Opinion: In today’s pages: Talking politics at Thanksgiving
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.
Columnist Gregory Rodriguez remembers his uncle:
It happened relatively quickly. It was not exactly conventional. It was as unhappy as death can be. On Aug. 21, he was at a Home Depot in Alhambra, and a man in the line behind him got impatient, and then angry. He knocked Francisco to the ground and ran. My tio’s hip broke, and that was the beginning of the end. As sad as all this is, ‘la vida es una mierda’ isn’t what I’d put on my tio’s gravestone. I’d choose: Francisco Martino viviste como principe.
The Center for a New American Security’s Price B. Floyd notes that public diplomacy isn’t just PR. Writer Sherry Boschert says it’s time to bring back the electric car. And Guggenheim Foundation president Josiah Bunting III thinks it’s just fine to talk politics at Thanksgiving.
The editorial board argues for stronger airport security after a report revealing lapses, analyzes Southwest Airlines’ new business model, and reports back from a California conference on race and schools.
Readers react to the proposed pay hike for Los Angeles elected officials. L.A.’s Robert Helfman says, ‘Comparing the actual dollar salaries of the Los Angeles City Council and the New York City Council makes for a snappy headline. But it makes more sense to compare them on a price-per-resident basis, although even doing that reaches the same conclusion....’