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What ideologies do you associate with the Democratic and Republican parties? Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s it seemed pretty simple to me. Democrats stood for massive investment in the public interest. From Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson, they invested in big infrastructure projects. And invested in human needs with Head Start, Social Security, […]

Yeah! Sounds like a great way to celebrate California achieving the status two weeks ago of the state with the lowest background infection rate of all 50 (still true as of this writing). How about a party to celebrate how much fun it is to meet friends and neighbors on Coast Village Road and State […]

The February 18 edition of this column carried an impassioned plea for the two political parties, which together represent less than 50 percent of the voters, to let our people go! To let us pass into real democracy from the shared monopoly in U.S. politics that the Democrats and Republicans jointly control to their advantage, […]