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Jan 8, 2025 | 
brownstone.org | Thomas Buckley
Bureaucracies are fascinating creatures – and, at all levels, government, corporate, academic, institutional, creatures they are. They are living things interconnected – either internally, when, for example, seven people have to sign off on a two-paragraph memo, or externally, when the creation of a new job and/or task in one bureaucracy necessitates the creation of another job in another bureaucracy simply to be in compliance and have the ability to communicate with the other organization.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
californiaglobe.com | Thomas Buckley
Because that’s where the money is. That was famed bank robber Willie Sutton’s very possibly apocryphal response when asked why he robbed banks. Now the money is in government benefit programs and that’s why they are being defrauded at record rates.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
californiaglobe.com | Thomas Buckley
In about a month – barring an upset of epic proportions – Nathan Hochman will become the new Los Angeles County District Attorney.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
californiaglobe.com | Thomas Buckley
If Donald Trump is elected president, a few things will happen here in California. First, Attorney General Rob Bonta will immediately begin filing nearly daily lawsuits against him, most likely even before Trump is sworn in.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
californiaglobe.com | Thomas Buckley
Much of the discussion surrounding the massive wave of illegal aliens who have swarmed over the border has focused on big issues such as crime and poverty. And that is good – the gangsters and terrorists flooding in and taking over apartment complexes – sorry, ABC, taking over just a few is not really better than a half dozen: the number should be zero – are causing mayhem from New York to California and everywhere in between.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
californiaglobe.com | Thomas Buckley
We at the Globe try to be fair so we reached out to current Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon to set up an “end of the campaign” chat – you know, how does he think his run against Nathan Hochman has gone, does he think he will surprise people Tuesday, etc.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
californiaglobe.com | Thomas Buckley
Gordon Leon was driving a Bobcat fixing his sewer line from his house to the drain on the street when he took a minute to talk to the California Globe about the recent announcement that Rancho Palos Verdes has obtained $42 million from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) to try to mitigate the ever-expanding, ever-accelerating landslide problem in the city. “It’s a step sideways,”Leon said Tuesday, referring to deal.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
capoliticalreview.com | Thomas Buckley
All of this is political, of course, and in a very oddly revealing wayThank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The Los Angeles Times declined to endorse a presidential candidate. Click here to SUBSCRIBE to CA Political Review A big deal around here, but the Times does not even possess a shadow of the national influence it once did, so besides irking Hollywood and west side obsessive progressives, it really did not mean that much in the grand scheme of things.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
californiaglobe.com | Thomas Buckley
The Los Angeles Times declined to endorse a presidential candidate. A big deal around here, but the Times does not even possess a shadow of the national influence it once did, so besides irking Hollywood and west side obsessive progressives, it really did not mean that much in the grand scheme of things.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
californiaglobe.com | Thomas Buckley
For the first time since the campaign for Los Angeles District Attorney began last year, current DA George Gascon actually got more money during a campaign finance reporting than his opponent Nathan Hochman. Between September 22 and October 19, Gascon raised about $86,000 while Hochman only raised about $62,000.
