Our high schools are broken. National scores compare poorly to other industrialized nations but beneath that there is an underlying pressure to succeed that is exhausting the students, robbing them of their childhood, and even driving them to commit suicide. This is the narrative and the conclusion ...

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How viewing ourselves as housepets has left us fighting like cats and dogs Sometimes when we make fun of others we end up saying more about ourselves. A friend recently tagged me when posting this cartoon on my Facebook timeline. It is from a website called LeftyCartoons where ...

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Last week we commented on the road ahead from the Kelly Thomas case and it’s aftermath. We said that the issue behind this case was the right that Kelly Thomas was denied, that it was the most basic of rights, the right to life. We said it was the most basic right because it could not be exchanged f...

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There have been comments from readers that perhaps it would be better not to report to our citizens on the unfortunate events of July 5th at our Transportation Plaza and later in our City Hall. They said that perhaps everything was working as planned and that there was no oversight needed. Perhaps t...

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One word that was mentioned regularly during the most recent City Council campaign season was “transparency”. Interestingly, it has returned to the front of the newspapers because of a lack of transparency in the Kelly Thomas beating case. But what is transparency? And why is it good? Transparency ...

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Politics in our town is changing. It is going through a quite painful process of introspection in our Police Department and our City Hall. The sequence of events that followed the tragic beating of Kelly Thomas have revealed a uncomfortable lack of accountability and an almost total lack of transpar...

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The traffic snarl of biblical proportions not only failed to appear this last weekend, it may have taught us something valuable about how much we commute, and why we live in Fullerton. The news stories leading up to last weekend’s planned shut-down of the 405 were so fearful they scared people in o...

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As revolutions break out all around the world citizens of Fullerton take a day to reflect on the revolution that brought us here. This Independence Day comes at a time when we can see the forces that drive people to rebel erupting in many nations where last year we would have thought it impossible....

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I feel like I am looking at the landscape from the comfort of the fifth floor of a tall building after a global economic meltdown. All the windows are blown out from vandalism and I know that soon I will have to descend down there and produce consumables. I realized I have no idea how [...]

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