President Donald Trump is pursuing a path that is actively destabilizing the guardrails of our Constitution. Unless he changes course, our nation � the world’s oldest continuing democracy � risks a crisis where the president is no longer beholden to the rule of law. Americans will suffer the consequences.
America’s Founding Fathers designed the Constitution to place political power in the hands of the people. They granted each of the government’s three branches � legislative, executive and judicial � specific powers, providing checks and balances for one another.
Imagine President Donald Trump waking up to the news that California faces a $12 billion deficit, and instead of letting the state reckon with its budget bloat, announcing a plan to make taxpa… Read moreCOUNTERPOINT: States getting salty over SALT
With the fire season upon us again, I'm wondering if we have some kind of citywide alarm system telling us to evacuate if that time comes? We are surrounded by forest and have been lucky so fa… Read moreLetter to the Editor: Idea sounds alarm on wildfires
As we think on Memorial Day, it is sobering to recognize that today’s young people are unlikely to respond as enthusiastically to a call to serve their country as members of the World War II g… Read morePOINT: No, and it’s not the young adultsâ€� fault
