Editorial & Opinion Archives - Eastern Group Publications/EGPNews

May, 2017

May 25 Trump and Congress Need to Feel Our Pain

May 25 Vernon: A Changed City

May 25 Sheriff’s Substation Is the Answer to Many Questions

May 18 The Power of a Birth Certificate

May 18 When Hate Speech Became a Movement

May 11 NAFTA Cars Are Not ‘Foreign Made’ Cars

May 11 Sheriff’s Substation Proposal Raises More Questions than Answers

May 04 EGP Endorsements: City of Los Angeles General Election

March, 2017

Mar 30 Editorial Cartoon

Mar 30 Tuesday’s 34th Congressional Special Election is a Rare Chance for New Leadership

Mar 30 Supporting a College-Ready L.A.

Mar 30 Sanctuary Cities and DoJ Funding: The Hypocrisy of Jeff Sessions

Mar 23 Repealing the ACA Would Hurt Mental Health Care

Mar 23 Trump Bump Respects Constitution

Mar 23 Funny, There Are No Workers on the White House Jobs Panel

Mar 23 Underwater Nation

Mar 16 Taking a Stand Against Toxic Secondhand Smoke

Mar 10 To Close the Digital Divide, Fund Community Organizations

Mar 10 Editorial Cartoon

Mar 10 A Double Deuce to Working Families (and Math)

Mar 02 Part 2: EGP Ballot Recommendations for March 7 Primary Election

February, 2017

Feb 23 EGP Ballot Recommendations for March 7 Primary Election

Feb 16 The Absurd Consequences of a ‘Right to Privacy’

Feb 16 To Save Main Street, Tax Wall Street

Feb 16 The End of an Alliance for Police Reform

Feb 10 Affordable Care Act: GOP Beginning to See Reality?

Feb 10 Authoritarian Bumbling

Feb 02 Mexico Hits Trump’s Wall

Feb 02 The Next Step in Entitlement Reform Should Not Get the Government More Involved

January, 2017

Jan 19 Trump Presidency Comes With Uncertainty – Let’s Hope that Changes

Jan 19 If You’re Against Immigrants, You’re Against My Grandma

Jan 19 The Real Danger of Trump’s Alleged ‘Pee Party’

Jan 12 National Day of Racial Healing Will Help Americans Heal and Overcome Deep Racial Divisions

Jan 12 A War on Regulations

December, 2016

Dec 22 Be Kind, Be Generous, Be at Peace

Dec 22 A Holiday Wish List for L.A. County’s Over Burdened Foster Care System

Dec 21 Peace On Earth, By Whatever Name

Dec 21 Dumping the Electoral College Would Not be Good for Hispanics

Dec 15 Viva La Revolucion

Dec 15 It’s Time to Revisit the Gang Violence Reduction Project

Dec 15 Gateway City Residents Need Relief From Infrastructure Inequities

Dec 07 Who Voted for Wall Street?

Dec 07 State Leaders Must Continue to Promote Clean Energy

Dec 07 On the Ground in Standing Rock

Dec 01 Poor Insurance Endangers America’s Physical and Financial Health

Dec 01 With Winter Weather Ahead, We Need Reliable Energy

Dec 01 California Hispanic Republicans Moving Up

November, 2016

Nov 23 We Need This Thanksgiving

Nov 22 Can California’s Taxpayers Be Thankful for 2016?

Nov 22 The Bourgeois’ Dilemma

Nov 17 Airbnb: Not the Partner Our Community Needs

Nov 17 Exit Polls Misrepresent the Latino Vote

Nov 17 Landlords and Little People

Nov 17 Editorial Cartoon

Nov 17 This Doesn’t Sound Like Our Voice

Nov 10 Can the Country Heal Under Trump? We Hope So.

Nov 10 November 8, 2016 Election Results

Nov 03 The FBI’s ‘October Surprise’

Nov 03 Say No to Measure M and Start Over

Nov 03 Prop. 60 Will Fight Sexually Transmitted Diseases

October, 2016

Oct 27 The Worst Thing That Could Come Out of the Election: ‘Latinos Didn’t Vote’

Oct 26 An Appetite for Action on Tax Reform

Oct 21 Southeast LA Deserves Its Fair Share of Measure M Funding

Oct 20 Part 2: EGP Ballot Recommendations Nov. 8 General Election

Oct 13 EGP Ballot Recommendations – Nov. 8 General Election

September, 2016

Sep 22 Wells Fargo Fraud Is Stark Reminder of Need for Tougher Rules

Sep 15 Becoming a U.S. Citizen During Constitution Week

Sep 15 Convertirse en un ciudadano estadounidense durante la Semana de la Constitución

Sep 08 Community Calendar: Sept. 8, 2016-Sept. 14, 2016

Sep 08 The EpiPen Debacle Is Just One Example of Drug Companies Run Amuck

Sep 08 Hispanics Massing to Vote Against Trump

Sep 08 State Legislature Aids Business at End of 2015-2016 Session

Sep 01 Honoring a True Warrior

Sep 01 The Cure for A Taxing Allergy

Sep 01 En tiempos de pérdida: Juan Gabriel como ídolo gay, mexicano, y compañero de todas

August, 2016

Aug 25 Police Videos Should Be Routinely Released to the Public

Aug 25 Where Has All the Money for Our Schools Gone?

Aug 25 The Hidden Homeless Population

Aug 11 At Any Other Time … Substance Would Have Outweighed Political Gaffes

Aug 11 America’s Racial Wealth Divide Is Nothing Short of Shocking

Aug 11 Donald Trump’s Detroit Ignorance on Trade

Aug 04 Mexicans, Chinese and Muslims Fight for America

Aug 04 $400 Million: The Partial Price of Peace?

July, 2016

Jul 28 County Needs to Protect Southeast L.A., Not Just Porter Ranch

Jul 28 A Bold Transportation Plan

Jul 21 More Baton Rouge Incidents Could Elect Trump

Jul 14 What About a Tax On Marijuana Businesses?

Jul 14 Still Second-Class Citizens

Jul 14 Is the Party Over for Republicans?

Jul 07 For Many, This 4th of July Was Akin to a War Zone

Jul 07 $30 Billion Dollars in Losses, 24 Million Victims: Just Once, I Would Like to See Wall Street Held Accountable

Jul 07 To Stop ‘Bomb Trains,’ I Honeymooned in Jail

Jul 01 We Must be Vigilant Against Terrorism — and Hatred

June, 2016

Jun 30 Q&A: Sup. Hilda Solis On Why L.A. County Parks Matter

Jun 23 Illegal Use of Powerful Fireworks Puts Community At Risk

Jun 23 Proposed Medicare Changes Sacrifice Cancer Patients for Cost Savings

Jun 23 Welcome to Half Dome, Sponsored by Nike

Jun 16 Will Donald Trump End America’s Civil Society?

Jun 16 Rape, Culture, Responsibility, and Brock Turner

Jun 16 Bring Back the Assault Weapons Ban

Jun 09 We Deserve More than Shameful Shenanigans from Trump

Jun 09 June 7, 2016 Primary Election Preliminary Results

Jun 09 Tech Companies Need to Stop Bankrolling Hate

Jun 02 EGP Ballot Recommendations for June 7, 2016 Primary Election

May, 2016

May 26 EGP Ballot Recommendations – June 7 Primary

May 26 Reading Between the Grammatically Incorrect Lines

May 19 Loretta Sanchez for U.S. Senate

May 12 Hispanic Millennials Saying ‘Adios’ to Spanglish

May 12 It’s Getting Harder to Govern, And It’s Not Just Politicians’ Fault

May 05 Trump Owes Voters More Specifics

May 05 Running American Guns to Mexico

April, 2016

Apr 28 It’s Getting Harder to Govern, And It’s Not Just Politicians’ Fault

Apr 28 Editorial Cartoon

Apr 28 Inequality Will Get Worse Until There’s a Revolution

Apr 28 Crime Can Pay if It’s Big Enough

Apr 21 Supreme Court Justices Should Uphold President’s Actions on Immigration

Apr 21 Commerce Council Must Follow CEQA

Apr 21 Commerce: Where Interest and Opportunity Meet

Apr 14 Dedicated Facilities Needed to Treat Lead Exposure

Apr 14 How to Kill America’s Tech Economy in One Lesson

Apr 14 Editorial Cartoon

Apr 14 If Trump Is GOP Nominee, Which Democrat is Mostly Likely to Beat Him

Apr 07 A Void Newspapers Still Fill In Today’s Society

Apr 07 Editorial Cartoon

Apr 07 Operation Paul Ryan

Apr 07 Trump Attacks Mexico, Stabs Farmers on Trade

August, 2015

Aug 13 How Do You Divide Already Crowded Roads and Streets?

Aug 13 Not Enough Americans Do Dirty Jobs

Aug 13 The Voting Rights Act Turns 50. And Also 40.

Aug 06 All Traffic Laws Need to Be Reinforced

Aug 06 This Time Was Supposed to Be Different

Aug 06 Supporters of Diplomacy over War Must Speak Up

Aug 06 Getting Latino Leaders to Get Latinos to Vote

July, 2015

Jul 30 Roosevelt HS Needs Collaboration, Not Alienation

Jul 30 The New Crisis at Roosevelt High School: A Call to Action

Jul 30 A Hidden Hand in Obesity

Jul 21 Minimum Wage Hike Would Cut County’s ‘Safety Net’ Costs

Jul 16 Seizure of Property Prior to Conviction Really Not Fair

Jul 16 Continuing to Fall Short on LCFF Transparency

Jul 16 Lighting a Legal Fuse

Jul 16 State & Feds Must Address Transportation Funding Crisis

Jul 09 Chicana Service Action Center: So Disappointing If It’s All True

Jul 09 You Sir, Are Fired

Jul 09 Trump: A Joker in the GOP’s Presidential Deck

Jul 01 Extreme Drought Adds Danger to Fourth of July

Jul 01 The Pope Needs to Go Even Further on the Environment

Jul 01 The Great and Needed Tension of Our Democracy

June, 2015

Jun 25 It’s Time to Close 710 Gap, But Not With Light Rail

Jun 25 Jeb, Marco and the Donald

Jun 18 Terminally Ill Californians in Agony Need Aid-in-Dying Option

Jun 18 Paying the Pink Tax

Jun 18 Letter to the Editor: Bell Gardens ‘Betting on Casino Hotel’

Jun 18 Dishing out Poverty Wages on Capitol Hill

Jun 11 We Need Common Sense When It Comes to Sharing the Road

Jun 11 Odd Bedfellows for Liberty

Jun 11 Government by Bagmen

Jun 04 Even Our Pets Have Houses

Jun 04 A ‘3/5ths’ Person is Now Zero

May, 2015

May 28 Artificial Pepper — Who Knew?

