I am a Northern California native. Fires rampage through my region during the dry summers every year. For this reason, when the Los Angeles fires broke out on Jan. 7, I thought little of it. Looking at my fire tracker app, I saw the Palisades and Eaton fires at 23,000 and 17,000 acres, which seemed...
Almost every student driving to campus from downtown takes the shortcut to Hillsdale Street from Broad Street, veering right by the parked police cars to avoid two hairpin turns and a traffic light. A new city proposal would close the shortcut. You may have missed this proposed change unless you read the City News section...
One of President Donald Trump’s greatest lines during the 2016 presidential campaign was his promise that, “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have...
The Supreme Court will decide by the end of June whether age restrictions on pornography websites violate free speech rights after a Jan. 15 hearing over Texas’s age verification law. The decision shouldn’t be difficult — in fact, it ought to be one of those no-brainer, unanimous outcomes. Of course, pornography sites should have age...
Vivek Ramaswamy needs to rewatch “Whiplash.” The co-leader of the new Department of Government Efficiency started an internet uproar on X Dec. 26 when he took shots at American cultural laziness. Tech companies often hire foreign-born or first generation engineers because our culture has long promoted mediocrity over excellence, he said. His proposed solution calls...