Is aerial monitoring of our city streets the future of policing? A system that would make it a reality has already been tested in several including some locations in California. For nine days in early 2012, the LA County Sheriff’s
Back in February, billionaire Tom Steyer committed to donating $100 million with the goal of making climate change a major issue in the 2014 election. Now Steyer is claiming he is nothing like the Koch brothers, the billionaires designated as
Newly released voter registration data for California shows that the percentage of the population registering as either Republican or Democrat has dropped since the last gubernatorial election in 2010. The data published Tuesday by Secretary of State Debra Bowen shows a
Neel Kashkari, one of the Republican candidates for Governor of California, published a new blueprint for the state’s education system Tuesday. The focus is on making public schools in the state operate more like charter schools. Currently California ranks near
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes had a piece in the Nation Tuesday in which he compared putting an end to the use of fossil fuels to the abolition of slavery. There are a couple of big problems with Hayes’ argument which he
The boomerang generation is now a middle-aged phenomenon. Thanks to the recession, an increasing number of middle-aged adults are moving home to live with their elderly parents. UCLA professor Steven Wallace tells the Los Angeles Times: “The numbers are pretty amazing.”
A teacher in Richmond, California was fired after charges of abusing six elementary-age boys on overnight camping trips. Four months later an area middle school hired him, and he began planning a new camping trip. Ronald Guinto was an English
The creator of the Minute Physics You Tube videos took a break from science to discuss the situation in Venezuela. It turns out he works with an illustrator in Venezuela and the two have been exchanging emails about the situation
Rep. Adam Schiff (D) is running for re-election, hoping to keep his job representing California’s 28th District. This June he’ll be facing two challengers, one a fellow Democrat and the other an Independent. Democrat Sal Genovese has attempted to take
Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly is picking up support in California’s Governor election and says it is starting to change the dynamic of the race. The race for Governor of California has its primary on June 3rd. The two candidates with
Venture capital firms invested $4.7 billion dollars in Silicon Valley technology firms during the first three months of 2014, the highest quarterly total since the year 2000. The San Jose Mercury News reports the investment in Silicon Valley represented about
Progressive leaders on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, along with members of SEIU, are demanding an end to a tax break which has revitalized a portion of the city. At the center of the conflict is Twitter, which agreed not
Nissan announced Wednesday that it will be significantly expanding a program that provides free charging stations for new buyers of its Leaf electrical vehicle. Nissan is not building a new network of charging stations, rather it is partnering with several
Brad Cohen is the current leader of one of the nation’s oldest andlargest fraternities. SAE has 240 chapters nationwide with over 14,000members. Last month Cohen announced an abrupt end to one of the bestknown fraternity traditions, the pledge process prior
During a speech marking the one year anniversary of the day he was elected President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro said he saw this week’s lunar eclipse as a “socialist moon.” Maduro narrowly defeated Enrique Capriles-Radonski to succeed Hugo Chavez after
Elizabeth Warren has a forthcoming autobiography in which she describes the difficulties she faced in the 2012 election after bloggers began questioning her Native American heritage. Politico, which scored an advance copy of the book, reports that Warren was “hurt”
Yesterday I wrote a response to the claim advanced by CNN’s Peter Bergen that right-wing attacks had killed more people since 9/11 than jihadists. Before publishing the story I sent New America Foundation, where Bergen works as a Director and
Governor Chris Christie is down but not out. That’s the conclusion of a poll published Tuesday by McClatchy. The new poll results show Governor Christie is not the candidate he once was. In a hypothetical 2016 match-up with Hillary Clinton
Left-wing columnist and professor Paul Krugman has a new job by City University of New York. The university is paying him $225,000 a year to teach on the subject of income inequality. Gawker reports that CUNY offered Krugman $225,000 a
Two registered sex offenders have been arrested in connection with the deaths of four women in Orange County, California. Franc Cano, 27, and Steven Dean Gordon, 45, were arrested Friday in Anaheim. The LA Times reports both men were sex
On the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen has published a story claiming right-wing extremists have killed more Americans than have jihadists since 9/11. Bergen writes “According to a count by the New America
The NSA has been ordered to report major software bugs to developers so they can be fixed, but it still has leeway to exploit them first in some cases. Last week the announcement of the Heartbleed bug created a panic,
Freedom Communications, owner of the Orange County Register, is launching a new daily newspaper in Los Angeles. The new daily’s publisher, Aaron Kushner, tells the OC Register, “We are going to bring our fabulous brand of local journalism and political
Jim Costa is running for his sixth term as a U.S. Congressman representing parts of California’s Central Valley. This year, four Republicans and one Democrat have stepped forward to challenge him. Costa currently represents California’s 16th district, which includes the
The White House has been concurrently running two campaigns dealing with wages. The first is an effort to raise the minimum wage. There’s a dedicated page on the White House site for that effort headlined “Raise the Wage.” The White
