AENN Written by NICK PATSAOURAS. August 20 2026 NICK'S VIEW - We are appalled that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is demolishing closed schools in the West San Fernando Valley, according to LA School Report, leaving valuable public land as vacant eyesores instead of returning it to meaningful public use. This is a deliberate failure of public policy. More directly, it is blight by design. Let’s be honest: the school district is mismanaging public property and

AENN A teen lifeguard being hailed a hero for risking his life to save a 10-year-old boy from rough waves at a California beach met with President Donald Trump on Monday. 16-year-old Ryder Williams was welcomed to the Oval Office after saving the boy at Seabright State Beach on July 25. What you did was incredible and everybody saw it," Trump said. In the Oval Office, along with Williams were his fellow lifeguard employees, his family and 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai, whom he re

AENN August 21, 2026 by Joe Hoft California Says It Already Verifies Voters. The Evidence Says: Verify What? By Christine Bish | The Bish Report California Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff just inserted themselves into the Shasta County election fight. On August 19, Padilla and Schiff sent California Secretary of State Shirley Weber a letter demanding “maximum oversight” of Shasta County’s election operations. That makes this more than a local dispute. Padilla is Calif