Last year, California wildfires destroyed 13,000 homes. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced: "We are 100% committed to getting this neighborhood rebuilt again!" Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed that, saying his officials were "responding to it at scale, with efficiency ... addressing building ...

Every now and then my husband, Dave, channels his inner romantic hero and I melt into a puddle of goo. In this case a rather large chocolate flavored puddle. You see, every year on February 1 a mysterious Chocolate Bandit comes in the middle of the night and leaves chocolate treats for me and ...

The fact that a democratic socialist mayor presides over the nation's largest and most influential city has sparked panic in some quarters. Yet almost every economy mixes elements of privatization (or capitalism) and collectivization (or socialism). A purely privatized economy with almost no ...

Of late, there has been a national conversation about civics. When the United States took a deep dive into STEM fields, prioritizing them above everything else in education back in the 1950s, civics took a back, middle seat. All of the problems we have today, from affective polarization to ...

A young lawyer once asked an old Washington hand what to expect when he went down to work for a U.S. Senate committee. The old hand, who'd worked in the Capitol for years, reflected. "Here's the thing, son," he replied. "Things ain't all on the level down here." The point was ...

ROY – The most successful programs in high school basketball, like any interscholastic sport, are typically measured by all-time wins, state titles and the "greats" that carried on to greener pastures. So, as the world of high school and college athletics increasingly gravitates toward ...