A VERY SICK STATE!

While Californians were concentrating on the special election ballot measures, our lawmakers (both Assembly and Senate) were quietly passing the “Harvey Milk Gay Day” bill which (unless vetoed by the governor) will affect children as young as kindergarten.  SB 572 directs every public school in California to conduct “suitable commemorative exercises” every May 22nd in [...]

IT’S ONLY ONE VOTE – BUT IT’S MY VOTE!

My DMV renewal notice arrived in my mailbox on Wednesday, May 13th.  After opening it, and seeing how much more it’ll cost me to register my 1997 Chevy, it reminded me that I hdn’t yet filled out my absentee ballot.  I immediately put the DMV renewal form down, and opened the envelope containing my ’special election’ [...]

JUKEBOX SATURDAY NIGHT

The ever-popular “Jukebox Saturday Night” series, now in its ninth year, will return to the Paradise Performing Arts Center this Memorial Day weekend.  This nostalgia-filled event takes the audience back to the Big Band era and the time surrounding World War II. 
 The same basic show-series was originally called “Stage Door Canteen” and revived the feel [...]

FROM GOLDEN STATE-TO FOOL’S GOLD

For a scant few moments this past week, I felt that our state legislature had finally gotten the message.  Leadership begins at the top and painful cost-cutting measures should start there.  The reason for my jubilance came in the form of Senate Bill 44 which would’ve begun the elimination of those frivolous do-nothing boards and [...]