Category: Northern California

Cancel Culture: A Remanifestation of Fascism

Commentary If history teaches us anything, it is that the past is perhaps the single darkest shadow haunting humanity. Since the dawn of human civilization, our modern world has made countless attempts to rewrite, escape, and even purge its most dreadful memories, while clinging dear to that which is better remembered. Let’s face it: the…


Evacuations Lifted as Progress Made Against Fires in US West

BLY, Ore.—Firefighters in Oregon reported good progress in the battle against the nation’s largest wildfire, while authorities canceled evacuation orders near a major blaze in Northern California and another on Hawaii’s Big Island. Containment of the Bootleg Fire in remote southern Oregon was up to 84 percent late Sunday. It was 56 percent contained a…


4 Killed in Helicopter Crash in Remote California Region

COLUSA, Calif.—Four people aboard a helicopter were killed when it crashed Sunday in a remote area of Northern California, the Colusa County Sheriff’s Department said. The department confirmed the deaths to the KXTV station. The four people died at the scene, said the department, which did not release their identities. The Robinson R66 crashed around…


A Closer Look at Voter Fraud, San Francisco Style!

Commentary Voter fraud is the cancer that is eroding the very heart and soul of the American democratic system. It is one of the most serious problems facing America today. I am sure that there are those who choose to believe that it does not exist in our country, and they are certainly entitled to…


Time to End Another Failed California Gun Control Law

Commentary Gun control laws don’t work. Yet politicians eager to curb Americans’ Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” keep pushing for tighter laws to grab more guns. A good example is California’s Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS), defined by Attorney General Rob Bonta’s website as “a database populated with data from a…


Blackout Fears Power Generator Sales

Californians are rushing to buy generators as worries of potential blackouts—triggered by heat waves and forest fires—linger. “The grid is getting worse and worse every year,” Elite Generators Co-owner Lupaenne Campos told The Epoch Times. “The infrastructure and the repair work are slow, so there’s a lot of averages going on now… Edison is shutting down power…


California Union Opposes Newsom’s Vaccine Order

California’s biggest public sector union has come out in opposition to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order requiring state workers to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or undergo regular testing. Richard Louis Brown, president of SEIU Local 1000, which represents some 96,000 employees of the State of California, on Wednesday shared a letter from the union to the California…


Students Will Pay the Price for University of California’s Financial Missteps

Commentary The Board of Regents of the University of California (UC) recently voted to raise the tuition of students every year for the next five years. So many of Orange County’s parents would love to see their children attend one of this system’s nine excellent campuses. Our community has been blessed in many ways by…


Tide Pools, Seascapes, and a Fairy-Tale Grove

If you long to escape your surroundings, enter another world, and observe strange little creatures, the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in San Mateo County, California, can’t be beat. Recently, I proposed an early morning day trip to the tide pools, and to my joy, my teenagers consented to go along. You have to go when the…


President of the Orange County Board of Education: CRT Is Marxism That Endangers the US

Many parents of all races are opposing critical race theory (CRT) across in the United States. Mari Barke, president of the Orange County Board of Education in California, thinks that anti-Americans use the Marxist CRT as a weapon to demonize those with different views, “that is the real danger in this country today.” Barke runs…