Los Angeles TimesNowEditorial: California still hasn’t fixed its undemocratic recall rulesverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardA fringe conservative group has launched yet another recall targeting Gov. Gavin Newsom for — well, for the same reasons as the six times before. If history is any guide, the petition drive will fizzle out long before it gathers the more than 1.3 million valid signatures required by the 160-day …
Los Angeles Times2 hours agoOpinion: California has to worry about measles again. But there’s hopeverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - By Abraar Karan and Julie ParsonnetThe measles virus is resurging in the U.S. despite the long-standing availability of a vaccine that provides nearly life-long immunity. In the past few weeks, hundreds of people were exposed to a child with the virus in a Northern California healthcare facility; our state is one of 17 jurisdictions …
Los Angeles Times2 hours agoLetters to the Editor: You can love Israel and want Netanyahu gone at the same timeverified_publisherLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: There’s an old joke that the definition of mixed emotions is watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Mercedes. (“Schumer calls for new elections in Israel, saying Netanyahu has ‘lost his way,’ ” March 14) My love for and support of Israel are unabated. In contrast, I …
Los Angeles Times2 hours agoLetters to the Editor: How to be a community elder after losing your spouseverified_publisherLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: I loved Bruce Wexler’s poignant op-ed article about living alone for the first time in more than 40 years after his wife’s death. I have a suggestion. Wexler is obviously gifted as a veteran writer. He can claim the role of elder and begin “eldering” with others of any age in his …
Los Angeles Times2 hours agoColumn: Why is Biden spending quality time in Michigan’s Saginaw County? Here’s what he told meverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - LZ GrandersonSAGINAW, Mich. — Five states went from red to blue in 2020. My home state, Michigan, is one of them. Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania are the others. Within that fab five, just eight counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 flipped for President Biden in 2020. One such county is …
Los Angeles Times2 hours agoLetters to the Editor: ‘He just says stuff’: Do far-right Trump supporters not hear themselves?verified_publisherLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: “He just says stuff. He doesn’t mean it.” So says a die-hard Trump supporter from the San Joaquin Valley town of Hanford about the former president claiming he wants to be a dictator on his first day in office. Similar defenses of Donald Trump that I’ve heard include, “He says stupid …