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‘Christian Left’ Gathers Steam, Appalled by Treatment of Migrants

August 19, 2019

Holding pictures of migrant children who have died in U.S. custody and forming a cross with their bodies on the floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, 70 Catholics were arrested in July for obstructing a public place, which is considered a misdemeanor. ...

Walters: Is a Recession on Our Horizon?

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 18, 2019

We live in volatile economic times, with global markets reacting moment by moment to the latest bits of data and the utterances of central bankers and politicians — even the tweets from the White House. Cali...

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When Will Politicians Stop Repeating Myths About Mass Shootings?

The Conversation

August 17, 2019

When 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine more were killed in Dayton, Ohio, roughly 12 hours later, responses to the tragedy included many of the same myths and stereotypes Americans have grown use...

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Why California Should Close Failing School Districts

Joe Mathews

August 17, 2019

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 secondary school district. Sweetwater's high schools and ...

Why Samoans Are 40 Times More Likely to Play in the NFL

The Conversation

August 15, 2019

With training camp in full swing, quarterback Marcus Mariota, the first Samoan Heisman Trophy winner, will be the signal caller for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans. Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, a...

Walters: 2020 Property Tax Measure Altered

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 15, 2019

Sponsors of a 2020 ballot measure to increase property taxes on factories, stores, warehouses, office buildings and other commercial real estate withdrew it this week and launched a revised version. ...

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Walters: Ethic Studies Time Bomb Explodes

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 13, 2019

State legislators and then-Gov. Jerry Brown should have known that they were lighting the fuse of a political time bomb three years ago when they ordered up a “model curriculum in ethnic studies” for high school students. The bomb is now exploding. ...

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Born Dirt Poor in the Ozarks, John Carbray Believed in Fresno

Bill McEwen

August 12, 2019

John Carbray's first breaths were in a dirt floor farmhouse in Paris, Arkansas, as America was recovering from the Great Depression. His coal-miner father left their Ozarks home when John was 6 months old. A...

Tired of Plastic Junk? Recycling Bills Propose Dramatic New Rules

CALmatters

August 11, 2019

As bills that take aim at plastic waste make their way through California’s legislature, the damage they intend to fix already is rippling through the state’s recycling economy. On Monday, rePlanet, a major ...

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Walters: Achievement Gap Question Still Unanswered

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 10, 2019

As a species, politicians tend to like inputs more than outcomes. It’s more fun, in political terms, to appropriate money for a new program or cut the ribbon of a new public works project than it is to delve into whether they actually performed as promised,...

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