Opinion

The Hidden Costs of the Big Data Surveillance Complex

Whether the public realizes it or not, the environment and citizens are being polluted by the actions of private tech…

4 months ago

Economic Terror and the TURBOCHUGGF*CK In Texas

Extreme weather terror, or turbochuggf*cks in the vernacular, is most recently evident in July 2025, in the human catastrophes caused…

4 months ago

CEQA Reform Deserved Transparency, Not a Backroom Deal

What we opposed, firmly, was the last-minute insertion of sweeping CEQA reform language drawn from Assembly Bill 609 (Wicks) into…

5 months ago

Welcome to “The Kill Zone”

Life and Death, Courtesy of Jones Chemicals in the Harbor Gateway By Rick Thomas, Columnist and Harbor Gateway Community Activist…

5 months ago

Demonizing Immigration, Bowing to Oligarchy

If you were the person in charge of carrying out the orders to deport people here who are undocumented, and…

6 months ago

Why Educators Oppose AB715 by Maya Suzuki Daniels

Silence is not education. Ignoring hard topics won’t help us heal. Education is how we bridge divides. On behalf of…

7 months ago

From Geronimo Pratt to the Menendez Brothers

Resentencing was set for December 2024, but delays due to procedural issues and wildfires pushed it back. After Hochman took…

7 months ago

American Concentration Camps

ICE is swiftly evolving into our homegrown version of the Gestapo or The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). It…

8 months ago

All Governments Lie

We have to sort of lift the bonnet, as it were, and in a way that newspapers aren’t used to…

8 months ago

Trump’s Speech

At this particular moment in history, despair is not an option. None of us have the privilege of hiding under…

9 months ago