Bring Back Topgun!
By that, I do not mean Top Gun, the cliché-ridden, late-Cold War, Tom Cruise film about Naval aviators in San Diego. That Top Gun is already on its way back with a sequel next year.
No, what California reall...
These Immigrants are Making Healthcare More Human
Immigrants, already essential to California healthcare, will become even more important in the future.
Today, one in six medical professionals, and nearly one-third of physicians, are foreign-born, and man...
Forestiere Underground Gardens Light a Path to Ending Housing Crisis
In our search for inspiring new ideas for solving California’s housing crisis, we must dig deeper.
How deep? At least to the depths plumbed by Baldassare Forestiere.
Joe Mathews
Opinion
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Meet California’s Most Unlikely Philanthropist: 18-Year-Old Fabiola
This spring — as federal prosecutors announced charges against wealthy Californians, who paid bribes to get their kids into elite universities — a poor kid from a poor California town faced her own dilemma: How...
Why California Should Close Failing School Districts
School has begun for the 40,000-plus students of Sweetwater Union High School District. But the district’s crisis never ends.
Sweetwater rarely makes the statewide news, but it’s California’s largest seconda...
Sacramento Should Look in the Mirror While Fighting Trump
As California builds its capacity to fight the Leviathan that is the Trump administration, does it risk turning our state government into a Leviathan of our own?
This unhappy question occurred to me while re...
Why UCLA Is More Important Than Cal-Berkeley
Berkeley. Schmerkeley. California’s most important educational institution is UCLA — and the contest really isn’t close.
Opinion
Joe Mathews
Despite its late start, UCLA has come to embody...
Time for Yosemite and Humanity to Take a Break?
The road to Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park is closed to cars, and the shuttle bus wasn’t running. Would the Three Stooges—my sons, ages 10, 8 and 5—agree to a 2 ½ mile uphill hike to see Yosemite’s si...
Why Gavin Newsom Is No Fan of High-Speed Rail
How will California ever finish high-speed rail when it can’t finish San Francisco’s Downtown Rail Extension?
Opinion
Joe Mathews
Twenty-three years ago, a restauranteur named Gavin Newsom ...
Should Google or Your Taxes Help Pay for Local News?
Whose job it is to revive local journalism in California? Our state’s elites have a clear, if dubious answer: themselves.
Opinion
Joe Mathews
Philanthropists and foundations have invested i...
