6:01 am

A University of California, Berkeley mathematics professor recently expressed public frustration that her college students arrive unable to handle basic skills—fractions, elementary algebra, the kind of material once expected well before high school graduation. The complaint is real, the classroom...

California’s Paramount Contradiction: Tax Credits for the Company It Is Suing

August 20, 2026 6:16 amAugust 20, 2026 6:17 am

California has a peculiar way of doing business. Even as Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general wage legal war to block Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the Golden State is handing...

Judicial Overreach: Judge Forces Huntington Beach into Ranked-Choice Voting Experiment

August 19, 2026 5:00 pmAugust 19, 2026 5:07 pm

Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig L. Griffin has single-handedly upended the entire City Council election system of Huntington Beach. With one ruling, he has ordered the city to abandon its long standing at-large elections, impose ranked-choice voting, and consolidate...

Mayor Bass’s One-Day Pothole PR Stunt Leaves Ordinary Angelenos in the Dust

August 18, 2026 3:45 pmAugust 18, 2026 3:45 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass finally found a pothole worth her time. After Emmy-nominated journalist and comedy creator Simone Boyce posted an Instagram reel spotting a crater at Melrose and Gardner Street—one that “totally tore up my suspension”—and challenged the...

Los Angeles’s Homeless Crisis Deepens Under Mayor Bass

August 17, 2026 3:00 pmAugust 17, 2026 3:01 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass promised to end street homelessness. Instead, the latest numbers show her administration is delivering the opposite. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, released in late July, the...