Thomas Buckley – Page 39 – California Globe

No Technology for Kill Switch…Yet – and Don’t Call it a Kill Switch

December 17, 2023 9:19 amDecember 17, 2023 9:19 am

Buried in the massive 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act were a few lines calling for the installation in all new cars starting in 2026 of a system that would detect whether or not the driver was drunk and, if...

Poll Shows Gascon Weak in Los Angeles DA’s Election Race

December 14, 2023 3:35 pmDecember 15, 2023 7:44 am

Is fifty one-and-a-half weeks all the time George Gascon has left in office? A new poll on the state of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s election race shows Gascon remains deeply unpopular and – even if were to finish in...

DA Gascon Tried to Side-Step California’s Three Strikes Law

December 13, 2023 6:47 amDecember 13, 2023 6:47 am

California’s “three strikes” law is widely popular and widely credited with cutting crime. It is also the bete noir of the progressive prosecutor and the “justice reform” movement, being blamed for excessive incarceration and arrest and sentencing racial disparities. The...

About Last Week… Nattering Nabobs of Naughtiness

December 11, 2023 2:30 amDecember 11, 2023 2:31 am

Speaking of naughty, this column may be a bit itself, so a head’s up is in order. On January 1, California stores will have to have gender neutral spaces, leading to a simple question: What will Dick’s Sporting Goods do?...

How Healthy is the Healthy Places Index?

December 10, 2023 10:18 amDecember 10, 2023 10:18 am

It would be understandable to think that something called the Healthy Places Index would use the actual health of a place to create a ranked index. But that turns out to not quite be true, as the HPI® – a...

LADPH Prevails in First Amendment Lawsuit: Judge Has No Idea How Politics Works

December 7, 2023 7:29 pmDecember 7, 2023 7:30 pm

In a stunning decision, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has sided with the egregious Los Angeles County Department of Health (LADPH) and ruled it did not violate the First Amendment rights of county residents when it shut down...

Congress: What Are You Up to, Julie?

December 7, 2023 3:10 pmDecember 7, 2023 3:10 pm

At the end of October, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued an astonishingly overbroad rule as to what constitutes a joint employer. Why does that matter and why would the House Committee on Education and the Workforce send a...