Buying votes
Performers censor themselves — fearing they might offend. Those who offend Hollywood lose work. Some lose friends.
Perhaps no California story this year was overblown more than a report from United Van Lines that seemed to show a huge outflow of California residents — into places like Vermont, South Dakota, South Carolina and West Virginia.
Going to the Department of Motor Vehicles can be an all-day event, but sometimes it’s necessary.
Some air travelers seemed to have lost their minds and manners for a while during the height of the COVID pandemic. From causing disruptions while in the air, to getting kicked off of flights to assaulting airline attendants, there was all types of bad behavior going on.
Stay in your lane
Despite their increasingly bitter differences, Democrats and Republicans generally agree that content moderation by social media companies is haphazard at best.
Here’s to 92
Have you noticed that the price of a fill-up is just a bit more than it was a few weeks ago, when we seemed to be saving just a little bit of money at the pump?
At a time when the American economy could use more people, restrictions on immigration continue to trap a lot of unused talent in low-productivity countries.
Election Day is Nov. 8, which really isn’t that far away, but for those who want to register to vote, the deadline is actually 15 days before the election, on Oct. 24.
President Joe Biden recently announced, with great fanfare, his Cancer Moonshot initiative.
Climate studies
When mayoral election results were finalized in Oakland, in 2018, there was unusually loud whining from the losers.
Like it or not, the United States is a melting pot of culture — and that’s one of the things that makes this country so great. Unfortunately, when it comes to elected officials, not all cultures receive representation — but that is changing.
The ship is in danger
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James Taylor and cake
There are still hundred of deaths, per day, in the United States due to COVID-19, but President Joe Biden said the pandemic is over.
A few months after 9/11, when US military action was underway in Afghanistan and an extensive war on terrorism loomed, Congress passed the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students, or HEROES, Act.
Last week, we heard about the Hollywood high school student that died on Sept. 13, after taking a pill laced with fentanyl. Another student was hospitalized in the same incident.
Stumping for Fox
Football players make money with their bodies. Some are injured. But football is legal.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, at a recent event with a liberal audience, praised Justice Clarence Thomas, her ideological adversary. Sotomayor said, “He is a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution.”
Pushing for more homes
A group of migrants, mainly originating from Venezuela, arrived at their new temporary home on Cape Cod, after an unexpected arrival, on Wednesday, on Martha’s Vineyard.
Democrats have long known one of the major realities of California politics: Far more voters turn out for November general elections, every two years, than in primary elections.
Stop mental suffering
If you think those ridiculously dangerous street exhibitions that happen around the Southland don’t happen in the Antelope Valley, think again.
‘Tech platforms are notoriously opaque,” the White House complained, last week, saying Americans deserve to know more about how online forums decide “when and how to remove content from their sites.”
P.T. Barnum allegedly once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
True or false?
Shortly after taking over as the new UK prime minister, Liz Truss announced plans to fight inflation by capping household energy prices over the next two years.
Forevermore
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Late last year, it wasn’t uncommon to go to a retail outlet to purchase something, only to find empty shelves. The lack of supplies was blamed on a back-up at the Port of Los Angeles.
What is it about those on the Left of the political spectrum that they seem to not just live in perpetual fear of apocalypse and doom but they actually embrace it? It is their raison d’etre.
We are so technologically advanced, that we can send messages to people thousands of miles away in mere seconds; we have access to a world of knowledge with a few computer keystrokes, cars can drive themselves and phones are mini computers that we carry in our pockets.
Too young to understand
If you’re a gambling man or woman (and two of this fall’s seven California ballot propositions are about gaming), don’t bet the house against either November’s Prop. 26 or Prop. 27.
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It’s not uncommon to have unhealthy air in the Antelope Valley.
What’s next?
The state of emergency declared in New York sounds familiar: at first it was something to be concerned about, but it quickly became more serious.
The advent of Labor Day generally brings a round of cheerleading for unions, and this year was no exception.
His opinion
Going electric
Starvation. Poverty. People struggling to buy medicine and fuel.
Decades from now, Joe Biden’s errors may not be forgotten, whether they relate to Afghanistan, the border or inflation. But whatever Biden has gotten wrong, posterity will remember that he was right about one critical matter: the dangers to democracy that arose in our time.
Last week, we first announced some major changes coming to the Antelope Valley Press effective Oct. 1.
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