[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times “So what we’re going to do now is label our triangles,” student teacher Keiri Ramirez told her class at Northridge Academy High School. “A prime, B prime and C prime.” Ramirez, inspired by her middle-school teacher in Huntington Park, is about to graduate from Cal State...
Americans Have Failed People With Mental Illness. Trump’s New Budget Will Change That.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription President Trump is exceptionally focused on fighting for Americans who can’t fight for themselves and confronting problems other administrations, Democratic and Republican, have ignored. This is particularly true for Americans who suffer from addiction and serious mental disorders. In this year’s budget, President Trump is...
Why Democratic Candidates Haven’t Been Able to Energize Voters
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription After the debacle of the Iowa caucuses, the old quip attributed to Will Rogers seems just right: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” Actually, that broad Democratic coalition encompassing Southern segregationists, working-class union members and Northern liberals...
The Warm California Sun Needs to Shine in The Dark Corners of Government Operations
Gov. Gavin Newsom promised greater transparency in California government. Jerry Brown was elected secretary of state 50 years ago on a transparency platform. While serving one of his terms in what nearly turned out to be a “governor-for-life” political career, Brown said he was “committed to keeping state government open...
Trump’s Middle East Plan: Starting Point or Dead End?
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription Of the many proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian peace rolled out over the decades, circumstances made the one President Trump announced on Tuesday the hardest to take seriously. While Mr. Trump outlined what he described as his “vision” for a Mideast peace in the gilded...
Debating Trump’s Economic Boom
[aggregation-styles] CNN: Fareed's Global Briefing Subscription With his impeachment acquittal on the horizon, Peter Baker writes for The New York Times, President Trump used his State of the Union address to stump for reelection—and his case rests on an economic boom. Three years into Trump’s presidency, US unemployment at its...
Hope For Humanitarian Trade With Iran
[aggregation-styles] Bloomberg Subscription On Thursday, Swiss authorities announced that they had processed a pilot transaction through the Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), a new payment channel that intends to ease the sale of food and medicine to Iran by Swiss companies. Work on this channel began in late 2018 following...
'I Was a Homeless Asylum Seeker; Now I Work and Save Over $1,000 a Month'
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian I was forced to flee Iran when I converted to Christianity. I could have been imprisoned or killed because of my beliefs. I didn’t want to leave Iran – I’d graduated and was just starting to build a career as a survey engineer but there was no...
California's Most Controversial Homebuilding Bill, SB50, Just Died. What's Next?
[aggregation-styles] LAist Developers, landlords, Facebook, construction unions, the state Chamber of Commerce, Realtors, environmental groups and even the AARP wanted to see the bill pass. So did big city mayors including San Francisco's London Breed and San Jose's Sam Liccardo. Not to mention Sen. Toni Atkins, Democratic leader of the...
Trump and Netanyahu Dictate Terms of Palestinian Surrender to Israel and Call It Peace
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept Flanked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but no Palestinian leader, President Donald Trump unveiled “a vision for peace” in the Middle East on Tuesday which permits Israel to annex much of the occupied West Bank immediately, offering the Palestinians only local control in isolated Bantustans surrounded...