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...
Why would a young, bright successful guy go on a suicide mission?
Last Friday, Noah Green, age 25, went on a rampage ramming his car into two Capitol police officers who he never met. Then he...
EDD: The crisis continues
Assemblymember Marie WaldronSpecial to Valley NewsThe Employment Development Department has been mired in crisis for more than a year now. The massive backlog in...
Armenians like to use their names
Whatever else one might think of the Kardashian sisters they’ve opted to keep their Armenian last name rather than decide that use of an...