Here is a touching story by Steve Lopez from the Los Angeles Times about a woman named Juana Jauregui who runs a daycare center at her East Los Angeles home and her dedication to children. Most of the kids who go to Jauregui’s daycare speak Spanish at home, but she speaks and reads English to […]

By Luis Alvarado, President of Familias Unidas de California Governor Brown has seen it all before. Severe drought conditions that plagued the state in 1976-1977 looked eerily familiar to the California’s most recent drought. On both occasions, Governor Brown took the initiative to declaring a state of emergency. In 2014, with California experiencing such unpredictable […]

Fox & Hounds By: Michael Vallante This year, there is a reason to celebrate on April 17th: the simpler, fairer, tax system is making a real difference for families and businesses. As a result of the Tax Reform Act passed last year by Congress, Americans are more optimistic about the economy than they’ve been in […]

By: Renee Pinel A recent opinion article on glyphosate is a classic example of the environmental community’s awkward relationship with science and facts (“Don’t let EPA and Monsanto hide the truth on Roundup,” Viewpoints, Jan. 17). When it comes to climate change, the enviros are all in. But for everything else, science apparently doesn’t matter. […]

By: Hector M. Barajas Might you want to vilify a company, ban their product from the marketplace or force them to re-label a chemical as cancer causing so you can sue the hell out of them? WHO did, so now you can too. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency of Research on Cancer (IARC) […]

Over the past year, environmental activists involved with groups such as Safe Ag Safe Schools and Safe Strawberry Monterey County Working Group, have taken up the crusade to ban pesticides in California using missing and incomplete science. One such member, Carole Erickson, a retired and somewhat active Public Health Nurse/Educator, promoted here discredited study to […]

By Damon Dunn The U.S. economy has undergone major shifts from the time of our founding, transitioning from agriculture to manufacturing to services now comprising the majority of our economic output. Free market advocates have rightly pointed out that our economic growth has occurred as a result of free enterprise; by millions of individuals communicating […]

By: Beth Chapman AUGUST 17, 2017 An open letter to the rapper Common: We are sure you are sincere and passionate in your desire to hold your concert in Sacramento on Monday to raise awareness for justice reform. But to the extent your advocacy worsens the downsides of existing reforms, or promotes questionable new ones now before […]

You could not invent a higher level of irony and hypocrisy than what the United Farm Workers of America union (UFW) has put on display the past year. Currently the UFW has announced it is endorsing Richard Trujillo, over incumbent Democratic State Senator Connie Leyva for failing to vote for Assembly 1066, which forced overtime rules […]

By Jeff Flores The lunchtime meal is being handed its own lunch – thanks to increased costs that are keeping workers eating at their desks instead of in restaurants. In 2016, Americans made 433 million fewer lunchtime trips to restaurants than in 2015, creating a $3.2 billion loss in revenue. Yet the population continues to […]