May 28 Augmentation Needed to State Budget for CalWORKs Housing Support Program

May 21 NSA Surveillance Intrudes On Our Freedom

May 21 Why Continue Celebrating Memorial Day

May 21 A Fossil-Fueled Fantasy

May 18 ‘Ref’ Rodriguez for LAUSD School Board

May 18 Closing the Door on Torture

May 18 Our Children Are Not for Sale

May 07 Coddling the Rich

May 07 The For Profit College Scam

May 07 Historically, Change In Our Communities Hasn’t Been Fair or Adequate

April, 2015

Apr 30 Let’s Clean Up the Place

Apr 30 Hispanic Exit Polls Fall Short

Apr 30 Debt Forgiveness: End the Student Loan Industrial Complex

Apr 23 Respecting School Choice: No Need for Villians

Apr 23 Why We Need $50,000 Traffic Tickets

Apr 23 PETA’s Cruel and Unusual Crush

Apr 16 Targeted Policing A Good Goal

Apr 16 Don’t Let This Cable Giant Stamp Out Democracy

Apr 16 Parental Equality Post-Divorce Offers Solution to Gender Pay Inequality

Apr 09 Water Use Goes Up: Shame On Us

Apr 09 Stark Choices: People’s Budget vs. Republican Plan

Apr 09 A Higher Education Revolution

Apr 02 Easter and Passover Wishes

Apr 02 Green Jobs: The Promise and the Reality of AB 32

Apr 02 California Climate Policy Changing Latino Lives for the Better

March, 2015

Mar 26 Parents Need to Guard Their Child’s Privacy

Mar 26 Household Debt Is a National Crisis

Mar 26 Becoming ‘A Thing Apart’ is the Story of Government

Mar 19 Exide to Close, Now What?

Mar 19 Standing Up for Our Neighbors

Mar 19 No, It Is Not Wrong to Celebrate Cesar Chavez Day!

Mar 12 Later Start to LAUSD School Year a Good Decision

Mar 12 Total Recall: Bad for the Working Poor

Mar 12 California’s First U.S. Hispanic Senator

Mar 05 This Trade Deal Will Make You Sick

Mar 05 Kissing the Koch Ring

February, 2015

Feb 26 Ballot Recommendations LAUSD, Commerce, L.A. Charter Amendments

Feb 26 Los Angeles County’s Next 4th District Supervisor Should be Latino

Feb 19 Jose Huizar for Los Angeles City Council District 14

Feb 19 Protect America: Pass a Clean Homeland Security Budget Now

Feb 05 Community College Degrees: A Great Choice For Some Students

January, 2015

Jan 29 Zero Tolerance for Carrying Knives To Schools

Jan 29 California Needs Cost-Effective Clean Energy Now

Jan 29 Hispanics and Network News

Jan 22 The Beginning of the End of the Public University

Jan 22 The U.S. Economy in 2015: Challenges and Opportunities

Jan 22 It’s Only Censorship When They Do It

Jan 16 Let’s Move Forward on the Sale of Ontario International Airport

Jan 16 A Muslim Cartoonist Draws Lessons from the Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Jan 08 Lara’s ‘Health Care for All’ Bill Is a Sensible Undertaking

Jan 08 California Comeback or Continuing Crisis?

Jan 08 The Visa Curse

Jan 01 Four Ways 2014 Was a Pivotal Year for the Internet

December, 2014

Dec 31 A Happy New Year Wish For Our Readers

Dec 31 2014: A Boring/Interesting Year for Hispanics

Dec 25 In the Midst of Joy, Tragic Reminders

Dec 25 Peace is Goodwill

Dec 25 The Best Christmas Ever

Dec 18 Remembering the Greediest Americans this Holiday Season

Dec 18 Getting Away with Torture

Dec 11 US Senate CIA Torture Report: The Truth Is Our Best Value

Dec 11 These Boots Were Made for Waiting

Dec 11 The Season for Mindless Consumerism

Dec 04 A New Day For Los Angeles County Government

Dec 04 Too Big to Ignore

Dec 04 Editorial Cartoon

Dec 04 Attacks on Herbalife Are Attacks on Businesses Like Mine

November, 2014

Nov 27

Nov 26 Does This Definition Make Me Look Rich?

Nov 20 President to Break Immigration Status Quo Today: It’s About Time

Nov 20 Can Hispanics Survive Obama’s Political Suicide?

Nov 20 Exchange Plans are Failing America’s Most Vulnerable

Nov 13 Ebola Scare Should Be the Start to Halting Spread of Other Dangerous Infections

Nov 13 Taking Stock of the Money Midterms

Nov 13 Leave No Generation Behind

Nov 06 Insurance Commissioner Left Without Bully Pulpit on Health Insurance

Nov 06 What Would the Founders Do?

Nov 06 A Difficult Season

Nov 06 Lack of Port Agreement a Threat to Christmas and the New Year

October, 2014

Oct 30 EGP General Election Ballot Recommendations: Part 2

Oct 23 Nov. 4 General Election Ballot Recommendations

Oct 23 Viewing Political Corruption More Broadly

Oct 16 LAUSD Fiascos-Plenty of Blame to Go Around

Oct 16 Ethnic Studies Now

Oct 16 Here Come the Rain and Drought

Oct 09 Feds Should Delay Action on Jails to After Nov. Election

Oct 09 It Takes a Mentor

Oct 09 Troubling Lack of Diversity In Environmental Movement

Oct 09 If it Yelps, Let it Go

Oct 02 California Bans the Plastic Bag

Oct 02 Hispanic Choices of Political Party

Oct 02 November’s Elections Won’t Resolve Much of Anything

Oct 02 The Nouveau Sodbusters

September, 2014

Sep 25 Property Owners Losing More than Termites to Fumigation

Sep 25 Some Serious Potty Talk

Sep 25 What UN World Leaders Can Learn from California’s Climate Law

Sep 25 Why Police Should Wear Body Cameras

Sep 18 Some Good News,Some Troubling News for Latinos

Sep 18 Gov. Should Sign AB 2384: An Important Step In Improving Schools

Sep 18 Time to Recognize Hispanic Contributions

Sep 18 Ted Cruz Dreams Up Assorted Fossil Fuel Favors

Sep 11 Latino Heritage Month: Perfect Time to Launch Push to the Polls

Sep 11 The President Chickened Out!

Sep 11 Political Governance and Natural Boundaries

Sep 04 Do You Want Some Hogwash with That Burger?

Sep 04 To Be Well-Informed, Ignore Political Ads

Sep 04 Why Government Openness Matters

August, 2014

Aug 28 Is DMV Ready to Handle Jan. 1, 2015 Crowd

Aug 28 More Voter Participation, Here’s Another Idea

Aug 28 Mexicans Aren’t White: Mexicans Are White

Aug 28 There They Go Again

Aug 21 Let’s Revive Neighborhood Watch

Aug 21 Ferguson Exposes the Creeping Militarization of Police Forces

Aug 21 50 Years Later, ‘Upward Bound’ Still Vital

Aug 14 New School Funding Demands Vigilant Oversight

Aug 14 Here Comes the Sun – Cash – America’s Solar Powered Con

Aug 14 California Businesses Need Stronger Federal Clean Water Rules

Aug 07 A Prickly Question In the Golden State

Aug 07 Immigration Reform by Treaty

Aug 07 Why Incumbents Keep Getting Reelected

July, 2014

Jul 31 DWP Infrastructure Failures Not Rate Payers Fault

Jul 31 Putting the Central American Children’s Migration In Context

Jul 24 Water Not a Drop to Spare

Jul 24 Running for Their Lives: The Child Migrant Crisis

Jul 24 The Darker Side of Sunblock

Jul 17 How Do We Fight Back? Turn the Other Cheek? Take a Toke?

Jul 17 Illegal Immigration, How Many Will the Boat Hold?

Jul 17 LULAC Misguided In Herbalife Fight

Jul 10 Child Immigration Crisis Cries Out for Humane Response

Jul 10 Speech in the Digital Age

Jul 10 Remembering Bobby Castillo, Dodger Pitcher & Legend

Jul 03 A Happy 4th of July To All

Jul 03 On Government As ‘The Things We Decide to Do Together’

Jul 03 Enjoy the Barbecue

June, 2014

Jun 26 Archived: Semi Trucks May Be the Cause of Potholed Highland Park Alley

Jun 26 Archived: Education Techniques for Teaching Ex-offenders or Returning Citizens

Jun 26 Archived: The Next Steps for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Jun 19 Archived: What Democrats Can Learn from Cantor’s Loss

Jun 19 Archived: Blame Cantor, Not Immigration

Jun 19 Archived: Unemployment Statistics are State Propaganda

Jun 12 Archived: Decision Striking Down Teacher Tenure Is Right Call

Jun 12 Archived: Why the Las Vegas Shooters Ran Loose

Jun 12 Archived: How to Get and Keep Women’s Attention and Support

May, 2014

May 29 Archived: EGP Endorsements – June 3 Primary Election

May 29 Archived: Naturalization – Do It for Your Family

May 29 Archived: A Bump in the Road for Hillary Clinton

May 29 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

May 22 Archived: EGP Endorsements – June 3 Primary Election

May 22 Archived: Soda Warning Label: A Great Collaboration Between Health and Education

May 15 Archived: Solis Best Choice for L.A. County Supervisor In First District

May 15 Archived: Get Ready for More of the Same

May 15 Archived: Laws Singling Out Soda Labels Will Not Solve Obesity Problem

May 08 Archived: Donald T. Sterling is No Aberration

May 08 Archived: Keeping It Real About Tax Subsidies

May 08 Archived: When Corporations Get Too Big to Tax

April, 2014

Apr 24 Archived: A Solution to Non Immunization is Needed

Apr 24 Archived: South L.A. and East L.A. Demand LAUSD Target LCFF Dollars toward High Need Schools

Apr 24 Archived: Armed Thugs Ignore the Rule of Law

Apr 17 Archived: L.A Mayor’s 2014 Budget Leaves Out Small Businesses

Apr 17 Archived: Ryan’s Joke Is on Us

Apr 17 Archived: This is what one dollar, one vote looks like

Apr 17 Archived: A Reasonable U.S. Senator, Rand Paul

Apr 10 Archived: Subsidies for Developers: The Same Old Tired Strategy?

Apr 10 Archived: Immigration Reform: Diversity is Good for Business, the Economy

Apr 10 Archived: Letting Corporations Skate on Taxes Undermines Life on Main Street

Apr 10 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Apr 03 Archived: Tech Titans Must Do More than Criticize NSA Snooping

Apr 03 Archived: Energy Export Reform Will Power Job Creation and Benefit Consumers and Taxpayers

Apr 03 Archived: Changing our Climate of Indifference

Apr 03 Archived: From our Readers

March, 2014

Mar 27 Archived: The Possibility That Marijuana Could Be Legalized Should Have Local Officials Scrambling to Prepare

Mar 27 Archived: How Medicaid Fails Hispanics

Mar 27 Archived: The High Price of Laziness

Mar 27 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Mar 20 Archived: Should L.A. Consider A Sales-Tax Hike?

