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Manuel Padilla Jr.

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Manuel Padilla Jr. has over 40 years of professional writing experience in the media and publishing worlds, working as a newspaper reporter and editor; marketing, public relations and advertising professional; and public speaker. He has written pieces which have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other publications, and was also a regular columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News. He has held management positions with Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union, The California Endowment, City National Bank and Los Angeles Daily News. www.manuelpadillajr.com ...more

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Weighted Weightlessness: January 2026

Just what is it about the holidays that makes us want to stop and pause and assess and as my spouse says “to take inventory” of our lives per se?

Is it some kind of morbid obsession to look for the flaws in the lives which we aspire to build as perfectly as possible? Or, could it be the grace we allow ourselves to examine the very fabric of the why and how of ou

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The House of the Seven Gables

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I was very curious to see how anyone (democrat or republican) could mount a presidential campaign in a short period of time and "107 Days" certainly explains how elections are crafted, fought and in this case, lost. Reading this quasi-tell all book, ...more
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I was very curious to see how anyone (democrat or republican) could mount a presidential campaign in a short period of time and "107 Days" certainly explains how elections are crafted, fought and in this case, lost. Reading this quasi-tell all book, ...more
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Manuel Jr. and 262 other people liked Tim Null's review of 107 Days: "Kamala Harris tells us that when we fight, we win, but sometimes, the fight takes a while. We must play the long game."
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