Americans have long had to fight City Hall, but now they have to fight an almost endless list of government bureaucracies at both the state and federal levels. Occasionally, however, the little guy ...

Q. With all of these fires we are having in California, Caltrans – in its infinite wisdom – was using lit flares on Coast Highway in North Laguna Beach. I was a sergeant with the California Highway ...

Two months ago, I wrote about the plight of a private, Tocquevillian-style civil association in the small town of Orcutt, California. That group, the Old Town Orcutt Revitalization Association (OTORA) ...

The agency set off a firestorm of protest last week when it removed a flag mural that had been painted on a concrete slab near the freeway section after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.