Mar 20 Archived: Deporter-In-Chief

Mar 20 Archived: How Borders Enable State Criminality

Mar 13 Archived: Crunch Time for Covered California

Mar 13 Archived: Cry a River over California’s Drought

Mar 13 Archived: The War on Veterans

Mar 06 Archived: Reviewing Nursing Home Investigation Policy a Good Move

Mar 06 Archived: Calderon Scandal Shows Reform Efforts Lacking

Mar 06 Archived: Why You Should Fear Big Bad Cable

Mar 06 Archived: From Our Readers

February, 2014

Feb 27 Archived: Just Because Something Is Legal Doesn’t Make it Moral

Feb 27 Archived: Saving Our Blue Future

Feb 27 Archived: Left Leaning Author’s ‘Assortive Mating’ Theory is ‘Silliness’

Feb 20 Archived: Dated Food Products Confuse Customers, Lead to Waste

Feb 20 Archived: There’s an Alternative to the Imperial Presidency

Feb 20 Archived: Freedom’s Just Another Word for the State Doesn’t Perceive a Threat

Feb 13 Archived: Time to Clear the Air Mr. D’Arcy? Yes, Please Do

Feb 13 Archived: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Feb 13 Archived: Critical Lifeline Lost When Unemployment Benefits End

Feb 06 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Feb 06 Archived: America the Beautiful for the 21st Century

Feb 06 Archived: Time to Invest In Future Environmental Voters of Color

January, 2014

Jan 30 Archived: President Says Country On the Mend, But Problems Remain

Jan 30 Archived: The Minimum We Can Do to Fight Inequality

Jan 30 Archived: Environmental Leaders Are Looking More Like Scam Artists These Days

Jan 23 Archived: Covered California Outreach to Latinos Inadequate

Jan 23 Archived: Lawmakers Are Free to Become Narcissistic Jerks

Jan 23 Archived: Restoring Our Golden Promise

Jan 16 Archived: Time to Stop Grandstanding and Approve Unemployment Extension

Jan 16 Archived: Trust … But Definitely Verify

Jan 16 Archived: Letter to the Editor: Stop Feeding Unsuspecting Readers Socialist Propoganda

Jan 09 Archived: Why Now, Baca? No Matter, A New Leader Is Needed

Jan 09 Archived: Letter to the Editor: Vernon Has Remained Vigilant When it Comes to Exide

Jan 09 Archived: Myth of Minimum Wage as Job Killer Persists

Jan 02 Archived: DUI Arrests Show Need to Continue Enforcement, Education In New Year

Jan 02 Archived: The Trillion-Dollar Question

December, 2013

Dec 19 Archived: A Message From EGPNews

Dec 19 Archived: Every Child Deserves a Family

Dec 19 Archived: Thought Crimes, School Shootings and the State

Dec 12 Archived: It Is Time to Hold Sheriff’s Dept. Accountable for Its Bad Apples

Dec 12 Archived: Ted Williams: Mexican American Baseball Superstar, War Hero

Dec 12 Archived: Our Health Depends on a Clean Environment

Dec 05 Archived: Failing to Prove Students Are Poor, Could Cause Harm

Dec 05 Archived: The Mexicans Are Coming! The Mexicans Are coming!

Dec 05 Archived: There’s Another Train Wreck Headed for the White House

November, 2013

Nov 27 Archived: Happy Thanksgiving and Hanukkah

Nov 27 Archived: The Retirement Deficit

Nov 27 Archived: Thanksgiving in the Words of Abraham Lincoln

Nov 21 Archived: CEOs Against Grandmas

Nov 21 Archived: JFK’s Civil Rights Legacy- 50 Years of Myth and Fact

Nov 21 Archived: This Year, Have a Big-Poultry-Free Holiday Season

Nov 14 Archived: A Letter From the Publisher

Nov 14 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Nov 14 Archived: Our Industry and Our Jobs

Nov 14 Archived: Grand Bargain or Raw Deal?

Nov 07 Archived: November 5 Election – Unofficial Results Resultados Preliminares de las Elecciones del 5 de Noviembre

Nov 07 Archived: Ending Prayer at Public Meetings

Nov 07 Archived: Exile is Punishment — A Right to Counsel for Immigrant Detainees

October, 2013

Oct 31 Archived: Open Letter: Response to Recall Editorials

Oct 31 Archived: Understanding the ‘Wall of Separation’ Between Traditional Republicans and New Conservatives

Oct 31 Archived: Cities’ Finest: Armed, Brutal and Cowardly

Oct 24 Archived: EGP Ballot Recommendation for November 5, 2013

Oct 24 Archived: Prop 39 Funds Key to Improving Area Schools

Oct 24 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Oct 17 Archived: Congress Raises Debt Limit For The Time Being

Oct 17 Archived: When D.C. Doesn’t Work

Oct 17 Archived: The Shutdown and the Refuge of School Food

Oct 17 Archived: A Teacher’s Rant: Why Flipping Classrooms is ‘Flipping Ridiculous’

Oct 10 Archived: Higher Number of K-9 Bites to Minorities Raises Questions

Oct 10 Archived: Workforce Training Gap will Cost Los Angeles Latino’s $8 Billion Over 10 Years

Oct 10 Archived: The President of No

Oct 03 Archived: Whose Responsible for Budget Impasse?

Oct 03 Archived: From Our Readers

Oct 03 Archived: When Citizens Shocked Plutocrats

Oct 03 Archived: The Values Divide

September, 2013

Sep 26 Archived: Recalls Rarely Productive: Get Informed So You Don’t Feel the Need

Sep 26 Archived: The End to Domestic Violence Lies in Our Own Maternal Hands

Sep 26 Archived: PBS Insults Mexican Americans Again

Sep 19 Archived: Licenses For All Drivers a Sensible Decision

Sep 19 Archived: A New Bracero Program Will Hurt Farmworkers

Sep 19 Archived: In Defense of the American Dream

Sep 12 Archived: Hispanic Heritage Month: A Time to Recognize Perseverance and Determination

Sep 12 Archived: Obama’s Change on Syria A Good Step

Sep 12 Archived: A Trumped-Up War on Welfare

Sep 12 Archived: Starting at the Bottom to Give Kids a Better Chance

Sep 05 Archived: Good Insurance Key to Avoiding Premature Death

Sep 05 Archived: The Men’s Club

Sep 05 Archived: The Tipping Point

Sep 05 Archived: Low-Cost Drugs, Ill-Gotten Gains

August, 2013

Aug 29 Archived: Brown’s Prison Proposal: A Good Temporary Solution

Aug 29 Archived: What You Need to Know About Congress Right Now

Aug 29 Archived: Boomer Beware When Caring for Dying Parent

Aug 22 Archived: Time to Treat Aggressive Drivers to Aggressive Enforcement

Aug 22 Archived: Obama’s Tax Plan a Bad Bargain for Small Business

Aug 22 Archived: Immigration —What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Aug 15 Archived: Poll: Blacks, Latinos Worry Over Long-Term Care Crisis

Aug 15 Archived: Chance to Start Listening Locally

Aug 15 Archived: Medicaid Changes Mean More Resources for Children with Asthma in Los Angeles

Aug 08 Archived: Councilman Cedillo: It’s Time to Work On Cleaning Up the Streets

Aug 08 Archived: Blowing the Whistle on Philanthropy

Aug 08 Archived: Intentional Dementia

Aug 01 Archived: Seniors Beware: Scammers Have You In Their Sight

Aug 01 Archived: Beefing Up Food Safety

Aug 01 Archived: How Solitary Confinement in Pelican Bay Almost Drove Me Mad

July, 2013

Jul 25 Archived: When Racial Profiling Cuts Both Ways

Jul 25 Archived: Size Matters

Jul 25 Archived: Chicano Opposition to Immigration Reform

Jul 18 Archived: All Parents Should ‘Have the Talk’

Jul 18 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Jul 18 Archived: The Excitement of a Summer Job

Jul 18 Archived: What’s Driving America’s Flagging Vital Signs?

Jul 11 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Jul 11 Archived: Creating Clean and Pleasant Neighborhoods

Jul 11 Archived: ‘The Breaking Point’ – Sacrificing All for the Sake of Education

Jul 11 Archived: The Brutality of “Border Security”

Jul 04 Archived: ‘Oh, Say Does That Star-Spangled Banner Yet Wave’

Jul 04 Archived: Transparency You Can’t Believe In – Four Years Later

Jul 04 Archived: Grave New World

Jul 04 Archived: Padding the Bottom Line by Gouging the Customer

June, 2013

Jun 27 Archived: Republicans Out Negotiate Democrats on Immigration

Jun 27 Archived: Boehner’s House and Immigration Reform

Jun 27 Archived: Sealing Youth Offender Records Brings ‘Chance at a New Life’

Jun 20 Archived: Snooping Makes an Easy Road to Riches

Jun 20 Archived: Brown Backs Law to Make Public Record Access Optional

Jun 20 Archived: Our Star-Spangled Banner Waves for All of Us

Jun 13 Archived: A Child Dies But No Laws Are Likely To Be Changed

Jun 13 Archived: From Our Readers

Jun 13 Archived: Government Should Expand The Food Stamp Program, Not Shrink It

Jun 06 Archived: U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Another Blow Against Privacy

Jun 06 Archived: America Must Keep A Strong Military

Jun 06 Archived: Renewable Energy Standards: Building Blocks for Our Nation’s Future

Jun 06 Archived: Neglecting Mother Nature

May, 2013

May 30 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

May 30 Archived: Exide’s Not So Temporary Permit Warrants An Investigation

May 30 Archived: AB 880 Will Hurt California Businesses

May 30 Archived: Open Letter to CA Attorney General on Two-Year Anniversary of Mortgage Fraud Strike Force

May 23 Archived: May 21 Election – Unofficial Results/Resultados Preliminares de las Elecciones del 21 de Mayo

May 23 Archived: Our Shelters from the Storm

May 23 Archived: The New Crime of Eating While Homeless

May 16 Archived: Ballot Recommendations, City of Los Angeles

May 16 Archived: The Parched Truth About American Jobs

May 16 Archived: Immigration Follies

May 09 Archived: David Vela for L.A. Community College District

May 09 Archived: How We Pay for CEO ‘Performance’

May 09 Archived: Our Biggest Terrorist Threat

May 09 Archived: Tax Fairness: We Need A ‘Plan B’

May 02 Archived: Legislators Should Pass The ‘Natural Gas Act’

May 02 Archived: Embracing Change and Progress at Wyvernwood

May 02 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

May 02 Archived: Our Biggest Terrorist Threat

April, 2013

Apr 25 Archived: Senators’ Panic on Immigration Over Boston Bombings Makes No Sense

Apr 25 Archived: The Strawberries of Wrath

Apr 25 Archived: Making Poverty a Crime

Apr 25 Archived: Small Business Opposes Multinational Corporations’ Tax Avoidance

Apr 18 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Apr 18 Archived: It’s Time for Immigration Reform

Apr 18 Archived: Immigration Reform is Key to a New Economy

Apr 18 Archived: Obama’s Social Security, Medicare Cuts—No Grand Bargain for Latinos

Apr 11 Archived: Garcetti for Mayor of All of Los Angeles

Apr 11 Archived: I’m Already Against the Next War and You Should Be Too

Apr 11 Archived: The Young Grow Old

Apr 11 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Apr 04 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Apr 04 Archived: Care Must Be Taken Not to Add to Tension Between Motorists and Cyclists

Apr 04 Archived: How the News Media Betrayed Us on Iraq

Apr 04 Archived: KidSave: Sharing Love, Sharing Hope

March, 2013

Mar 28 Archived: Californians on Immigration Reform

Mar 28 Archived: Prisons Can’t Stop Rape Culture, Grassroots Intervention Can

Mar 21 Archived: Assemblyman Wants You to Work Harder to Get Information

Mar 21 Archived: The Messiah Will Come From the South

Mar 21 Archived: Gideon’s Promise Not Extended to Nation’s Immigrants

Mar 14 Archived: Supervisors Did the Right Thing by Backing Away from Clean Water Fee

Mar 14 Archived: MOCA Trustees: Beware of Vanishing Museum Merger Promises

Mar 14 Archived: Stalling the Incomplete Recovery

Mar 14 Archived: Drawing the Line on Big Beer

Mar 07 Archived: March 5 Election – Unofficial Results/Resultados Preliminares de las Elecciones del 5 de Marzo

Mar 07 Archived: LA’s 16% Election, A New Low for Angelenos

Mar 07 Archived: Weather Satellites: A Critical Piece of Our Nation’s Infrastructure

February, 2013

Feb 28 Archived: Health Care for All? Not Really

Feb 28 Archived: Why Use a Bludgeon When a Calculator Will Do?

