Vaccine emphasis shows Facebook’s divisiveness
Facebook’s emphasis on the coronavirus vaccine shows the social media platform’s divisiveness.Facebook emphasizes certain types of posts, and the focus on who received a...
Efficiency is key to building water-wise communities
Greg ThomasSpecial to Valley NewsAt Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, we’re passionate about building water-wise communities. We’re proud of all the steps that our...
‘If masks don’t work, why do surgeons wear them?’
Dr. Jim Meehan, a surgeon who has performed over 10,000 surgeries wearing a mask recently did an op-ed where he explained the difference between...
Protecting wild horses and burros
Assemblymember Marie WaldronSpecial to Valley NewsThis year, I am joining Assemblymember Luz Rivas, D-Arleta, to write Assembly Joint Resolution 5, to urge the federal...
Did Polish jokes lead to mentality of overcaution
Maybe the reason America has become so overcautious is the Polish jokes often told in the 1960s and 1970s.The Polish joke was the predecessor...
Corporate actions, political disinformation is hypocritical and destructive
I was surprised when President Joe Biden made the claim that Georgia’s election integrity laws “makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.” What? Is...
Arbor Day is a call to action
Assemblymember Marie WaldronSpecial to Valley NewsArbor Day is April 30, an observance that began in 1872 when the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture adopted...
A victim of city-ism
Having been male all my life, it was hard for me to empathize with women when the word “he” was used in cases which...
Letter to the editor
Letter to the editor,President Joe Biden recently issued an executive order reinterpreting the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This order threatens to cancel women’s sports by allowing...
The madness of vaccine passports
Assemblymember Kevin KileyCA 6th DistrictMy legislation prohibits the mandating of vaccine passports “as a condition of receiving any service or entering any place.” I’m...