In what is surely this legislative session’s biggest surprise, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 1383, which would have substantially weakened a modest pension reform bill backed by former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2012. The veto was especially unexpected given that AB 1383 cleared both houses of the legislature by nearly unanimous votes. In 2012, California’s pension debt exceeded $200 billi...
Jon Coupal · Oct 9, 2026
Annie Leonard, the co-founder of Committee for the First Amendment, voices her concerns about Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery in front of the California Attorney General’s Office in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2026. Photo by Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters In sheer economic terms, Southern California’s movie and television production industry is not terribly important, generating scarce...
Dan Walters · Oct 2, 2026
Two tax increase ballot measures facing voters this November deserve rejection. Proposition 3 would extend higher income tax rates initially imposed in 2012, while Proposition 40 is an attempt to levy a wealth tax on a handful of very rich individuals. Although not specifically related, the former offers a lesson why the latter should be viewed with skepticism. The genesis of Prop. 3 occurred i...
Jon Coupal · Sep 25, 2026
Oxnard—Frosty Flakes, Ward Ryder Frost Junior, as my beautiful mother, Dolores Theresa McGurr, called him, arrived on this earth on April 15, 1926, the oldest son of Ward Ryder Frost Senior and Eveleen Alice Donohue Frost on Long Island, New York. THE Frosts were financially secure during the Great Depression, as the Frost Family owned the Crystal Lake Hotel in Freeport, where he got his fir...
Chris Frost · May 1, 2026
Oxnard—Well, it’s finally happened. It took me some time to realize it was going to happen, but they’re never going to let my wife’s kidney be put in my body. MOST of the people who watch my nightly podcast know this, but I am moving back to Colorado. Those who read Frosted know this, but it had been quite an adventure throughout my whole dialysis nightmare. Well, it’s been more of a nightm...
Chris Frost · Apr 24, 2026
Oxnard—I have been talking, dreaming, and fantasizing about transplant day ever since the Nephrologist told me that I was cleared to get a transplant, first from my son, Travis, and then my wife, and spent the day crying and praying. I TOLD the supervisor and thought he would be happy for me, and gave a “yeah, that’s nice” answer to my news. This is the same guy who asked me to do him a fav...
Chris Frost · Apr 17, 2026
Dear Editor, I would like also to extend thanks to the Ventura County Superior Court. A couple of days before Thanksgiving, Moving Oxnard Forward won its lawsuit against the City of Oxnard, challenging the City’s unlawful employment of the same auditor year after year. Here’s some background: In the aftermath of the City of Bell scandal over a decade ago, the California legislature determ...
Apr 17, 2026
Oxnard—The first time I fell in love was the moment my blessed Mother, Dolores McGurr-Frost, held my body in her arms. That same day, my Father, Ward R. Frost Jr., patiently waited for my 27-hour delivery and held his second Son. My Father had a Son and a Daughter from his first marriage. SHORTLY after that, my Grandparents, Jack McGurr and Lucy Nitolo-McGurr, were there, and with my Father’...
Chris Frost · Apr 10, 2026
Oxnard—Here I sit, hoping to get down to LA, so I can get my pre-transplant workup done and hopefully, God willing, get off that machine. MEANWHILE, the multi-billion-dollar kidney industry is doing everything it can to keep me on the machine for the rest of my life. I had my second official transplant social worker to go along with a recent psychiatrist evaluation, which I did not take wel...
Chris Frost · Apr 3, 2026
Oxnard—I’ve had lots of issues with customer service in the past, whether it be on the phone or in person, which has left me jaded and relegated me to ordering things online. THE most recent escapade happened this morning when I tried to link my corporate cards to my accounting system. I asked a simple question: Can you do this, three times? Three times I asked the question, and three times...
Chris Frost · Mar 27, 2026
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