Mariel Garza

With a $21.5-billion surplus, Gov.

President Trump’s lawyers say the president will challenge Senate Bill 27, California’s newly minted and possibly unconstitutional law requiring primary candidates to release five years of tax reform if they want to appear on the March 2020 primary ballot. But someone already beat him to it: Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente. De La Fuente, a rich San Diego car dealer and perpetual losing candidate, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court. In the filing, he says he plans to challenge Trump for…

Rep. Katie Hill (D-Santa Clarita) has been a rising star among House Democrats since her surprise victory over Republican incumbent Steve Knight in the traditionally conservative 25th District in 2018. But her star dimmed this week when the House launched an ethics investigation into allegations made by Hill’s estranged husband that she had an affair with a male congressional staffer. Under new #MeToo-inspired House rules, that’s not allowed. It’s also just wrong for a boss to engage in a relati…

The rapid passage this week of an $8.3-billion emergency spending plan to fight the spread and severity of the coronavirus shows that Congress and the president are willing to set aside their petty partisanship in the face of the emerging health threat. That’s reassuring. What’s not is that they left out of the funding package an important tool to fight the spread of COVID-19: paying people with coronavirus symptoms to stay home from work. The dollars will go to vaccine and therapeutics developm…

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that social distancing would probably continue through the summer. I know what you’re thinking, because I had the same initial thought: There’s no way I can stand four more months of this lockdown. But that’s not what Birx meant, at least I think and hope not. A socially distanced summer doesn’t mean we continue to remain hunkered down in our homes until September, except for the occasiona…

Appointing a former pharma executive to run the coronavirus vaccine program is like handing live ammo to anti-vaccine misinformation campaigns.

No tattoos. No touch ups. No Pilates. No God. It’s Lockdown 2.0, SoCal style.

This is a bad year to put off getting protected from the annual flu.

It’s now increasingly popular for people to protest at the homes of officials and bureaucrats whose policies they disagree with. It’s worrisome.

It’s entirely reasonable and, frankly, rational to relax the outdoor face covering rules as we head into warmer weather. The risks of COVID infection from strolling around outside are so low as to be negligible.