Feb 28 Archived: Congress, Not Illegal Immigrants, to Blame For Immigration Mess

Feb 28 Archived: EGP Open Call for Community Contributors

Feb 21 Archived: March 5, 2013 Ballot Recommendations

Feb 21 Archived: Why the PLAS Experiment Must End at Roosevelt High School

Feb 21 Archived: AIDS Patients Need Access to Medicare

Feb 21 Archived: From Our Readers

Feb 14 Archived: March 5, 2013 Ballot Recommendations

Feb 14 Archived: Continuing the American Dream With Immigration Reform

Feb 14 Archived: Top Secret Immigration Reform Talks

Feb 07 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Feb 07 Archived: Away With That Ugly Old Bridge

Feb 07 Archived: The. Very. Best. Valentine. Ever.

Feb 07 Archived: Unequal Contracts, Unequal Power

January, 2013

Jan 31 Archived: Immigration Reforms Makes Sense

Jan 31 Archived: The Time Is Now: Ethnic Media Call for Immigration Reform in 2013

Jan 31 Archived: What’s Wrong With Immigration Reform, Rubio Style

Jan 31 Archived: California’s Economic Challenges Are Hurting Latinos and Latino Owned Businesses

Jan 24 Archived: Something to Look At: Using Eminent Domain to Seize Home Mortgages

Jan 24 Archived: For Obama, More Prose than Poetry in Second Inaugural

Jan 24 Archived: Marco Rubio’s Magic and John Boehner’s Power Equals Hispanic Votes

Jan 17 Archived: DMV Study Is More Proof the All Drivers Should Be Licensed

Jan 17 Archived: Of Cowardice and Connecticut

Jan 17 Archived: Filling Solis’s Shoes Won’t Be Easy

Jan 17 Archived: We Don’t Need a Secretary of Militarism

Jan 10 Archived: We May Look Different, But We Are Still Your Community Newspaper

Jan 10 Archived: 2013 Public Meeting Schedule: Cities, County and Neighborhood Councils/Calendario de Reuniones Públicas en 2013: Ciudades, Condado y Concejo Vecinales

Jan 03 Archived: Sometimes It’s the Small Changes That Make the Biggest Difference

Jan 03 Archived: The Dropped Ball

Jan 03 Archived: Maybe the Mayans Were Right

December, 2012

Dec 20 Archived: The Damper Hanging Over Christmas This Year

Dec 20 Archived: Sandy Hook School Massacre Presents Fresh Challenge to President Obama

Dec 20 Archived: The Moral Case for Preserving the Safety Net

Dec 13 Archived: Social Security Is the Payout for Years of Investment

Dec 13 Archived: Our Health Care System is Still Sick

Dec 13 Archived: The Post Office: Five Years of Fixing – Triple the Losses.

Dec 06 Archived: Problem of Illegal Boardinghouses Needs Immediate Action

Dec 06 Archived: Dodging the Fiscal Swindle

Dec 06 Archived: Under Capitalism, Welfare State’s Main Function is Corporate Welfare

November, 2012

Nov 29 Archived: The Money Changers Are At It Again

Nov 29 Archived: Awareness Gap Means Only 25 Percent of Americans with HIV are Receiving Effective Treatment

Nov 29 Archived: Mexico’s Great Leap Forward

Nov 21 Archived: Despite All Our Hardships, We Should Still Give Thanks

Nov 21 Archived: Black Friday is Big, but Small Business Saturday Can Make a Big Difference

Nov 21 Archived: Why Arizona Is a Red State Among a Sea of Blue States?

Nov 15 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Nov 15 Archived: Another Bad Idea: LA Wants to Raise the Sales Tax

Nov 15 Archived: Affordable Care Act Not So Affordable

Nov 15 Archived: Without Unity, We’ll Tumble Over Fiscal Cliff

Nov 08 Archived: November 6 General Election – Unofficial Results State and L.A. County

Nov 08 Archived: Who Will Reach Out to Vets After Veterans Day?

Nov 08 Archived: Social Security: It Ain’t Broke

Nov 08 Archived: We Owe Our Veterans Compassion and Gratitude Co

Nov 01 Archived: Ballot Recommendations – Tuesday, Nov. 6 Election

Nov 01 Archived: Myths and Millionaires

October, 2012

Oct 25 Archived: Ballot Recommendations – Tuesday, Nov. 6 Election

Oct 25 Archived: Editorial Cartoon

Oct 25 Archived: What About the Homeless? …The Homeless Then and Now—Obama and Reagan

Oct 18 Archived: Ballot Recommendations – Tuesday, Nov. 6 Election

Oct 18 Archived: Big Food Behemoths Embarrass their Organic Offshoots

Oct 18 Archived: Obama, Romney, and the Latino Vote

Oct 11 Archived: Cesar Chavez for All People

Oct 11 Archived: President Moves to Preserve Chávez Legacy with New National Monument

Oct 11 Archived: EGP Nov. 2012 Ballot Recommendation

Oct 04 Archived: Proposition 38 Is Not the Right Answer for Education: Vote No

Oct 04 Archived: Avoid (Or Evade) the Law: Just Label ‘Em Independent Contractors

Oct 04 Archived: Who Spends Wisest?

September, 2012

Sep 27 Archived: Romney, Taxes, and Dependence on Government

Sep 13 Archived: EDITORIAL: Americans Stand Together In a Crisis: Seems Romney Missed that Lesson

Sep 13 Archived: Egypt and Libya: Shades of 1979-80

Sep 13 Archived: For Children, Stigma of Fat Worse Than Ever

Sep 13 Archived: Tilting at Windmills at L.A. City Hall

Sep 06 Archived: EDITORIAL: Governor Brown: Sign the Driver’s License Bill

Sep 06 Archived: Why Latinos Need to Register and Vote

Sep 06 Archived: Sorry, You Can’t Get There From Here

Sep 06 Archived: From Our Readers

August, 2012

Aug 30 Archived: Labor Day 2012 –Time to Reinvest In Our Human Capital

Aug 30 Archived: A Bold New Call for a ‘Maximum Wage’

Aug 30 Archived: Freeway Expansion a Misguided Approach to Improving Air Quality

Aug 30 Archived: Race to the Bottom Cartoon

Aug 16 Archived: Getting the Mural Ordinance Right

Aug 16 Archived: Drone on the Range

Aug 16 Archived: Occupy Wall Street Paved Way

Aug 09 Archived: EDITORIAL: 710 Extension Nightmare Reaches Highland Park

Aug 09 Archived: Shortcut to Nowhere

Aug 09 Archived: It’s Time to End the Apple and GE Offshore Tax Loopholes

Aug 02 Archived: Reducing Freddie and Fannie Loans Underwater Makes Sense

Aug 02 Archived: Marching Toward Greater Inequality

Aug 02 Archived: The Environmentalists’ Misguided Plan to Repeal and Replace’ Fossil Fuels

July, 2012

Jul 26 Archived: Green Scissors for Congress

Jul 26 Archived: My Broken Heart

Jul 26 Archived: Obama, Romney Rhetoric Risks Trade War

Jul 19 Archived: Tattered, Forgotten Signs: A Quality of Life Issue

Jul 19 Archived: The Face of ‘Reasonable Suspicion’ – Arizona’s Freedom Summer Continues

Jul 19 Archived: Condemning Olympic Apparel Made in China: Another Tempest in a Teapot Brewed by Congress

Jul 12 Archived: A Victory For All Americans — And Especially for Latinos

Jul 12 Archived: Our Troops as Cannon Fodder

Jul 05 Archived: Finally: Mortgage Protection for Homeowners

Jul 05 Archived: Conservative Politics Will Again Trump Law in Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling

Jul 05 Archived: Corporations Score Another Supreme Court Victory

June, 2012

Jun 28 Archived: Budget Cuts Threaten Health Care Access to California’s Kids

Jun 28 Archived: One Decision’s Impact on My Community

Jun 21 Archived: New Immigration Policy Is Sure to Come With Some Hurdles

Jun 21 Archived: ‘Dreamers’ Victory Is A Lesson for Us All

Jun 21 Archived: Obama Adds More Dysfunction to Broken Immigration System

Jun 14 Archived: The Wisconsin Union Fight Reconsidered

Jun 14 Archived: Our Press Freedom Is Under Fire

Jun 07 Archived: The Minimum Wage: 100 Years Later

Jun 07 Archived: Mother Nature Doesn’t Quit

May, 2012

May 31 Archived: Are You Planning to Vote on Tuesday?

May 31 Archived: June 5 Ballot Recommendation Recap

May 31 Archived: Building Bridges Not Walls

May 31 Archived: The Changing Face of America

May 31 Archived: For the Record

May 24 Archived: EGP Ballot Recommendations – Tuesday, June 5 2012 Election

May 24 Archived: Feeding Obesity

May 17 Archived: EGP Ballot Recommendations – Tuesday, June 5 2012 Election

May 17 Archived: No Country for Rich Men

May 17 Archived: Thanking Preschool Teachers Who Make A Difference

May 10 Archived: A Mother’s Day Message

May 10 Archived: E-Verify Errors Prevent People from Working

May 10 Archived: Vegan Confessions

May 03 Archived: EDITORIAL: May Day: A Good Lead Up to Cinco de Mayo

May 03 Archived: The Cinco De Mayo Paradigm

May 03 Archived: From Our Readers: First Street Murals

April, 2012

Apr 26 Archived: 20 Years Later, Has Anything Really Changed?

Apr 26 Archived: The Pentagon Budget

Apr 26 Archived: Buffett Rule Still Makes Main Street Sense

Apr 19 Archived: EDITORIAL: LAUSD and UCs, Two Shortsighted Approaches on Education

Apr 19 Archived: High-Speed Collusion

Apr 19 Archived: A Better Approach to School Discipline

Apr 12 Archived: EDITORIAL: A Bad Accident Waiting to Happen

Apr 12 Archived: Chairman of the Con Man Committee

Apr 12 Archived: Fair Pay Still Elusive for Working Mothers

Apr 12 Archived: Another Barrier to Health Care for Latinos

Apr 05 Archived: EDITORIAL: Marijuana Industry Is Not Going Away, So It Should be Taxed

Apr 05 Archived: Colossal Disaster for Minorities if Supreme Court Scraps Health Law

Apr 05 Archived: We Deserve the Same Level of Care That We Are Providing

Apr 05 Archived: Congress Opts to Keep Poisoning Children

March, 2012

Mar 29 Archived: Open Letter to Ben Cardenas and the Unincorporated East Los Angeles Community

Mar 29 Archived: Re: Ben Cardenas’ Open Letter to East L.A. Residents (March 22, 2012)

Mar 29 Archived: From Our Readers

Mar 22 Archived: EDITORIAL: LAFD Needs More Transparency, Not More Cover Ups

Mar 22 Archived: Open Letter to East L.A. Residents

Mar 22 Archived: Transparency, the Cure for Scandal

Mar 15 Archived: CARTOON: Five Bucks A Gallon

Mar 15 Archived: Obama’s Energy Policy Schizophrenia

Mar 15 Archived: Pumping Gas Prices for All They’re Worth

Mar 08 Archived: Is Bias at the Root of Harsher Treatment of Minority Students?

