Opinion – Page 42 – California Globe

Los Angeles County Storm Water Tax – Foresight or Folly?

April 10, 2024 7:00 amApril 10, 2024 7:00 am

After several years of effort, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors placed a storm water tax measure on the November ballot in 2018. Dubbed Measure W, it placed a 2.5 cent per square foot of impermeable surface on commercial...

The Greenberg Brief: San Francisco – A Better City Without Peskin

April 10, 2024 7:00 amApril 10, 2024 8:17 pm

San Francisco offers observers a continuous parade of circus side-show-worthy, screw-loose candidates for office. And every election day, at least one actually wins. Yes, it’s embarrassing – and then the city has to listen to the blabbering, grandstanding, droning-on, manufactured...

A Nation in Decline that We Must Keep Fighting For

April 10, 2024 2:30 amApril 10, 2024 7:10 am

As the 2024 Presidential election gets closer we must start asking ourselves; how do we see our country right now and how do we want to see it in the next 4 years. I know these are the questions I’m...

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...

Good Times Reboot Nothing But Stereotypical Trash

April 2, 2024 11:36 amApril 2, 2024 11:36 am

The trailer for Netflix’s reboot of Good Times has finally dropped, and it has much of the general public screaming, “Dynamite!”—not in homage to a tagline from the original sitcom, but in hopes that someone might blow this train-wreck of...

Gov. Newsom’s Mistaken Press Statement about Florida Supreme Court Decision on Heartbeat Law – We Corrected it For Him

April 2, 2024 7:40 amApril 2, 2024 7:42 am

Last week the Globe reported “Governor Newsom Calls Supreme Court Hearing on Abortion Pill ‘Backdoor Abortion Ban.'” We pointed out where he was incorrect, and questioned why California taxpayers are paying for Newsom’s abortion travel business into California: California is...

California Press Releases, An April Fool’s Paradise

April 2, 2024 6:38 am

Each year on April 1st, also known as April Fools Day, I try to write a piece of satire to showcase some of the absurdities encountered in agricultural irrigation in California. I generally start the piece early in the year...