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Joe Mathews

Joe Mathews

Joe Mathews is the Connecting California Columnist and Editor, Zócalo Public Square, Fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (UC Press, 2010)

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A 2011 crime scene in Tulare County, where one of Jose Martinez's victims was found. | Courtesy of Marion County Sherff’s Office via FOIA/Buzzfeed
It's time to do better by communities that don’t even have local police to call, let alone defund.
Summer Olympic games in Los Angeles Aug.8, 1984. | photo by Associated Press
The Olympic Movement Is Relentlessly Corrupt, so Why Should Southern California Help Save It?
The Donald Trump piñata on a closet shelf | photo by Joe Mathews
My Trump Hasn't Made Any Racist Statements or Told Any Lies—But I Still Don't Know What to Do With Him
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking at Comic-Con 2012 | photo by Gage Skidmore
Former Gov. uses "a fist... wrapped in a velvet glove"
A plaque is seen in front of the Pasadena residence where Barack Obama lived during his sophomore year at Occidental College | Photo by John Antczak/Associated Press
There's even a proposal for a “President Barack H. Obama Freeway.”
Californians need to pitch in to save the Spanish language.
Our State’s Original Language Is in Decline and It’s Up to California Save It
Jerry Brown suspended CEQA in his drought declaration today.
Originally published in Fox & Hounds DailyWe’ll soon have two presidents, and one will live in SacramentoThere’s the guy that a plurality of American…
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