The Jewish festival of Passover celebrates a triumph of good over evil for all time (“Passover and the eternal struggle of good and evil,” web, April 20).
Insurance companies may check photos of your home before deciding whether to renew your policy.
To the editor: The Times has just ensured that no space is without a firearm. The front-page coverage of the left-leaning gun instructor who provides his services to otherwise liberal folks — because "I don't wanna be the only one not to have one" — is a miserable excuse to increase the number of gun violence deaths owing to unsafe gun storage. The prevalence of guns contributes to accidental gun deaths, suicide and homicide from domestic conflict. Those of us working to stem the onslaught of...
Life ends at 40 for most of the great ones in sports.
To the editor: In 2016, First Lady Michelle Obama famously said, "When they go low, we go high," referring to Republican nominee Donald Trump's bullying tactics during the presidential campaign. The catchphrase was a message for Democrats to behave differently than someone who treats others with disdain. ("Biden still trails Trump in the polls. His problem goes beyond inflation, Gaza and age," Opinion, May 14) Unfortunately, that's a recipe for political suicide in the Trump era. To the MAGA...
To the editor: It’s great that President Biden expanded two protected areas in California, including the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. My question is, will the people of Los Angeles, with increased access as well as the institutions charged with protecting it, actually respect what they've been given? I've spent lots of time working with volunteer organizations to pick up trash and break down swimming dams along rivers. We have begged the U.S. Forest Service to deal with graffiti....
To the editor: As a displaced resident of Palo Verde — one of the neighborhoods cleared in the 1950s at the current site of Dodger Stadium — I do not support Assembly Bill 1950, the Chavez Ravine Accountability Act. But I do support justice and government accountability for families displaced by the city of Los Angeles. ("What does Los Angeles owe the people who lost their homes in Chavez Ravine? More than an apology," editorial, May 9) AB 1950 would require Los Angeles to create a commission of...
Foreign policy wins under Joe Biden's administration have been in short supply. Yes, the president has done an admirable job cobbling together a durable coalition with Europe on behalf of Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia’s aggression. And unlike previous administrations, which paid lip service to the Indo-Pacific being a priority, Biden actually seems to believe it — the State Department and Pentagon have spent considerable time bringing East Asian allies onside and even brokered an...
To the editor: Your article on new scientific interventions to address global climate issues opens with the questionable claim that direct air capture to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide represents perhaps one of "the world's best hopes for combating climate change." And yet you quickly point out that it would take 1 million facilities like the initial plant now operating in San Joaquin County to make a meaningful impact on global carbon levels. Is that a viable strategy? We will need to...
Jamestown City Council will review a proposal to deal with retirees who are not making timely payments on their health insurance premiums. The administration’s staff report stated the policy would set time limitations and implement late payment fees for retirees who do not pay the premiums on time. The proposed policy would institute a fee […]
We’ve all seen them. Video clips that seemingly crop up daily. President Biden, stumbling over his words, caught in another story that rings untrue, or even physically struggling to get around.
The rappers’ fiery diss-battle has raised allegations of domestic violence and sex abuse – but for the wrong reasonsDrake and Kendrick Lamar have been battling it out for days in a vicious diss-track feud, but what started out as a sparring of wits between two of the world’s biggest rappers has quickly devolved into an excruciating game of who can expose the most damning thing about the other.On his songs Meet the Grahams and Not Like Us, Lamar addresses Drake’s well-documented history of...