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Silicon Valley gets off Scot-free

As one who has spent pleasant time on Sand Hill Road and the Stanford campus, I’m dismayed by the demands for special treatment coming from the denizens of one of America’s most privileged and affluent precincts. Sand Hill Road, leading up the hills above Stanford, was the home of Silicon ...

Worst is yet to come for Trump

Donald Trump did what many men do when confronted with extortion from a woman he may or may not have had a sexual relationship with. He paid her to remain silent. There is nothing inherently criminal about that, unlike so many other things Donald Trump did — like inciting a riot or trying ...

Please Mr. Biden, do your own job

Widely reported in the press is that President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express his concern about judicial reforms that are currently being considered in Israel. We must wonder why Biden, who demonstrably cannot run our own country, feels behooved to tell ...

Quick spring refreshes: Making the old place feel like new

Maybe you had hoped to be in a new home this year but were deterred by high housing prices. Maybe it’s just the arrival of spring that’s got you looking around your rooms and wanting something fresh. To make the old place feel like a new place, or just an updated place, designers and home ...

Wait to start your spring garden cleanup

When the blare of the year’s first leaf blower awakened me one morning last week, I realized spring cleanup had commenced -- no matter that March could still roar like a lion here in my Long Island, New York, neighborhood. It stands to reason that professional landscapers cannot ...

Los Angeles strike highlights paltry US school worker pay

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bus drivers shuttle America’s children to schools where cafeteria workers feed them and teacher aides assist students who need the most help. And their pay is notoriously low. School support staffers earn, on average, about $25,000 a year in Los Angeles, barely enough ...