Tom Elias

A bright sun, blue sky and equally blue Pacific Ocean formed the backdrop the other day when ex-President Donald Trump came to his golf course on

There is no 2024 election phenomenon from which former President Donald Trump has tried harder to distance himself than Project 2025, an inch-plus thick manifesto from the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation written largely by former officials in Trump’s 2017-21 administration.

A measure allowing voters in Solano County this fall to approve – or not – a vast new development about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco just might have been

More than 80% of Americans favor Israel over the Palestinian Hamas terror group in their ongoing conflict. Among college-age Americans, more than 57% favor Israel.

Tom Elias | California Focus At every level of government, there are times when it seems the left hand has no clue what the right hand is doing.

At every level of government, there are times when it seems the left hand has no clue what the right hand is doing. Nov. 8 might become one of those confounding times.

J.D. Vance was taken seriously when claiming that immigrants arriving at the border nearly penniless are competing with American citizens for homes.

At every level of government, there are times when it seems the left hand has no clue what the right hand is doing. Nov. 8 might become one of those

The election is well under way, even if results are not yet in. Meanwhile, the controversial Proposition 13 is far from finished with absorbing criticism.

It’s easy to criticize the field now running for California governor, an office now occupied by perhaps the ultimate lame duck — Gavin Newsom.