Category: Practical Politics

 Please forgive the cultural stereotype in today’s article title, but this writer couldn’t resist the metaphor. The real founders and remaining guardians of the modern democracy our public school instructors […]

By the time this week’s column comes out, the die will already have been cast. Mayor Karen Bass will either have been retained as L.A.’s mayor, as she rightfully should […]

No, quiet as it may seem, even with all the other rancor and noise continuing in California’s 2026 politics, the reparations issue has not yet died here.     Silently, or at […]

Given the very significance of personal voting in the U.S. system of democracy, and how difficult it has been for African Americans to have earned the regular legal right to […]

One thing to seriously note in our daily political bad news is that we all know that “this, too, must surely end.”  The more or less comfortable world we’d all […]

On Sept. 15, election officials in several U.S. states, particularly those that use mail-in voting as a major part of their regular election procedures, especially our own California,  plus Colorado, […]

“While architects are primarily focused on the aesthetic and functional design of buildings (and other entities)–that is, conceptualizing and actually envisioning the building design and how the parts fit and […]

My grandmother used to tell me, “It’s music and culture that’s gonna save you’all, or it’s the politics and quarrelin’ and always ready for war that’ll eventually kill all ya’ll.. […]

Similiar to the Academy Awards show a few years ago, when Will Smith grabbed all the headlines for ‘slapping the *** out of a Black comedian who had just made […]

Our current POTUS has clearly done some very bizarre things since he’s been in charge this second time around. One of those things is the continuing attempt to “sue himself” […]