Mar 08 Archived: Why Wouldn’t WRD Tell You the Truth

Mar 08 Archived: Regulations are Essential Protections for Small Businesses

Mar 01 Archived: Time to Approve Drivers Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants

Mar 01 Archived: Why the WRD Is Taking Legal Action

Mar 01 Archived: Soaking the Customer

February, 2012

Feb 23 Archived: EDITORIAL: Supreme Court to Revisit Race Preference in College Admissions

Feb 23 Archived: Remembering Ruben Salazar’s Life, Not Just His Death

Feb 23 Archived: Secretary of the Navy: Insensitive or Just Dumb?

Feb 16 Archived: EDITORIAL: Mortgage Settlement With Lenders Nothing to Be Proud Of

Feb 16 Archived: Where is the Mexican Atticus Finch?

Feb 16 Archived: Risky Business

Feb 16 Archived: Letter To The Editor

Feb 09 Archived: EDITORIAL: Miramonte School Scandal Demands Greater Transparency at LAUSD

Feb 09 Archived: An Investment Worthy of Business Community Action

Feb 09 Archived: Playing with Fire

Feb 02 Archived: Waiver for NCLB the Right Choice for California

Feb 02 Archived: Open Letter: East LA Residents Deserve Full Time Government Accountability

Feb 02 Archived: Buying Our Future

January, 2012

Jan 27 Archived: Average Americans Could Create More Jobs If They Had More to Spend

Jan 26 Archived: Obama’s State of the Union: Eleven Sentences too Short

Jan 26 Archived: What’s Wrong With Mexico’s 2012 Presidential Election?

Jan 26 Archived: Congress and the Constitution’s 225th Anniversary

Jan 19 Archived: EDITORIAL: Governor’s State of The State Inspires, But What We Need Now Are More Details

Jan 19 Archived: Padilla Bill on Redevelopment Agencies Should Be Top L.A. Priority

Jan 19 Archived: A Watchbird Is Watching You

Jan 12 Archived: EDITORIAL: Unintended Consequences of Killing Redevelopment Agencies

Jan 12 Archived: Animal-Rights Activists Like Me Aren’t Terrorists

Jan 12 Archived: Axing Access to Community College Students

Jan 05 Archived: EDITORIAL: Proposed Community College Changes Make Sense

Jan 05 Archived: CARTOON: Voter Rights

Jan 05 Archived: Disenfranchising Voters is Un-American

December, 2011

Dec 22 Archived: Too Many American Children Now Living in Poverty

Dec 22 Archived: The Incredible Shrinking State Dollars for K-12 Schools

Dec 22 Archived: Regulating What’s in Your Turkey Today Will Protect Your Health Tomorrow

Dec 16 Archived: EDITORIAL: Instead of Serving the Poor, They Served Themselves

Dec 16 Archived: Main Street Small Businesses Stand with Occupy Wall Street

Dec 16 Archived: We’re Not Even Paving a Road to Nowhere

Dec 16 Archived: Big Business Tax Holidays Are Bad for Small Business, Bad for America

Dec 08 Archived: Time To Pass the Unemployment Extension Bill Is Now

Dec 08 Archived: Software Piracy Kills California Jobs

Dec 02 Archived: EDITORIAL: Black Friday Causes More Pandemonium Than Occupy Eviction

Dec 02 Archived: Creating an AIDS-Free Generation

Dec 02 Archived: Do Political Leaders Have the Will to Get Us to an “AIDS-Free Generation”

November, 2011

Nov 24 Archived: EDITORIAL: Let Thanks ‘Occupy’ Our Celebrations Today

Nov 24 Archived: A Time for Courage and Giving Thanks

Nov 24 Archived: Next Generation Needs Our Help Avoiding Drug Abuse

Nov 24 Archived: November 22, 2011 Vernon Election Results

Nov 24 Archived: Border War Rumors

Nov 17 Archived: CARTOON: Super Committee

Nov 17 Archived: EDITORIAL: Legislators Must Stop Ignoring Maywood’s Water Issues

Nov 17 Archived: The Class War is So Over

Nov 17 Archived: What Immigration Problem?

Nov 10 Archived: EDITORIAL: Time to Open Dependency Court Proceedings to the Public

Nov 10 Archived: Trickle Down Tax Cuts: A Broken Record

Nov 03 Archived: Ballot Recommendations for Tuesday, Nov. 8 2011 Consolidate Municipal Election

Nov 03 Archived: The Great Local News Heist

October, 2011

Oct 27 Archived: EDITORIAL: Time to Step up and Help Our Neighbors

Oct 27 Archived: EDITORIAL: City of Los Angeles Says to ‘Fix Your Own Sidewalks’

Oct 27 Archived: Occupying Wall Street Together

Oct 27 Archived: Measuring Progress

Oct 20 Archived: The GOP Loves the Federal Spending it Hates

Oct 20 Archived: Wall Street Couldn’t Have Done It Alone

Oct 20 Archived: New Cal Law Could be Game-Changer on Elder Poverty

Oct 13 Archived: EDITORIAL: Montebello Needs to Stop Playing the Blame Game

Oct 13 Archived: Hire Teenagers: A Solution to Joblessness in America

Oct 13 Archived: The Environment Could Use Some Rich Friends

Oct 06 Archived: EDITORIAL: Occupy LA: Power To The 90 Percent

Oct 06 Archived: Positive School Environments, Not Metal Detectors, Are the Key to Student Success

Oct 06 Archived: Exposing Official’s Sexual Harassment

September, 2011

Sep 29 Archived: If You Live In L.A., Please Call 311

Sep 29 Archived: President and Congress Courting Votes with Untruths?

Sep 29 Archived: America’s Government Contracting Bonanza Bilks Taxpayers

Sep 29 Archived: Calderon’s Fantasy Tour of Mexico Goes Unquestioned

Sep 22 Archived: The Math Behind ‘Class Warfare’–A Middle Class Under Attack

Sep 22 Archived: EDITORIAL: How the West Was Really Won

Sep 22 Archived: It’s Time to Study Social Security’s Origins

Sep 22 Archived: For the Record / Quede en Constancia

Sep 15 Archived: EDITORIAL: The Quest for Freedom Takes Great Bravery

Sep 15 Archived: Dos victorias y la esperanza

Sep 15 Archived: History Repeats, Again

Sep 08 Archived: 9/11 is No Excuse for Bashing Muslims

Sep 08 Archived: From Our Readers: Say Yes to the City of East Los Angeles

Sep 08 Archived: CEOs Rewarded for Corporate Tax Dodging

August, 2011

Aug 25 Archived: EDITORIAL: Local Schools, Lets All Pitch In

Aug 25 Archived: Proud to Invest in America

Aug 25 Archived: Richard Chavez – One Hero Among Many

Aug 25 Archived: Thrifty, Green Homeowners May Get a Boost

Aug 18 Archived: CARTOON: Deporting Mom and Dad

Aug 18 Archived: EDITORIAL: Molina’s Redistricting Plan Shows Potential to Fend Off Lawsuits

Aug 18 Archived: Diplomas vs. Deportation

Aug 18 Archived: Real-Time, Stop-Sale Electronic Technology Is The Right Way To Combat Meth Abuse In California

Aug 11 Archived: EDITORIAL: The Poor Will Get Poorer

Aug 11 Archived: Shredding the Safety Net

Aug 11 Archived: Immigration Chaos

Aug 11 Archived: From Our Readers: No to ‘City of East Los Angeles’

Aug 04 Archived: Republican Rank and File Has Lost Its Voice

Aug 04 Archived: They Are Not Nice People

Aug 04 Archived: Agent Orange and Vietnam: Ending A Fifty Year Legacy

July, 2011

Jul 28 Archived: CARTOON: Corporate Supreme Court

Jul 28 Archived: EDITORIAL: Some Local Post Offices to Close

Jul 28 Archived: Making the Case That Medicaid Works

Jul 28 Archived: Getting Main Street to Call the Shots

Jul 14 Archived: EDITORIAL: There They Go Again: Playing Chicken

Jul 14 Archived: Enough Free Trade Nonsense

Jul 14 Archived: Should California Deny Farm Workers Their Basic Rights?

Jul 14 Archived: Bring Our Troops Home

Jul 07 Archived: CARTOON: Alabama Immigration

Jul 07 Archived: The Scandals Continue: Is It Any Wonder the Public Distrusts Government?

Jul 07 Archived: Dismantle Vernon, But Do It Right

Jul 07 Archived: What Really Counts: The Debt, Women, and Our Future

June, 2011

Jun 30 Archived: Celebrating Freedom on the Fourth of July

Jun 30 Archived: My Favorite Fourth of July Speech

Jun 30 Archived: AB 52 Would Give Insurance Commissioner Power to Reject Excessive Health Insurance Rate Hikes

Jun 30 Archived: First E-Verify, Then a National ID Card

Jun 23 Archived: State Legislators Should Learn From Chiang’s Decision to Not Pay Them

Jun 23 Archived: Our Prison System is Bankrupting Us

Jun 23 Archived: Avoiding Taxes the Way Big Corporations Do It

Jun 23 Archived: For the Record

Jun 16 Archived: EDITORIAL: Redistricting Maps Unleash Complaints

Jun 16 Archived: New CA Redistricting Maps: Worst Case Scenario for Latinos?

Jun 16 Archived: For the Record

Jun 09 Archived: Deadline to Empty Prisons Should Light Fire Under Governor

Jun 09 Archived: CARTOON: SEC Revolving Door

Jun 09 Archived: The SEC’s Revolving Door

Jun 09 Archived: America’s Nuclear Spent-Fuel Time Bombs

Jun 02 Archived: Cellphone Company Merger: Mobile Mugging

Jun 02 Archived: SCOTUS: Empty California Prisons!

Jun 02 Archived: College Dream Eludes Immigrant Valedictorian

May, 2011

May 26 Archived: EDITORIAL: Twenty Percent Less Students Should Mean 20 Percent Fewer Desks

May 26 Archived: Memorial Day 2011

May 26 Archived: Some Good News, At Last

May 26 Archived: Fukushima, USA

May 19 Archived: CARTOON: We’re Open For Business

May 19 Archived: EDITORIAL: Rise In Tax Revenues May Blindside Governor

May 19 Archived: Mitt Romney’s Mexican Roots

May 19 Archived: Critics Are Wrong: The Secure Communities Program Works

May 12 Archived: Luis Sanchez Still Has Our ‘Vote’ On May 17

May 12 Archived: Obama at the Border: Will Enforcement Strategy Backfire with Latino Voters?

