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The Politics of Crime

April 21, 2022 2:36 amApril 20, 2022 9:49 pm

A recent Cal Berkeley IGS poll showed that a majority of California voters (51%) give Governor Gavin Newsom a “poor/very poor” rating on his performance on crime and public safety issues. This is up 16 percentage points from 2020. The...

Gloria Romero: Memo to My Party

November 4, 2021 3:28 pmNovember 4, 2021 4:12 pm

As a lifetime Democrat, I am horrified to see a Democratic Party I once revered—a party that sent us to the moon and back and inspired a new generation of youth like me with messaging replete with opportunity, hope, optimism,...

Take the California Globe Survey!

May 27, 2021 7:08 pmMay 27, 2021 7:09 pm

California Globe readers are informed and stay on top of the critical issues. That is why we want your input with our weekly survey. There are only 3-4 questions, and will probably take you only 5 seconds to complete it....

Longtime Los Angeles Teacher Sues LA Teachers Union Over Wrongly Collected Dues

March 18, 2021 10:40 amMarch 18, 2021 10:58 am

When the United States Supreme Court affirmed in the summer of 2018 that public-sector employees can’t be forced, as a condition of employment, to fund a labor union, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) and other unions hatched a plan...

Mayor Eric Garcetti is the one ‘Failing on the Basics’

September 17, 2020 2:34 amSeptember 16, 2020 8:52 pm

On a recent national news interview, Mayor Eric Garcetti, said that President Trump is “failing on the basics.” Ironically, Mayor Garcetti was saying this as the city of Los Angeles, which he is supposed to be running, falls further into...

L.A. Teachers Union: Give us $250 Million, Or Keep Schools Closed

July 15, 2020 12:37 pmJuly 15, 2020 1:19 pm

The second largest public school district in the United States is in turmoil. Los Angeles Unified School District, with over 600,000 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade at over 1,000 schools, may not be open for the business of teaching on August...

L.A. Teachers Union: Schools Can’t Reopen Unless Charter Schools Shut Down, Police Defunded

July 13, 2020 2:10 amJuly 14, 2020 8:22 am

In what appears to be a labor union power play, the United Teachers Los Angeles union announced Friday that Los Angeles Unified District schools effectively cannot reopen unless certain conditions are met: privately operated publicly funded charter schools are shut...