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What the wildfires says about L.A.’s failure of imagination

What the wildfires says about L.A.’s failure of imagination
monday 20

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

The fires devastating Los Angeles aren’t ‘unbelievable’ — we Californians are 

The fires devastating Los Angeles aren’t ‘unbelievable’ — we Californians are 
20.01.2025 10

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

Why Canada and California should team up against Trump administration

Why Canada and California should team up against Trump administration
13.01.2025 30

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

Elections don’t always guarantee democracy; in fact, they actually hurt

Zeb Smathers, shows a ballot to his 4-year-old son, Stone Smathers, while voting on Nov. 5 in Canton, N.C.  For the new year, you might have...

05.01.2025 10

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

A California high school sports tournament just showed us how ‘equity’ can still work

Believe it or not, the California Interscholastic Federation has leveled the playing field for all high schools that play football.   In their...

22.12.2024 4

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

What Scotland can teach America about democracy

09.12.2024 6

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

California leaders can’t stop fighting each other long enough to prepare for Trump

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire must unite against Donald Trump. Since California...

01.12.2024 3

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

Californians can’t beat the Trump administration all by ourselves. We need global allies

California can tap allies from around the world in a potential fight with the U.S. government under a second Trump administration. Californians...

18.11.2024 2

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

California’s Coastal Commission rare government agency with a spine

The Marin Headlands and all of the state’s coastline are under the purview of the California Coastal Commission. California, let’s go Coastal....

11.11.2024 20

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

Dear Kamala: You can’t defeat Trumpism by agreeing with it. Here’s the winning formula

Kamala Harris visits the U.S.-Mexico border with U.S. Border Patrol Tucson Sector Chief John Modlin in Douglas, Ariz., on Sept. 27. Many of...

04.11.2024 20

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

You won’t find democracy on California ballot — but verbosity is well represented

Construction continues on a building during the first day of school at the newly constructed Emerald High School in Dublin on Aug. 13. School...

27.10.2024 3

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

This L.A. ballot measure could change California forever

Measure G proposes changing the Los Angeles County Charter to add four new supervisorial seats and establish an elected county executive.  Are men...

20.10.2024 4

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

It’s not democracy that’s in decline, it’s nation-states

Barbed wire fencing stretches across a barricade in front of the U.S. Capitol ahead of the presidential inauguration on Jan. 17, 2021 in Washington,...

06.10.2024 7

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

Citing encampments as state’s worst problem is a camp way of thinking

An encampment along Beach Street in Oakland on June 17, 2023. Lock up your tents, California! Toss out your camping gear! Hide your pillows and...

29.09.2024 7

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

Other than Kamala Harris, what else can Oakland feel good about?

The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Complex has lost all three of its pro sports tenants — the Raiders, Warriors and Athletics — in the past...

16.09.2024 3

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

Elections alone won’t save democracy in U.S. or elsewhere. Here’s what will help

 Elected governments increasingly exploit elections to establish minority rule, with economic elites maintaining outsized influence. Focusing on...

09.09.2024 20

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews

Why living in California feels like ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ right now

Dr. Miles J. Bennell (Donald Sutherland) is seemingly the only one who figures out the aliens’ plan in 1978’s “Invasion of the Body...

25.08.2024 4

San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Mathews