May 12 Archived: Making an Exception for Osama bin Laden

May 12 Archived: From Our Readers

May 05 Archived: Battle at Puebla and Killing of Bin Laden Are Lessons In Perseverance

May 05 Archived: Cinco de Mayo – A Great Battle, A Great Victory

May 05 Archived: Bin Laden’s Death and the Meaning of American Patriotism

May 05 Archived: For the Record

April, 2011

Apr 28 Archived: CARTOON: Retired Dictators

Apr 28 Archived: EDITORIAL: Bill To Open Dependency Court Hearings Killed: That’s a Shame

Apr 28 Archived: America Needs a Single Payer Health Care System

Apr 28 Archived: Happy Arbor Week!

Apr 21 Archived: Finally, Obama Leads on the Deficit

Apr 21 Archived: Thank You Ray Cortines For Your Leadership

Apr 21 Archived: Irreparable Human Deficit Looms in Wake of Budget-Cutting Frenzy

Apr 14 Archived: CARTOON: Diagnosing Military Industrial Complex

Apr 14 Archived: EDITORIAL: Stop Placing All the Blame On Social Security and Medicare

Apr 14 Archived: Mickey Mouse Wage Hike

Apr 14 Archived: From Our Readers

Apr 07 Archived: It’s Time the GOP Calls On Wealthy Corporations to Share the Burden

Apr 07 Archived: Fair Taxation Requires More Brackets at the Top

Apr 07 Archived: Why is the California Tax Payer Fighting the Battle Alone?

Apr 07 Archived: From Our Readers

March, 2011

Mar 31 Archived: EDITORIAL: Homeowners Deserve More From Republicans

Mar 31 Archived: Budget Cuts and Corporate Tax Cheats

Mar 31 Archived: Latino Students CAN Afford College

Mar 24 Archived: CARTOON: Nuclear War and Peace

Mar 24 Archived: EDITORIAL: Lack of Oversight Makes Gov Credit Cards Rife for Abuse

Mar 24 Archived: State’s Lifeline Program Should Catch Up to Technology

Mar 24 Archived: Japan’s Chaos Is a Wake-up Call

Mar 17 Archived: CARTOON: Libya

Mar 17 Archived: The Lessons To Be Learned From Japan’s Tragedy

Mar 17 Archived: Congress Needs To Build A Culture of Fairness

Mar 17 Archived: From Our Readers

Mar 10 Archived: Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers

Mar 10 Archived: Moving Past the Jobless Recovery

Mar 03 Archived: EGP’s Ballot Recommendations for the Cities of Los Angeles, Commerce and Monterey Park

Mar 03 Archived: Luis Sanchez for LAUSD District 5

Mar 03 Archived: Huizar for LA City Council

February, 2011

Feb 24 Archived: Eastern Group Publications Ballot Recommendations, March 8, 2011 Municipal Election

Feb 17 Archived: EDITORIAL: City of Los Angeles-Charter Amendment G

Feb 17 Archived: Taxes Worth Fighting For

Feb 17 Archived: Proposed Republican Spending Cuts are Reckless and Dangerous

Feb 17 Archived: Egypt: A Warning for U.S. Democracy

Feb 10 Archived: Put a Human Face on Spending Priorities

Feb 10 Archived: Insulting ‘Info-Babes’

Feb 03 Archived: Are CRA and City Plans Correct? It’s Time You Find Out

Feb 03 Archived: Ripping off Newspaper Websites Shortchanges Democracy

Feb 03 Archived: Squeezing Ordinary Californians and New Yorkers

January, 2011

Jan 27 Archived: EDITORIAL: Don’t Forsake the Present In Hope of a Better Tomorrow

Jan 27 Archived: The State of the Union Speech Is Over—Now the Real Fight Begins

Jan 27 Archived: We Need a Plan to ‘Win the Future’

Jan 20 Archived: EDITORIAL: Gardena High Shooting Was No Accident

Jan 20 Archived: California’s Health: Parents Can Once Again Buy Insurance for Kids Only

Jan 20 Archived: Ruled by Rifles

Jan 13 Archived: EDITORIAL: $20 Million Savings Could Add Up

Jan 13 Archived: American Comic Book in Arizona

Jan 13 Archived: A Lousy New Year for Workers

Jan 06 Archived: CARTOON: Heave-Ho

Jan 06 Archived: EDITORIAL: So Gov. Brown May Take on Prop. 13

Jan 06 Archived: Dual Priorities for California: Jobs and a Balanced Budget

Jan 06 Archived: Move Your Money

December, 2010

Dec 23 Archived: CARTOON: Clean Corn

Dec 23 Archived: EDITORIAL: Our Wish for You This Merry Season

Dec 23 Archived: Why Can’t Our Politicians Get into the Holiday Spirit?

Dec 23 Archived: Color-Coded Terrorism Alerts Fade to Black

Dec 16 Archived: EDITORIAL: Education’s Big Take of Budget Revenues Means Big Take of Budget Cuts

Dec 16 Archived: Invertebrate President

Dec 16 Archived: From Our Readers: What Does 12 Percent Gets Us?

Dec 09 Archived: EDITORIAL: Are Vernon Jobs and Businesses at Risk?

Dec 09 Archived: A $700 Billion Dilemma

Dec 09 Archived: Solving the State Deficit Is An Information Issue

Dec 02 Archived: The Fairness Factor in L.A. City Pension Reform

Dec 02 Archived: From Our Readers

Dec 02 Archived: Buses Are the Answer

Dec 02 Archived: Trojan Malpractice

November, 2010

Nov 25 Archived: CARTOON: Food Pyramid Scheme

Nov 25 Archived: Thanksgiving: A Time to Count Our Blessings

Nov 25 Archived: Open Letter: Manganese Still a Problem in East Los Angeles Water

Nov 25 Archived: Patriotic Schlunk

Nov 18 Archived: Recession? What Recession?

Nov 18 Archived: Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles for Good

Nov 18 Archived: Rough and Tumble Times

Nov 11 Archived: EDITORIAL: County Needs to Plan for Returning Vets

Nov 11 Archived: Does the US Chamber of Commerce Really Represent Small Businesses?

Nov 11 Archived: GOP Magic Act

Nov 04 Archived:

Nov 04 Archived: Failure to Compromise may Stymie the House

Nov 04 Archived: Legislature Needs to Help Foreclosure Problem

Nov 04 Archived: Nov. 2, 2010 General Election Semi-Official Results

Nov 04 Archived: Now Begins the Real GOP War on Obama

Nov 04 Archived: Onward Hispanic Republicans

October, 2010

Oct 28 Archived: Eastern Group Publications Ballot Recommendations

Oct 21 Archived: Eastern Group Publications Ballot Recommendations, November 2, 2010 General Election

Oct 14 Archived: Eastern Group Publications Ballot Recommendations

Oct 14 Archived: Basic City Services Versus Pensions – L.A. Has A Choice To Make

Oct 14 Archived: The Faces of Government

Oct 07 Archived: EDITORIAl: LAUSD’s Decision To Settle Lawsuit Is Good for Students

Oct 07 Archived: ‘Waiting for Superman,’ the Debate All Teachers Should Welcome

Oct 07 Archived: A Radical Agenda In Troubled Times

September, 2010

Sep 30 Archived: EDITORIAL: So, Who Is Subsidizing Whom?

Sep 30 Archived: Superheroes in East L.A.? The Tales We Make

Sep 30 Archived: Sorry, You’re Under Surveillance

Sep 23 Archived: EDITORIAL: What Now for Bell? Beware of New ‘Kingmakers’ Making Promises

Sep 23 Archived: Latino Catholics Must Make Children’s Safety a Priority

Sep 23 Archived: Minority Communities Overexposed to Toxins

Sep 23 Archived: We Can and Must do More to Protect Children Working in Agriculture in the United States

Sep 16 Archived: EDITORIAL: School Reform Is Key to Independence

Sep 16 Archived: Mexico’s 200 Years as An Independent Country

Sep 16 Archived: Elders’ Safety Net Could Fray After November 2

Sep 09 Archived: EDITORIAL: SB933 Protects Consumers, Governor Should Now Sign

Sep 09 Archived: Planet CEO vs. Planet Worker

Sep 09 Archived: From Our Readers

Sep 02 Archived: This Labor Day, Don’t Forget the Long-Term Unemployed

Sep 02 Archived: With the Kids Back in School, Stay Alert

Sep 02 Archived: Killing Jobs is Bad for Business

Sep 02 Archived: Report Cards for Teachers? New Law Gives CA Students a Voice

August, 2010

Aug 26 Archived: EDITORIAL: They Didn’t Balk When It Came to Taking Money from US’s Diverse Taxpayers

Aug 26 Archived: August 29, 1970: A Day in History To Be Remembered

Aug 26 Archived: Arizona Gets it Dose of ‘Death by Media’

Aug 19 Archived: CARTOON: Supply and Demand

Aug 19 Archived: An East LA Education: What Happened to Those Wonder Years?

Aug 19 Archived: No Smoking Gun in House Ethics Committee Report Against Waters

Aug 19 Archived: From Our Readers

Aug 12 Archived: EDITORIAL: Obama’s ‘HOPE’ Failing American Dream: GMAC One of Many Conspirators

Aug 12 Archived: CARTOON: Compassionate Conservatism

Aug 12 Archived: Homeowners Working With Servicers Often Blindsided by Foreclosures

Aug 12 Archived: Letter From Our Readers

Aug 05 Archived: Boeing Is Leaving LA County, Can You Feel the Chill?

Aug 05 Archived: Our Prisons Don’t Do Us Justice

Aug 05 Archived: Early Education Effective in Combating High School Dropout Epidemic

Aug 05 Archived: From Our Readers

July, 2010

Jul 29 Archived: EDITORIAL: Judge Stays Parts of Arizona Law, But Issue Looms On

Jul 29 Archived: President and Judge Thwart Democracy, Side With Illegals Vs. Americans

Jul 29 Archived: Let’s Get Sensible about Immigration

Jul 29 Archived: Protecting Sources Means Protecting the Public

Jul 22 Archived: EDITORIAL: Bell Should Be a Civics Lesson to Us All

Jul 22 Archived: “Economic Justice” as “Social Justice”

Jul 22 Archived: They Aren’t Coming

Jul 15 Archived: CARTOON: Shovel Ready

Jul 15 Archived: EDITORIAL: America’s Unemployed Need to Retaliate in November

Jul 15 Archived: Restoring Balance Between Wall Street and Main Street

Jul 15 Archived: Unemployed Become a Political Football

Jul 08 Archived: CARTOON: Afghanistan Exit Strategy

Jul 08 Archived: Global Warming is Real

Jul 08 Archived: Put Your Money on Climate Change

Jul 08 Archived: If You Want to Know What Congress Values, Watch the Supplemental Vote

Jul 07 Archived: Americans Must Come Together to Address the Problem of Illegal Immigration

Jul 01 Archived: CARTOON: BP Conduct

Jul 01 Archived: Independence Day Ignorance Contributes to Loss of Liberties

Jul 01 Archived: It’s Tough To Give Americans What They Want

Jul 01 Archived: Southeast Water Reliability Project Means Increased Fees

June, 2010

Jun 24 Archived: EDITORIAL: Maywood Disbands City Government: Other Cities Should Heed Their Lesson

Jun 24 Archived: Medicare Starts Filling ‘Donut Hole’ With $250 Checks

Jun 24 Archived: Get Serious About Small Business

Jun 17 Archived: State Budget Missed Again: What A Surprise

Jun 17 Archived: Southeast Water Reliability Project Means Regional Sustainability

Jun 17 Archived: I Fight, Therefore I Am

Jun 10 Archived: EDITORIAL: LAUSD Parcel Tax Failure Is No Reason to Change Two-Third Vote Requirement

Jun 10 Archived: From Where Doth This Hate Root?

