by jpitney | Dec 26, 2024 | California Politics, Crime
Karen Garcia at The Los Angeles Times: The In-N-Out in Oakland earlier this year became the first location in the restaurant chain to be permanently closed, a decision the owner of the fast-food company recently doubled down on by blaming rampant crime, slow police...
by jpitney | Dec 25, 2024 | Reagan
As the opening shot shows, some things have changed since 1984, but the Christmas message endures.
by jpitney | Dec 24, 2024 | California Politics, Housing, Insurance
David Siders at Politico: Today, home values in California are more than double the national average, with high rents and low homeownership rates — and the number of homeless people is growing. In part because of devastating wildfires, insurance companies keep...
by jpitney | Dec 23, 2024 | Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
April Quevedo and Shaun Chornobroff at Capital News Service: At least 3,100 journalists have been killed around the world since 1837 according to a Capital News Service analysis of databases of fallen journalists maintained by the Committee to Protect Journalists...
by jpitney | Dec 22, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) was one of the winners of the 2024 Newsweek-Stubblefield Institute Civility Awards. He recently spoke to Larry Platt of the Philadelphia Citizen It’s funny in politics, right? [Laughs] You are used to getting called too young and then...
