Editorials

Ah, technology. It’s a love and hate affair. The recent Iowa caucus—the nation’s first say in the 2020 presidential race—was a titanic win for the old pen-and-paper crowd. A broken mobile phone app, delayed results, frustrated candidates and worse— doubt in the reliability of the entire democratic process—cast a pall over the electoral process. But enough about Iowa. Could it […]

California’s housing affordability problem just never seems to go away. During the past two years in Ventura County there’s been what economists call a negative net migration—more people moving out of the county than moving in, due in part to the cost and availability of housing. Even though the county’s population growth has slowed, rents and home prices continue to […]

Late last year, a Sacramento man was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of human trafficking of a minor and two counts of pimping. James Arthur Powell’s 2018 arrest began with a tip from a Citrus Heights Police Department detective to local sheriff’s deputies that a 14-year-old runaway was believed to be somewhere in […]

“That’s not fair.” It’s a refrain you hear often from kids when they’re not happy with the way things are going. Adults have come to realize that life is many things, and fair isn’t one of them. A recent finding by Major League Baseball that the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox used video technology to steal pitching signs and […]