Jun 10 Archived: From Our Readers

Jun 03 Archived: June 8, 2010 Ballot Recommendations/Recomendaciones para Votar

Jun 02 Archived: EDITORIAL: Memorial Day Is More Than Just the Start of Summer

Jun 02 Archived: EDITORIAL: June 8 Primary Election Endorsements

Jun 02 Archived: POINT/COUNTERPOINT: SB 933 – Putting Small Business Between the Rock and the Hard Place

Jun 02 Archived: POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Measure Would Protect Against Misleading Prices

Jun 02 Archived: Memorial Day: A Time To Remember Our Fallen Heroes

May, 2010

May 20 Archived: EGP’s June 8, 2010 Ballot Recommendations

May 20 Archived: Gov’t Loan Mod Program Leaves Some Homeowners Worse Off

May 13 Archived: EGP June 8, 2010 Statewide Primary Ballot Recommendations

May 13 Archived: May 15, 2010 is Armed Forces Day—Thank the Troops

May 13 Archived: What Would Palin Do?

May 06 Archived: CARTOON: Arizona

May 06 Archived: Arizona Immigration Law: Sowing Seeds of Tyranny

May 06 Archived: GM’s Give Back Gimmick … More Happy Talk on the Way to Its Next Bankruptcy

May 06 Archived: Corporate Murder

May 06 Archived: From Our Readers

April, 2010

Apr 29 Archived: CARTOON: Wall Street Backpockets

Apr 29 Archived: Editorial: Did Arizona Start the Reform Ball Rolling?

Apr 29 Archived: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

Apr 29 Archived: Greed in the Suites Gets a New Yardstick

Apr 22 Archived: CARTOON: Earth Day, Tenants

Apr 22 Archived: Editorial: Is Los Angeles Broke or Not?

Apr 22 Archived: A Free Market Appreciation for Earth Day

Apr 22 Archived: The Longevity of Oppression

Apr 15 Archived: CARTOON: U.S. Kids Bad At Math

Apr 15 Archived: Editorial: Los Angeles DWP Disagrees with Expert Panel

Apr 15 Archived: The Last (Sad) Laughs

Apr 15 Archived: Balanced Leadership Makes Companies and Countries Stronger

Apr 08 Archived: Cartoon: Obama and Obesity

Apr 08 Archived: It’s not Government’s Size, It’s the Stupidity

Apr 08 Archived: Post-Racial America

Apr 08 Archived: From Our Readers

Apr 01 Archived: Cartoon: Border

Apr 01 Archived: Business Owners Need a Strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Apr 01 Archived: Boeing’s Virtual Fence is a Real Boondoggle

Apr 01 Archived: Subsidized Employment Program Helps Meet Local Hiring Needs, Boosts Economy

March, 2010

Mar 25 Archived: Cartoon: Pro-Life

Mar 25 Archived: Editorial: Health Care Vote Provides Historic Step Forward: Time Now to Really Solve Foreclosure Crisis

Mar 25 Archived: Antidote for Anxious Times? Do Your Duty

Mar 25 Archived: Consumer Protection and Corporate Purses

Mar 18 Archived: Editorial: Carbon Tax Rate Hike For DWP a Bad Idea

Mar 18 Archived: Editorial: Eastside Sun Celebrates 65th Anniversary

Mar 18 Archived: If Eligible, Take Advantage of Tax Credits and Free Help

Mar 11 Archived: Nuking Taxpayers Cartoon

Mar 11 Archived: Stimulus 102: One Year and $800 Billion Later

Mar 11 Archived: Free Those Corporate Slaves

Mar 04 Archived: Participating in the Census is Like Voting for Yourself

February, 2010

Feb 25 Archived: Editorial: The Silly Game on Confirming Maldonado

Feb 25 Archived: State of Small Business

Feb 25 Archived: Prospects for Immigration Reform Legislation

Feb 18 Archived: California’s Water Crisis: Why Should You Care

Feb 18 Archived: A GOP Leader’s Economic Plan

Feb 18 Archived: Pilot Schools in East Los Angeles

Feb 11 Archived: Editorial: Victory At Any Cost In School Vote Sends the Wrong Message

Feb 11 Archived: Better Government Starts With You: You Have Until Feb 16 To Act

Feb 11 Archived: The Only Way to Get Money Out of Politics

Feb 11 Archived: All Sides Must Live Up To True Intent of Public School Choice

Feb 04 Archived: Editorial: Parents Should Share Blame for Student Failure

Feb 04 Archived: In Honor of Lilly, Take Action Now to Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act

Feb 04 Archived: The Earnings Report for Main Street

January, 2010

Jan 28 Archived: How The State Of California Budget Affects Los Angeles County Public Safety

Jan 28 Archived: Massachusetts: The Democrats Blew It

Jan 28 Archived: A Failed Strategy for East LA Cityhood

Jan 21 Archived: Editorial: For Safety’s Sake — Get Out of the Way

Jan 21 Archived: Martin Luther King and the Chicano Movement

Jan 21 Archived: Weathering the Recession through Community and Collaboration

Jan 14 Archived: Bulldozed in New London: The Latest on Kelo and Eminent Domain

Jan 14 Archived: Fly the Unfriendly Skies, if You Dare

Jan 14 Archived: CARTOON: Saudi Arabia

Jan 14 Archived: Re: Autry Response to Coalition Claim of Museum Closure published Jan. 7.

Jan 14 Archived: From Our Readers

Jan 07 Archived: EDITORIAL: Airport Body Scans: Another Slap at Our Freedoms

Jan 07 Archived: Ten New Year’s Resolutions for a Fiscally Responsible California

Jan 07 Archived: CARTOON: Airport Security

Jan 07 Archived: Healthy Eating: A Different Approach to National Health Reform

December, 2009

Dec 28 Archived: Editorial: Wishing You the Spirit of the Season

Dec 28 Archived: Generosity and Celebration Prevail Despite Hard Times

Dec 28 Archived: CARTOON: Welcome to Bethlehem

Dec 28 Archived: No Room in Our Inn for the Most Famous Poor Baby in History?

Dec 17 Archived: Editorial: Help! Text Speak Takes Over

Dec 17 Archived: Open Letter: Autry’s Closure of Southwest Museum Is the Latest Move to Kill Off L.A.’s First Museum

Dec 17 Archived: CARTOON: Bernanke

Dec 17 Archived: A Holiday Gift for the Children of California

Dec 10 Archived: We Can Make It Here

Dec 10 Archived: CARTOON: Failed Wars

Dec 10 Archived: Vote Before We Deploy

Dec 03 Archived: Dark Forces Conspire Against Healthcare Reform

Dec 03 Archived: Health-Care ‘Reform’: It’s All About Power

Dec 03 Archived: CARTOON: Diminishing Returns

Dec 03 Archived: Dying for Karzai

November, 2009

Nov 30 Archived: Our Thanksgiving Wishes

Nov 30 Archived: CARTOON: Health Insurance Coverage

Nov 30 Archived: Take Advantage of Part D – Before It’s Too Late

Nov 30 Archived: Mexico Surges Ahead of United States

Nov 19 Archived: Marijuana: Treat Like Every Other Controlled Medication, Or Tax It

Nov 19 Archived: The Health Care Women Need

Nov 19 Archived: With Employer Mandate, Feds Actually Mandate Job Losses

Nov 12 Archived: Editorial: Top Flight Care for Veterans Is In Our Best Interest

Nov 12 Archived: When Consumer Protection Doesn’t Protect Consumers

Nov 12 Archived: Policy Reforms Needed to Ensure the Humane Treatment of Immigrant Detainees

Nov 12 Archived: From Our Readers: Open Letter: Bell Gardens and Commerce School Making Progress

Nov 05 Archived: Editorial: Between the Police and Public, Trust is Everything

Nov 05 Archived: Education in the Eastside

Nov 05 Archived: Hope vs. Appeasement

Nov 05 Archived: From Our Readers

October, 2009

Oct 29 Archived: Ballot Recommendations for Tuesday November 3

Oct 29 Archived: Letter to the Editor: County Health Leaves Out East LA’s Younger Population

Oct 29 Archived: Cartoon: H1N1

Oct 29 Archived: For the Record

Oct 22 Archived: TARP Funds: Helping the Rich Stay That Way

Oct 15 Archived: CARTOON: Obama’s Pulitzer

Oct 15 Archived: Obama’s Tax on the Middle Class

Oct 15 Archived: Recession? What Recession?

Oct 08 Archived: Editorial: What’s the Real Deal Behind DWP/Nahai Agreement?

Oct 08 Archived: Neighbors Banding Together in Tough Times

Oct 08 Archived: A Billion Dollars: Serious Money for Californians

Oct 01 Archived: Editorial: Washington’s Disconnect With Average Consumers

Oct 01 Archived: Health Insurance and Immigration Reform – Separate but Inter-Related

Oct 01 Archived: You, Too, Should Care About What’s Happening to Journalism

September, 2009

Sep 24 Archived: Editorial: Readers Tell Us What They Think

Sep 24 Archived: Insurers Can Be Detrimental to Your Health

Sep 17 Archived: EDITORIAL: Free Urgent Care – Are you Kidding

Sep 17 Archived: The Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Sep 17 Archived: Prisoner’s Dilemma

Sep 10 Archived: Editorial: Notable Eastern Group Publications Anniversaries

Sep 10 Archived: Life and Death and Child Health Reform

Sep 10 Archived: Columnist Rose Soto Left Her Mark on Latino Community

Sep 03 Archived: Editorial: No Immigration Reform No Census Count Campaign A Very Bad Idea

Sep 03 Archived: Government Slow to Tackle ‘White Collar’ Immigration Crime

Sep 03 Archived: Domino Effect Keeps Minorities Out of Health Care Professions

August, 2009

Aug 27 Archived: EDITORIAL: The Old Lion Goes Home

Aug 20 Archived: Editorial: Child Welfare Should Mean Just That

Aug 20 Archived: NAFTA Is Our Real Problem

Aug 20 Archived: When Will the Heath-Care Debate Start?

