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Joel Pollak

STORY ANGLES - Focuses on political dynamics: Analyzes leadership bids, electoral challenges, and political decision-making impacts. - Emphasizes accountability: Highlights failures in governance, preparedness, and public trust erosion.

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14
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Joel Pollak

    Xavier Becerra gets battered by Steve Hilton in debate — then resorts to desperate tactic (opens the original)

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    Xavier Becerra may be ahead in the polls, but lost badly to Steve Hilton in Wednesday night’s gubernatorial debate on CNN. Hilton, the Republican outsider, ran circles around Becerra, the Democrat, who seemed unable to answer basic questions about his record or his policies. Becerra wanted to debate President Donald Trump — deeply unpopular in California — but walked into one trap after another. The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now. When Becerra tried to attack Hilt

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Joel Pollak

    Nithya Raman and Zohran Mamdani are both socialists — but there’s a key difference (opens the original)

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    Karl Marx said that history repeats twice: “[T]he first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Marx was describing the 1848 revolution in France, but he may as well have been describing the socialist campaign of Nithya Raman in Los Angeles. Raman leads incumbent Karen Bass in the latest polls for LA mayor. If that lead holds, she will achieve the second major socialist victory since Zohran Mamdani in New York last November. The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Joel Pollak

    Dave Regan’s alleged bullying should put an end to ‘billionaire tax’ (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. Union boss Dave Regan allegedly uses ballot initiatives to bully people into doing what he wants. That’s the accusation at the heart of a new lawsuit by a group of community health clinics who say that Regan tried to use one of this year’s ballot initiatives, Proposition 44, to “extort” them (in the complaint’s words) and force them to unionize. Proposition 44 would require community health clinics to spend at least 90% of their budgets on actual

  4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Joel Pollak

    UCLA should tell radical faculty they are free to leave (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. Extremist left-wing professors are attacking UCLA chancellor Julio Frenk for the thoughtcrime of opposing antisemitism and terrorism, in the name of the university, in a recent statement. In response, Frenk wrote the professors a very polite letter. He should have told them to go to hell instead. The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now. UCLA’s law school held a symposium on Sept. 11 that criticized America’s response to

  5. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Joel Pollak

    Will someone please give Kamala Harris another job? (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. Kamala Harris needs to find a way to cash out of politics — like the rest of the failed politicians do. She ran, she lost. Why is she still talking about running again? The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now. You’d think, by now, that she would have found herself a few corporate board seats. A spot on the lecture circuit. A no-show job at a university somewhere. Heck, even Bob Dole got into hawking Viagra. Kamala doesn’

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