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Commentary: Liberal White Women Seek Masculinity in Gay Romance

May 21, 2026 8:00 amMay 21, 2026 8:01 am

Last Friday night I ducked into my usual spot in West Hollywood—a proper gay bar, the kind where the clientele is 95% dudes who actually like other dudes. No bachelorette parties, no hen-night shrieking, no rainbow-filtered Instagram tourists treating the...

Normalize Excellence: Neither Mediocrity Nor Decline is Destiny

May 21, 2026 7:00 amMay 21, 2026 7:01 am

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results show a grim picture of academic loss. Between January and March 2024, 19,300 12th graders from 1,500 schools across the country were tested on mathematics. Among them, only 22% achieved math proficiency....

California High-Speed Rail: A Textbook Case of Fiscal Failure Under Controller Malia Cohen

May 21, 2026 6:00 amMay 21, 2026 6:01 am

California’s long-troubled High-Speed Rail project stands as one of the most expensive and least accountable boondoggles in state history. What began as a 2008 voter-approved promise of an 800-mile network for roughly $33 billion has shrunk to a 171-mile Merced-to-Bakersfield...

Mode of Transfer of Real Property

May 21, 2026 2:30 amMay 21, 2026 2:31 am

Division 2, Part 4, Title 4, Chapter 2, Article 1 of the Civil Code deals with the mode of transfer in the transfer and acquisition of real property in California. Section 1091 provides that an estate in real property, other...

Ringside: California’s Plans for Energy and Water Can be Misleading

May 20, 2026 4:53 pmMay 20, 2026 4:53 pm

When Governor Gavin Newsom’s water plan calls for nine million acre feet of new water supply, it turns out part of that total is increased storage capacity in reservoirs, which will not result in an equivalent amount of available water....

Sacramento’s Gift to California HOAs: Capped Budgets and Crumbling Streets

May 20, 2026 3:32 pmMay 20, 2026 3:32 pm

I’ve spent sixteen years on the Ladera Ranch Community Services board and coached youth football and rugby for years. Both roles share one practical lesson: arbitrary limits imposed from outside don’t lower costs. They shift them, and usually onto the...

Specific Guidance for Drafting Regulations

May 20, 2026 2:00 pmMay 20, 2026 2:01 pm

The following are some specific drafting principles I have found in the drafting manuals of other states, which appear to apply in California based upon my review of regulations over the years: If a department is defined, then all subsequent...