Column: Crescenta Valley’s father-son duo making most of final season
When Crescenta Valley boys’ basketball coach Shawn Zargarian first started taking car rides with son Vaughn during his high school days, neither was certain it…
When Crescenta Valley boys’ basketball coach Shawn Zargarian first started taking car rides with son Vaughn during his high school days, neither was certain it…
SACRAMENTO — Stu Spencer had certain guideposts he followed as California’s premier political consultant for several decades.Those guideposts helped elect actor Ronald Reagan California governor and,…
WASHINGTON — President Trump promised an inaugural address focused on “unity,” but what he delivered was more a campaign speech in a formal suit — long…
WASHINGTON — For 236 years, ever since George Washington, a newly elected president’s inaugural address has traditionally served several purposes.One is simply to mark the beginning…
Sportswriters should make a yearly commitment to readers so they know where they are coming from. It doesn’t mean every commitment can be fulfilled, but…
Watching Anaheim Canyon’s 6-foot-5 senior Brandon Benjamin score, rebound, pass and continuously make a difference on a basketball court against everyone and anyone brings back…
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign excursions into foreign policy were few and far between. He promised to build a stronger military and keep the country out…
California’s burning and its political foes are practically dancing in the flames and reveling in the ashes.From the mountains to the sea, the wreckage and…
WASHINGTON — By the standard President Biden set himself, the core purpose he proclaimed when he ran in 2020, it is impossible to assess his one-term…
Jaime Jaquez Jr., with no facial hair and looking every bit like the teenager he was, took time out after a basketball game at Camarillo…
It’s time to peer into my crystal ball to see what 2025 has in store for the Southland’s high school athletes (and a few former…
WASHINGTON — I spent much of 2024 warning readers that a second Trump presidency would do serious damage to American institutions, beginning with democracy and the…
In the lives of public figures a tale often takes hold and that narrative becomes their story.In the case of Jimmy Carter, it goes like…
The good news: None of the predictions I made in last year’s annual Gustradamus columna came true. If any did, it would have been a…
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s campaign for a second term has stalled. In public opinion surveys, he has trailed Democratic nominee Joe Biden, sometimes by a wide…
WASHINGTON — Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee as the next director of the FBI, has big plans.He has called for the prosecution of a long…
SACRAMENTO — Kamala Harris could make history as the first woman and person of color to be elected California governor. But she’d need to really want…
Over the phone, Lena Gonzalez’s voice had the patient but proud tone of a lawyer charged with defending the damned.Her metaphorical client: The California Latino…
Somebody kept calling.“Hello,” I’d answer.Nobody would respond. There was only the sound of talking in the background. It happened five times.The mystery was solved when…
Patrick Riley is director for governmental affairs of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in Washington Within days of Clarence Thomas’s nomination to…