Thomas Buckley – Page 25 – California Globe

Mayor Bass’s Billionaire Bake Sale

April 17, 2024 11:24 amApril 17, 2024 11:24 am

“I Gave a Million Dollars to Mayor Bass to Fight Homelessness and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt…and My Rolex Stolen.” Perhaps we are making an assumption that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will be giving away “thank you”...

From Sheriff to Governor: Riverside Sheriff Mulling Run

April 16, 2024 12:53 pmApril 16, 2024 12:55 pm

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is reportedly thinking about the governor’s office. Bianco, a lifelong law enforcer, was first elected Riverside County’s sheriff in 2018 – he was re-elected to the job in 2022 with nearly two-thirds of the vote....

SANDAG Toll Road Foul Up: Thousands of Charging Mistakes Made

April 16, 2024 6:59 amApril 16, 2024 6:59 am

This is no way to run a toll road. Last fall, it was alleged that the San Diego Association of Government operations of the State Route 125 toll road system was riddled with errors, leading to wrong charges, diverted driver...

How to Make a Bully Cry: Arrest Them

April 15, 2024 4:23 pmApril 16, 2024 1:52 pm

For the first time maybe ever, Bakersfield, California last week featured prominently in news stories in both the Times of India and the Jerusalem Post. All thanks to Riddhi Patel and Mayor Karen Goh. At last week’s city...

Don’t Be Evil: Really, Google, This Time Don’t

April 14, 2024 2:30 amApril 14, 2024 2:31 am

Three little words: Don’t Be Evil. But just as “I Love You” can curdle into undying antipathy, Google’s very former motto has become the perfect oppositional descriptor for pretty much everything it now does. From black Nazis to spying on...

Traffic Violence? Is That a Real Thing?

April 11, 2024 2:55 amApril 11, 2024 2:56 am

So there’s gun violence, domestic violence, gang violence – those are, sadly, real things. Then there’s the concept that silence is violence – apparently things that rhyme are the same, like plants and pants (though grass pants would presumably be...

EDD Admits $55 Billion Lost in Pandemic… $55 Billion!

April 10, 2024 4:36 pmApril 10, 2024 4:37 pm

The California Employment Development Department admits that $55 billion was lost in the pandemic. $55 Billion. That’s what the hapless state unemployment agency – the not at all ironically named Employment Development Department – now admits was its “overpayment” amount...