Thomas Buckley, Author at California Globe

No More Words

September 5, 2022 2:30 amSeptember 5, 2022 8:21 am

Politicians and pundits like to sound smart, especially when they are not. Like the man who buys a Porsche to compensate for certain personal shortcomings, people in office and the people who talk about them throw around theoretically fancy terms...

From Sri Lanka to Salinas: Will California Learn Anything from Sri Lanka’s Green Apocalypse?

August 31, 2022 11:12 pmSeptember 2, 2022 1:56 pm

Ah, Sri Lanka. In 2020: a beautiful, agriculturally self-sufficient island nation full of tea and tourists and holder of the highest “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) investor rating in the world. And then, as part of the larger “green”...

What Else California Could Have Done With the High-Speed Rail Funds

July 25, 2022 2:50 amJuly 24, 2022 7:39 pm

First things first, let’s set some parameters for this article. One – California’s High Speed Rail network is not going to be built. At this point, that’s a given. Two – Even it were to be built and managed to hit...

Gavin ‘Orchis Hairgelia’ Newsom in 2024?

July 24, 2022 2:30 amJuly 23, 2022 5:46 pm

So Gavin Newsom is running for President (well, kinda maybe, probably pinky swear if he has no other way to save the country from itself possibly). He doesn’t stand a chance, though oddly enough it may not be totally his...

What the Third Congressional District Candidates Are Saying, Part 2

May 17, 2022 6:23 amMay 17, 2022 6:35 am

The newly re-drawn Third California Congressional district is big. It is bigger in square-milage than nine states and, if on the other side of the country, would – length-wise – stretch from Baltimore to Boston. While the local concerns may...

What the Attorney General Candidates are Saying About ‘Quality of Life’ Offenses

May 16, 2022 10:05 amMay 16, 2022 2:39 pm

Law enforcement concepts, like so many other things in life, tend to shift in the wind. Until rather recently, most of California had embraced a “tough on crime” approach – including three strikes laws and – in many jurisdictions –...

CA Globe Interview With Congressional District 3 Candidates

May 16, 2022 6:45 amMay 16, 2022 7:31 am

As we have done with other races, the California Globe presents a question-and-answer series with the candidates, this time Scott Jones and Kevin Kiley – two of the four people in the race to represent California’s newly re-drawn Third Congressional...