Editorials

No Kings Early Vote Pits People Power Against Trump, Billionaires, and Big Tech

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor October 17 saw a demonstration like no other in American history—but not so strange in…

4 weeks ago

Taxing Billionaires To Fund Healthcare And Restore (Some) Fairness

  Proposition 40—the billionaire tax—has a dual character: what it is and what it symbolizes. What it is, on the…

4 weeks ago

Charter Reform 2.0: McOsker Heads Committee Writing Next Chapter

The saga of Los Angeles Charter reform began a new chapter on Sept. 30, with the first meeting of the…

4 weeks ago

The Scariest Halloween Is Always Before A November Election

For the past 10 years, the scariest Halloween has arrived every other year, and the one we’ve feared the most…

4 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Call for a True Arts District to Take Shape, PBID Ignores Local Artists, and Middleton Makes Her Case on Mayoral Vote

Arts District and the Commitment to Public Art    As a local business owner in downtown San Pedro, I want to…

4 weeks ago

The Renaissance of Mata Ortiz: How a Piece of Pottery Saved  the town of  Mata Ortiz in Chihuahua, Mexico

Spencer MacCallum was a slender, well-educated  man who, for reasons I was never quite sure of, ended up in San…

1 month ago

Hundreds Attend AltaSea’s Blue Hour Celebration

   ~ Editors note: an earlier version of this story read: Attendees contributed more than $50,000 to support AltaSea’s Ocean…

1 month ago

The Wonderful World of French Butter

  By Lynn Nishimura, Columnist  My previous article was about French cheese. But did you know how many  different things…

1 month ago

The Labor and History of Snow Peas

Specialty crops now require a greater labor force than ever. David Bacon, Oct. 7 https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2026/10/photos-from-edge-45-labor-history-of.html  Not long ago I pulled…

1 month ago

Oil Companies Ask Supreme Court For Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card

  For generations fossil fuel companies have known that their products were responsible for climate change as well as life-threatening…

1 month ago