Opinion: Corporate America Must Recognize the Mandate for Equitable Justice
One cannot read the founding documents of our nation and miss the overarching mandate for…
Opinion: Despite Real Fears Amid Coronavirus, Our Schools Must Reopen in August
The warnings are dire. The options limited. The fears real. But keeping schools closed the…
Opinion: Why the Rust Belt Will Turn on Donald Trump This Time
On Nov. 8, 2016, at approximately 5 p.m., Californians were notified that the improbable had…
Opinion: Democrats in Legislature May Finally Derail California Bullet Train Project
Is this the end of the line for California’s misbegotten bullet train project? A bipartisan…
Opinion: 9th Circuit Prevents California from Secretly Codifying Religious Intolerance
Whatever its skills may be in handling medical costs, the California Department of Managed Health…
Opinion: President Trump Perpetuates the Moral Bankruptcy of the Confederacy
I was born in the South, grew up there and worked at Southern newspapers for…
Opinion: Schools Should Have Been Top Priority for San Diego’s CARES Act Funds
Despite the surprising, positive jobs number we saw for the month of May, San Diego’s…
Opinion: Protests Create Both Opportunity and Peril for California Political Figures
The tsunami of righteous indignation over the suffocation death of a black man, George Floyd,…
Opinion: America Must Value Justice and Righteousness Over Law and order
I associate the rallying call “law and order” with right-leaning politicians of the 1960s, especially…
Opinion: ‘Anti-Chinese Sentiment’ Amid the Pandemic is Really Just Racism
Through the years I’ve experienced anti-Chinese sentiment. It waxes and wanes in American society, stirred…
Opinion: Governor Newsom’s Medi-Cal Proposal Betrays California’s Poor
Governor Gavin Newsom just unveiled a new budget proposal aimed at digging California out of…
Opinion: The Plight of Forgotten Older Refugees Sheltering in Tijuana
She was hunched, wrinkled as a raisin, and supported herself on her cane as she…
Opinion: Spend Scarce Funds to Restore Mission Bay Wetlands, Not Golf Clubhouse
In golf, I’m what you call a “hacker,” in that I’m a golfer with a…
Opinion: Why I Put a Black Lives Matter Sign on My La Jolla Church
This past Wednesday, I found myself in my office with a giant magic marker carefully…