Column: Cannabis has downsides, especially for kids. We need to acknowledge them
There was a time in my life, in the not-so-distant past, when cannabis was immensely important to me. Not because I used it — I've tried it but don't like...
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Column: Looking for an issue to unite a divided nation? That would be marijuana
We may be a deeply divided nation, but there's one thing we agree on across the political gulf: pot. In every state, blue and red, where it was on the...
Commentary: Rep. Adam Schiff’s take on spending his days inside Trump’s head: ‘It’s pretty scary in there’
President Donald Trump's No. 1 nemesis invited me to visit him in Burbank, California, on Monday. How could I resist? U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff had just returned from the annual...
The tender, terrifying truth about the Trader Joe’s hostage siege, and how one woman negotiated her way to survival
About halfway through the three-hour siege at Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake, the wounded gunman, Gene Atkins, looked at one of his hostages, MaryLinda Moss, and told her it was...
The #MeToo movement and all those scandals? For Trump, it’s as if they never happened
President Donald Trump wants a U.S. Supreme Court that will overturn Roe v. Wade. He supported separating mothers from their small children at the border. And he has revived his...
A few more words on Alzheimer’s prevention: Tap water? Caviar? Twinkies?
Lisa Mosconi, an Italian-born neuroscientist and nutritionist, had no idea how important the taste of water was to her until she moved to New York City and took a long...
How much love is in the Trump marriage?
America asks a lot of its first couples. Fairly or not, they become national marital role models. We don't really care if they have separate bedrooms, but we do expect...
Is Aziz Ansari a victim of ‘revenge porn’ or a perpetrator?
The Aziz Ansari cultural moment was inevitable. Ansari, the immensely talented actor who just won a Golden Globe for his work on “Master of None,” has been very publicly accused...
A bone shard, a molar, an artificial hip — the grim task of finding victims of the California fires
The Sonoma County Search and Rescue Team arrived Sunday on Dover Court around 2:30 p.m. The neighborhood was gone. There was nothing recognizable as a home, except the chimney, and...
A family of four tried to outrun the California firestorm — only three made it
I drove as far as I could on Sweetland Road, a private dirt lane up a mountain in Redwood Valley northeast of Ukiah. When I came upon two incinerated vehicles...