Editorials

A ballot measure filed this week proposes a one penny tax on plastic packaging in California.

It’s now official what many education advocates have been arguing for years: Not all the extra funding intended for disadvantaged students is going to those kids.

Mexico’s president may be running out of time to show his increasingly beleagured constituents that his prescription for dealing with cartel violence can work.

SoCal leaders are considering a sprawl-promoting plan that would put more housing in the Inland Empire instead of where the shortage is most acute.

Americans can be excused for wondering why, of all the possible reasons for subjecting President Trump to an impeachment inquiry, Democrats in the House are focusing on the president’s interactions with the leader of a relatively small country that is not terribly well known or well understood in the United States.

The Trump administration’s plan to open up national parks to Amazon deliveries, food trucks and the like threaten the very thing that make nature appealing.

The only thing Trump accomplishes by threatening to out the whistleblower is to intimidate others into silence. Perhaps that’s the goal.

Of all the dangerous, ignorant and insupportable decisions by the Trump administration, pulling the U.S. out of the Paris agreement stands tallest.

Time’s up for Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

Despite a slew of reforms at Santa Anita, more horses died this fall. If things don’t change, we need to ask ourselves if we should keep racing horses.

Lebanon, roiled by political protests, is also drowning in garbage. The two phenomena are linked.

The University of California is right to reconsider the use of the SAT and ACT in admissions. But it shouldn’t rush its conclusions just because of the threat of a lawsuit.