Opinion

Our new ballot

In February, 2009, then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (you remember him?) was looking for one more vote in the California State Senate to get a compromise budget approved. The only Republican Senator willing to talk was Abel Maldonado. His price was [...]

SOUTH BRONX TO SOUTH BAY: Pecking Order

SOUTH BRONX TO SOUTH BAY: Pecking Order

Now that he’s beaten back his opponents and is marching unhindered to the Republican convention, I guess it’s time for me to write about Mitt Romney. But hell, it’s springtime, and the world is awash with color and newness. Who [...]

On Local Government: another conundrum

Six years ago, the Legal Establishment in Los Angeles County was horrified to find that someone had upset their well-planned apple cart. That year, an unknown non-practicing lawyer, Lynn Olson, decided she would stand for election to the Superior Court. [...]

Letters to the Editor [May 17]

Letters to the Editor [May 17]

Grateful patient Dear ER I recently had a sudden, unexpected close encounter with America’s health care system and I survived to tell my tale. It was a major event, one that could have been my last, and yet, from its [...]

Doctors weigh in regarding parents who refuse vaccinations for their children

By: Robert Kaplan, M.D. and Joel Widelitz, M.D. ,Kaplan & Widelitz Pediatrics, Christopher Babbitt, M.D., medical director, pediatric intensive care unit, Audra Devekis, M.D., medical director, infectious diseases, Gary Feldman, M.D, medical director, Stramski Children’s Developmental Center, Divya Joshi, M.D.,MMM, [...]

In Search of America

“NASA’s current organization does not provide effective checks and balances, does not have an independent safety program, and has not demonstrated the characteristics of a learning organization . . . Based on NASA’s history of ignoring external recommendations, or making [...]

The AES solution: better for Redondo Beach in every way?

The AES solution: better for Redondo Beach in every way?

by Eric Pendergraft
President, AES Southland

A modern, significantly smaller AES power plant promises to benefit every Redondo Beach resident. Unfortunately, concerns have been raised based on factual errors.

Here are the facts, as I see them.

Letters, March 22, 2012

Declining education Dear ER: Is this a Dickens’s character asking for more porridge please? The conscious optics are excellent without any concern for morality abstractly contrived, economically assured destruction, social justice using the phenomenal tools of Sol Alinsky, and Edward [...]