CALMATTERS: Ironically, Californians and Missourians can’t legally bet on their Super Bowl teams | Columns
Sunday’s Super Bowl, pitting the San Francisco 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs and staged in Las Vegas’ new stadium,…
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CALMATTERS: The collapse of California’s news industry is so severe it’ll require taxpayer support to rebuild | Columns
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is probably one of the more generous newspaper owners in the country – and he just announced…
CALMATTERS: California’s unique employee lawsuit law could be repealed if ballot measure passes | Columns
In 2003, just five days after California voters recalled then-Gov. Gray Davis, he signed landmark legislation making it easier for…
CALMATTERS: How long will California lawmakers let tech companies make them look like fools? | Columns
“Fool me once, shame on you,” the saying goes. With the benefit of hindsight, there’s no better encapsulation of the…
CALMATTERS: Outsiders love bashing California but residents are souring on the state, too | Columns
As Republican presidential candidates were slogging through Iowa and talking to voters prior to this week’s caucuses, California-bashing was common….
TYRADES! Been at your job too long? | Columns
Without much fanfare (okay, I did write and voice a radio commercial noting the milestone), I recently marked 25 years…
CALMATTERS: California’s worker shortage has quickly become another existential issue | Columns
Millions of Americans watched last weekend as NFL teams played the final games of their regular season. California fans were…
CALMATTERS: Could Gavin Newsom actually mount a successful presidential campaign? | Columns
It wasn’t the most important political story in California this year, but Gov. Gavin Newsom’s headlong plunge into national –…
Amazon Pilot Season failure shows where streaming went wrong
In 2013, Amazon’s fledgling streaming service, Prime Video, had a new form of competition to confront. With Netflix’s international expansion…
CALMATTERS: Politicians refused to fix California’s boom-and-bust tax system. They now face a $68 billion deficit | Columns
It is truly amazing – and not in a good way – that California’s politicians cannot grasp a phenomenon that…