California Law Update: Lawmakers to Ban Spanking

How many of you are old enough to remember it being legal for teachers and principles to spank students if they were misbehaving? I am not. But I have heard stories. If you misbehaved, you faced the “ruler,” the “yardstick,” or the “paddle.” Abuse? Not hardly. Parents okayed the discipline and even reinforced it at [...]

Small Town Politics, Big Time Impact

I moved to Lancaster, California, four years ago. At that time I was not as involved in politics as I am now. But early on I met Sherry Marquez. Sherry and I had a common bond in that we both had lived in Florida and were Florida State football fans. That got us talking and [...]