VOICES

COMMENTARY - My mind keeps going back to the gloves on Rittenhouse’s hands, glowing blue in the streetlight, as this strange kid marched from block to block down Kenosha’s tear-gassed streets, with a goofy look on his face, like he was moving from one kill level to another in a video game for the damned.

UNCIVIL LIBERTIES - The ACLU of Northern California has concluded a year-long Freedom of Information campaign by uncovering massive spying on Black Lives Matter protests from the air.

RACIAL RECKONINGS - The holiday season is in full swing, with Christmas carols on the radio and shopping sales luring customers to spend their cash.

PERSPECTIVE ON RITTENHOUSE - I was a troubled teen. I remember the day I was called to my high school’s administrative office to receive a call. He gave me advice I have never forgotten.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - In her recent book, Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya ngar-Sargon, claims that the media is run by the extremes leaving no media for the vast center. 

MARC'S ANGLE - There is a societal epidemic: pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine zealots who virtue signal by telling others what to do with their own bodies. Both sides are happy to shame those who either take or don’t take the vaccine. 

PERSPECTIVE - Another year has passed under the shadow of the pandemic and much of our focus has been on what has gone wrong and in attacking those we think are responsible for our suffering. 

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was involved in a physical fight at Los Angeles City Hall last month that resulted in him receiving first aid from the paramedics from Emergency Medical Services Bureau of the Fire Department, KNEWZ has exclusively learned

POLITICAL LANDSCAPE - Families, and the lack of them, are emerging as one of the great political dividing lines in America, and much of the high-income world.

LGBTQ POLITICS - On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, I am filled with grief and rage.

COST OF LIVING - Many Americans are noticing the rising price of goods from sour cream to carburetors as politicians sound the alarm on an inflation crisis.

PROGRESSIVE POLITICS - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York warned Sunday that congressional Democrats risk depressing turnout in upcoming elections if they further weaken their flagship reconciliation package, which right-wing lawmakers have already stripped of popular programs and cut by roughly $2 trillion overall.