Thomas Buckley – Page 26 – California Globe

LAPD HQ Phones Down: System Upgrade Went Awry

April 10, 2024 2:51 pmApril 10, 2024 2:51 pm

Who ya’ gonna call? Phones Busted! The landline telephones at the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters have been down for more than a week, inconveniencing hundreds of employees and city residents. The 911 system and all of the individual stations...

California State Auditor’s Scathing Homeless Report: Where Did the Money Go?

April 10, 2024 7:41 am

The California State Auditor yesterday issued a scathing report on how very broken are the state’s homeless programs. In the last five years, the state has spent about $24 billion dollars trying to eradicate – or at least lessen –...

Ramirez, McKinney Endorse Nathan Hochman …And Not Their Boss DA George Gascon

April 9, 2024 1:25 pmApril 9, 2024 1:25 pm

A pair of Los Angeles deputy district attorneys who ran for the top job in the March primary are now backing their boss’s challenger in the November vote. Deputy District Attorneys John McKinney and Maria Ramirez announced this week that...

Winning by Losing – the Hamas Plan All Along?

April 8, 2024 11:56 amApril 8, 2024 11:57 am

It simply didn’t make sense, Hamas attacking Israel last October 7th. There was no hope Hamas could win militarily and there was the certainty of an appropriately overwhelming Israeli response. Gaza – and the people who live there – would...

Is California a Failed State?

April 7, 2024 11:48 amApril 8, 2024 2:27 pm

Californian’s often cite the fact that if the state were its own country, it would be the fifth richest nation in the world. Gov. Gavin Newsom regularly takes this concept to the extreme, only recently saying the “California is where...

Hochman Leads Gascon

April 4, 2024 2:39 pmApril 4, 2024 2:39 pm

Wasting no time, the Nathan Hochman campaign conducted a poll at the end of March – about three weeks after the primary – and they seem to have found some very good news. The poll, a survey of 817 Los...

The Depersonalization of Reporting

April 3, 2024 2:24 pm

The news is not made in the newsroom. That is a true statement. A former editor worried when he saw too many reporters at their desks in the middle of the day and, like a mother telling her kids to drop...