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Los Angeles DA Race: Eric Siddall Joins Gascon Challengers

August 28, 2023 12:28 pm

Long time deputy district attorney Eric Siddall has joined the race to become Los Angeles’ next District Attorney. Siddall, the Vice President of the Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys for the past decade until he stepped aside last...

More Than A Month’s Worth: That’s the Size of LA DA Gascon’s Case Backlog

August 27, 2023 2:32 amAugust 27, 2023 2:33 am

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has been criticized – rightly – for any number of justice system reasons: soft on crime, does not add gun enhancements to charges, does not support victim’s families, does not oppose the parole of...

California State Auditor Rates Unemployment Agency ‘High Risk’

August 25, 2023 3:05 pmAugust 25, 2023 3:48 pm

The California State Auditor’s Office has slapped the omni-shambles Employment Development Department, California’s unemployment agency with a “high risk” rating, meaning that the “likelihood of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement or the likelihood of impaired economy, efficiency, or effectiveness causing...

The Startling COVID Shot Death and Illness Figures

August 25, 2023 6:40 amAugust 25, 2023 12:38 pm

Safe and effective – that has been the COVID shot mantra. But California figures show the shot was not nearly as safe as a regular vaccine. And as to effective, well it depends upon how the word is defined: it...

Little California, But Lots of Fire at GOP Debate

August 24, 2023 7:38 amAugust 24, 2023 8:15 am

First, as much as it pains me to admit, California was not directly addressed in Wednesday night’s first GOP presidential debate. Mea culpa. Indirectly, though, the hot button issues on the agenda could all be said to have had their...

J. Edgar Lysenko

August 24, 2023 2:55 amAugust 24, 2023 2:56 am

J. Edgar Hoover was the consummate bureaucratic power builder. He controlled presidents through an unchallengeable combination of secrets, money, threats, and lies. He was a media hero leading a pristine expert agency whose sole mission was to protect the public and...

First GOP Primary Wednesday

August 22, 2023 8:46 amAugust 22, 2023 8:51 am

So on Wednesday night Donald Trump will not be somewhere. That somewhere is the first in a series of Republican Party presidential candidate debates. And Trump not being there seems to be dominating the pre-debate coverage. Oh well – not...