Thomas Buckley – Page 19 – California Globe

Remembering

May 27, 2024 2:45 amMay 27, 2024 2:46 am

If you look around this weekend you will most likely notice many many American flags – tiny and large – scattered about. From mailboxes to Main Streets, from auto ariels to front porches, our national, hopefully unifying, symbol will be...

Tunnel Vision: When Stupid Drifts into Ludicrous

May 26, 2024 4:04 pmMay 26, 2024 4:04 pm

You have to hand it to the California High Speed Rail Authority – they just never stop, do they? As noted in this California Globe piece Friday, the rail folks are trying to get the last little bit (don’t hold...

CalTrans Launches Road Tax Pilot Program

May 24, 2024 9:30 amMay 24, 2024 9:31 am

You’ll never drive alone again. If you were worried that Sacramento would turn off or even slow down its perpetual stupid machine, fear not: the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax pilot program has been launched! CalTrans is right now looking...

What Blockheads: UCLA Leader, Other College Leaders Flail in Congress

May 24, 2024 7:43 amMay 24, 2024 7:43 am

In politics, as in life, sometimes you don’t have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the other guy. Luckily for UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, the other guy – Northwestern University President Michael Schill...

UCLA Police Chief Reassigned Day Before Chancellor Testifies in of Congress

May 22, 2024 5:00 pmMay 22, 2024 5:01 pm

UCLA police chief John Thomas has been reassigned in the wake of the chaotic pro-Hamas protests engulfing the campus. The reassignment comes one day before UCLA Chancellor Gene Block will testify in front of Congress about antisemitism on campus and...

It’s UCLA’s Turn in the Hot Seat: Chancellor to Appear before Congress Thursday AM

May 22, 2024 3:15 pmMay 22, 2024 3:15 pm

The past couple of months have been a rather trying time for UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. And it won’t get any better Thursday. Block has been called to testify by the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce...

California Lutheran University President Resigns

May 21, 2024 6:00 pmMay 21, 2024 6:01 pm

The controversial president of California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks has resigned. Then-president Lori Varlotta was on the wrong side of a faculty “no confidence” vote only a few months ago – prior to that she had been seen as...