I, Cedar, may be as dead as the narrator of the film Sunset Boulevard. But from my warm and dry pen in caprine heaven, I can...
California kids, do you follow the news about the culture wars over local school boards? If you do, you’ll see these wars portrayed as political contests...
California is spending billions to house its increasing population of unhoused people. But it hasn’t come close to ending homeless its ambitious goal of ending homelessness....
In this era of exodus, if you want to see the future of California, you have to leave the state. I got an unexpected glimpse of...
Dear Cal and Stanford, Why are you running away from California? Yes, the collapse of the Pac-12 conference — with eight schools departing for conferences with...
Sure, these are entertaining films about a physicist and a doll. But both movies are also global nightmares full of warnings about the damage that Northern...
Is there a family trait more common than keeping secrets? Family secrets have hidden costs. When we leave a place or person behind, we don’t know...
By AGGRESSIVE SANTA CRUZ OTTER, as told to JOE MATHEWS Who are you to be calling me aggressive? Yes, I’m the 5-year-old female otter, from Santa...
Ban this column! Please! It might seem strange to call for the cancellation of one’s own column. Who needs to squelch such a piece when newspaper...
In this time of polarization, authoritarian populism, and big-money politics, we the people are told we must save democracy. But democracy costs money. And democracy—unlike the...