Aug 13 Archived: Editorial: Attacks and Yelling Won’t Improve Health Care

Aug 13 Archived: Garfield High School Townhall: Thoughts From a Veteran of the Educational Justice Movement

Aug 13 Archived: The Writing On the Wall, Not the Bottle

Aug 06 Archived: Editorial: Court’s Decision on Prisons Will Inflict Even More Pain

Aug 06 Archived: The ‘Grapes of Wrath’ Today

Aug 06 Archived: Cartoon: Big Oil Vultures

Aug 06 Archived: Race Is Always Getting In The Way

July, 2009

Jul 30 Archived: Cartoon: July 30, 2009

Jul 30 Archived: 287G: Obama Opposes Yet Sanctions Racial Profiling

Jul 30 Archived: It’s Business As Usual on Wall Street

Jul 30 Archived: The Fatal Conceit of Health-Care Reformers

Jul 23 Archived: Editorial: State Didn’t Just Pass the Buck, They Slapped Us With It

Jul 23 Archived: AARP Finks Out On Health Care

Jul 23 Archived: Cityhood Effort Should Include More Civic Engagement

Jul 16 Archived: Hiring of Doctors Will Help Medically Underserved Rural Communities

Jul 16 Archived: Climate Change Legislation Caps Poor, Not Emissions

Jul 16 Archived: Mass Transit Cuts Global Warming (And War)

Jul 09 Archived: Editorial: Jackson Memorial: What’s the Big Deal? Just Send the Bill

Jul 09 Archived: Point/Counterpoint: California High School Exit Exam

Jul 02 Archived: To Sacramento: Do No Further Harm

Jul 02 Archived: Time for Immigration Reform is Now

Jul 02 Archived: Celebrating America’s Birth

June, 2009

Jun 25 Archived: True in 2006, Still True Today: Time for L.A. to Save the Southwest Museum

Jun 25 Archived: Untie the Hands of California School Districts

Jun 25 Archived: Death, Taxes and Debt Collectors

Jun 18 Archived: The Malign Value of a Value Meal

Jun 18 Archived: ‘Dan Munoz, Curmudgeon’

Jun 18 Archived: Time to Tackle Women’s Health

Jun 11 Archived: Editorial: Superior Court Judges Set Example, Who Will Be Next?

Jun 11 Archived: California Needs More Than Sunshine

Jun 04 Archived: Editorial: Public’s Right to Know Under Attack

Jun 04 Archived: Immigration Dilemma Not Going Away

Jun 04 Archived: Meeting the Education Challenge

May, 2009

May 27 Archived: Editorial: What’s Wrong with the Raul Morin/All Wars Memorial Name?

May 27 Archived: Abuse Frequently Against Elderly Women

May 27 Archived: Expanding Voter Participation: The Roadmap is Clear

May 21 Archived: Editorial: Legislature Must Sets Aside Partisanship to Solve Budget Crisis

May 21 Archived: Why We Were Arrested Over the Healthcare

May 21 Archived: Cartoon: Healthcare

May 14 Archived: The Move to Blame Taxpayers Is On

May 14 Archived: From Our Readers

May 07 Archived: Tuesday May 19, 2009 Special Elections Ballot Recommendations

May 07 Archived: Cinco de Mayo: The Real Story – Part 2

April, 2009

Apr 30 Archived: Editorial: A Quieter Cinco de Mayo Offers Time for Reflection

Apr 30 Archived: Curriculum at Mendez Learning Center Needs to be as Solid as the Buildings

Apr 30 Archived: Meeting the Basic Welfare of Society

Apr 23 Archived: EDITORIAL: Consumers Need Protection from Credit Card Companies

Apr 23 Archived: Facts Are So Stubborn

Apr 23 Archived: New Challenges Confront Students Seeking Higher Education

Apr 23 Archived: For the Record

Apr 16 Archived: Editorial: Bed Bugs Aren’t the Only Blood Suckers

Apr 16 Archived: Taxation with Misrepresentation

Apr 16 Archived: Will We Miss Newspapers, If They Die?

Apr 16 Archived: Even In An Economic Crisis, Follow The Money

Apr 09 Archived: Choosing Chick Is Governor’s Best Decision In a Long Time

Apr 09 Archived: President Barack Obama Gave Us His Word

Apr 09 Archived: Are Shovel-Ready Projects Ready for Corruption?

Apr 02 Archived: Governor’s Proclamation Honors César Chávez

Apr 02 Archived: Don’t Hike Workers Comp Rates

Apr 02 Archived: The U.S. Fuels Mexico’s Drug Wars

Apr 02 Archived: FOR THE RECORD

Apr 02 Archived: Commodity Speculation: It’s the Bankers Again

March, 2009

Mar 26 Archived: Editorial: Will the Stimulus Money be Enough?

Mar 26 Archived: Hope in Unlikely Places: Citizen Solutions

Mar 26 Archived: Tainted Research on Genetically Altered Seeds

Mar 26 Archived: What to Do When You Lose Your Health Insurance

Mar 19 Archived: Cartoon: March 19, 2009

Mar 19 Archived: The PPA: Help in an Uncertain Economy

Mar 19 Archived: Social Safety Nets and Community Compassion

Mar 19 Archived: Housing For All Needn’t Be So Painful

Mar 12 Archived: Editorial: Pile On or Reduce Taxes: Which is More Successful?

Mar 12 Archived: A Celebration of Aging

Mar 12 Archived: The Harsh Reality—and Hypocrisy—of Government Aid

Mar 12 Archived: From Our Readers: March 12, 2009

Mar 05 Archived: Editorial: Don’t Blame the Consumer for Not Spending

Mar 05 Archived: Corporate Executives Overpaid, Undertaxed

February, 2009

Feb 26 Archived: Tuesday March 3, 2009 Ballot Recommendations

Feb 26 Archived: Conference Committees Fade, Democracy Suffers

Feb 26 Archived: For Wall Street, ‘Greed’ is Too Weak

Feb 26 Archived: Cartoon: February 26, 2009

Feb 19 Archived: Editorial: State Senators Fixated on Maldonado

Feb 19 Archived: Bipartisan ‘Stimulus’ Nonsense

Feb 19 Archived: From Our Readers

Feb 12 Archived: Editorial: State’s Fiscal Problems Hurts People and Businesses

Feb 12 Archived: Ethics May Be To Much To Ask

Feb 12 Archived: Re: “Churchgoers Ask AQMD to Save Them from Pollution” by Gloria Angelina Castillo pub. Feb 5, 2009:

Feb 05 Archived: Solis Confirmation Hold Up Smacks of Big Business Bias

Feb 05 Archived: Trained Skilled Labor Force is the Real Economic Stimulus

Feb 05 Archived: Immigration Detention Reform Moves to Front Burner

January, 2009

Jan 29 Archived: Editorial: State Unemployment Stresses UI Fund: More Businesses Could Be Hurt

Jan 29 Archived: Barack is My Leader, but Not My President

Jan 29 Archived: Putting the Inauguration Into Perspective

Jan 22 Archived: Editorial: Shared Sacrifice? Maybe Obama Can Teach Us a Thing or Two

Jan 22 Archived: Rebuilding Green: The Next Revolution

Jan 22 Archived: Paying Doctors to Push Certain Meds More Common Than You Think

Jan 22 Archived: Correction

Jan 15 Archived: A Letter from the Editor: Hope for the Future Born Out of Hard Times

Jan 15 Archived: Economic Recovery Begins With Us

Jan 15 Archived: Poverty on the March

December, 2008

Dec 25 Archived: Time to Say Goodbye to 2008

Dec 25 Archived: Letters to Santa, Part Two

Dec 18 Archived: Editorial: Thrown Shoes Insult to All

Dec 18 Archived: Letters to Santa

Dec 18 Archived: So What’s Wrong With Closing Tax Loopholes?

Dec 11 Archived: The Kind of Neighbors We’ve Become

Dec 11 Archived: Pricing Fans Out of the Game

Dec 11 Archived: Death by Shoppers – Haunted by Wal-Mart

Dec 04 Archived: The Depression Is Starting to Look Good

Dec 04 Archived: More Regulations Needed — But on Government

Dec 04 Archived: Indigenous Elders Fight for their Home

November, 2008

Nov 27 Archived: Editorial: There Is Still Reason to Give Thanks, and We Should

Nov 27 Archived: A Time for Hope and Thanks

Nov 27 Archived: Public Works Is What Works

Nov 19 Archived: Editorial: Were County Supervisors Swayed by Costly Lobbying Effort?

Nov 19 Archived: Immigration Reform Under Obama Likely to be Piecemeal

Nov 19 Archived: Runaway Taxpayers

Nov 13 Archived: Editorial: Maybe Sacramento Needs A Washington Bail Out

Nov 13 Archived: Obama: Face of America’s Mestisaje

Nov 13 Archived: Afford a UC College Education? Yes, You Can!

Nov 07 Archived: Not Black President Obama, Just President Obama

Nov 07 Archived: A Veterans Day Message of Thanks

Nov 06 Archived: Editorial: Obama’s Election is Historic: Now the Real Work Begins

Nov 06 Archived: Cartoon: Clean Sweep Across the Land

October, 2008

Oct 30 Archived: Editorial: State Budget Falling Fast As Voters Asked to Take On More Debt

Oct 30 Archived: Making Votes Count

Oct 30 Archived: Don’t Ignore the Constitution During Election Season

Oct 23 Archived: EGP Endorses Barack Obama for President

Oct 23 Archived: November 4, 2008 Ballot Recommendations: Part 2

Oct 16 Archived: November 4, 2008 Ballot Recommendations: Part 1

Oct 16 Archived: An Economic War

Oct 09 Archived: When All Else Fails, Lie

Oct 09 Archived: Prop 11 Will Devastate Latino and Black Representation

Oct 09 Archived: Protecting the Vote

Oct 02 Archived: Cartoon: May Day on Wall Street

Oct 02 Archived: Editorial: Whatever Wall Street Wants Wall Street Gets

Oct 02 Archived: Google and Yahoo in Cahoots

Oct 02 Archived: Rafael Peralta, United States Marine

September, 2008

Sep 25 Archived: Government Failure Has Made a Mess

Sep 25 Archived: America Spends a Lot on Health Care — But So Does Everybody Else

Sep 25 Archived: Say No to the Proposed Bailout

Sep 25 Archived: Editorial: Paulson’s and Bernanke’s ‘Trust Us ’ Not Enough

Sep 18 Archived: Editorial: EGP Welcomes the New Vernon Sun!

Sep 18 Archived: Consumers Lose Homes, Banks Live Richly

Sep 18 Archived: Can a Burro Be a Genius?

Sep 18 Archived: Why Holding the Majority Matters

Sep 11 Archived: Editorial: We Remember Two Special Days in History

Sep 11 Archived: 9/11 x 7: An Equation For McCain? Obama? Anyone?

Sep 11 Archived: Erosion of Civil Liberties in Aftermath of 9/11

Sep 11 Archived: America’s Business Aristocracy

Sep 04 Archived: A Kangaroo Court in California

Sep 04 Archived: Editorial: Legislators Left Town, Ask Californians if They Care

Sep 04 Archived: Open Letter to Bell Gardens’ Police Chief/ Carta Publica al Jefe de Policia de Bell Gardens

August, 2008

Aug 28 Archived: Editorial: Stressed Mortgage Holders Could Save Banks

Aug 28 Archived: Immigration: Too Hot for the DNC?

Aug 28 Archived: Let’s Coordinate Preschool and Grade School

Aug 14 Archived: Letters to the Editor: August 14, 2008

Aug 14 Archived: Editorial: Garbage Pails Are a Foul Idea

Aug 14 Archived: Something is Rotten at the EPA

Aug 07 Archived: Joining the Corporate Bail-Out Receiving Line

Aug 07 Archived: Letters to the Editor

Aug 07 Archived: Editorial: Get Over It and Put the MTA Sales Tax on the Ballot

Aug 07 Archived: Open Letter: LA County Hospitals Fight for Their Lives

July, 2008

Jul 31 Archived: Railroading Immigrants…and the Constitution

Jul 31 Archived: ‘Myths and Lies’ Come from Left and Right

June, 2008

Jun 26 Archived: Truth in Voting: Do Polls Tell the Real Story?

Jun 26 Archived: Help Prevent Older Adult Falls

Jun 26 Archived: Want to Solve the Credit Crunch? Get Back to Cash

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