Opinion – Page 79 – California Globe

Questions We Should Ask our Future Sacramento County Sheriff and District Attorney

March 16, 2022 6:32 amMarch 16, 2022 6:11 pm

Sacramento County and our state is at a crossroads. With rising crime, the highest population of individuals experiencing homelessness, businesses suffering due to smash and grab robberies, these public safety positions are more important than ever before. The sheriff and district attorney are...

LA Mayor Garcetti’s India Ambassadorship Delayed

March 13, 2022 3:37 amMarch 12, 2022 10:14 pm

We will now all get to see exactly how long Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti can hold his breath. Earlier this week, Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley asked that the confirmation process for Garcetti’s ambassadorial nomination be delayed while his...

California and Drug Decriminalization: A Long and Complicated Issue

March 10, 2022 2:49 amMarch 9, 2022 9:43 pm

The decriminalization of drugs, especially harder drugs in the FDA’s schedule I territory, has always been an odd issue in California. Growing up in Ohio, California was always the punchline of drug jokes by our very decidedly not funny D.A.R.E....

California Girl Eileen Gu Wins Two Gold and a Silver Medal……..For China?

February 24, 2022 6:34 amFebruary 24, 2022 6:46 am

I know, I know. Sure, I promised to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China—and with good reason. To repeat, the Chi-Comms are truly awful. They are indisputably an authoritarian repressive regime rife with human rights abuses and outright...

Transgender Athletes in the Spotlight

February 19, 2022 3:26 amFebruary 18, 2022 9:03 pm

Former California gubernatorial candidate, Olympic champion, and perhaps the most renowned transgender person on the planet, Caitlyn Jenner recently appeared in a Fox News interview and took full on the continuing controversy of transgender athletes participating in women’s sports. Jenner...

Are We All Terrorists Now for Supporting the Truckers?

February 17, 2022 7:59 amOctober 18, 2022 4:30 pm

I donated $100 to the Canadian Truckers Freedom Convoy. Now it appears that, by emergency edict of the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, I might quite possibly be labeled a “foreign terrorist” and my financial records turned over to...

SF School Board Recall: Communities Can Come Together and Do What’s Right

February 17, 2022 3:09 amFebruary 16, 2022 8:42 pm

With the generalized socio-political angst currently afoot, razor thin, contested elections, questions about the future of democracy, and even whether the United part remains in our nation’s name, it is heartening to see a diverse community come together as one...