On Wednesday, a Los Angeles City Council committee, determined to expedite the process of driving businesses out of state, endorsed a proposal raising the citywide minimum wage from its current $9 an hour to $15 an hour by 2020.
Despite the drought, Californians built the most backyard swimming pools since 2007 last year–and this year, the pace is outstripping 2014, according to industry tracking firm Construction Monitor. In 2014, over 11,000 residential swimming pools were built or rebuilt; this year’s pace will carry that number over 13,000.
A survey conducted by Langer Research Associates at the behest of ESPN and ABC News found that nearly three-quarters of respondents calling themselves avid NFL fans support the punishments the league meted out to the New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady over Deflategate.
According to a reporter in Ramallah, home of the Palestinian Authority, a Jordanian gynecologist supposedly left a cell phone in a woman’s abdomen in April when performing a Cesarean section to deliver her son, prompting a call for the Jordanian government to resign.
Now that the Austin City Council is comprised of seven women and four men, the first time in its history that the majority of members are women, the city manager’s office decided that staff interacting with the council needed some education as to how women think and act, and convened a two-hour training session on March 27 with speakers from Florida delineating how women are different from men.
State Sen. Kevin de León may have acted unethically last year, calling an organization whose proposal he was guiding through legislative committees and asking if his daughter could apply for a job there.
In Sacramento, one man has an idea of how to keep lawns green during the drought, and he’s selling that idea to those wanting to restore their verdant lawns; paint the grass green.
On Tuesday night, Miami Marlins right-fielder Giancarlo Stanton launched a first-inning rocket off of Los Angeles Dodgers starter Mike Bolsinger that traveled an estimated 475 feet as it soared out of Dodger Stadium.
The Obama administration, more interested in pleasing its LGBT supporters than in protecting the health of the general public, is proposing new rules through the FDA that would terminate the 32-year-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it was charging ITT Educational Services Inc., its chief executive officer Kevin Modany, and its chief financial officer Daniel Fitzpatrick with fraud, alleging that they hid from the company’s investors the how badly two student loan programs were performing.
LOS ANGELES — According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s biennial report, the homeless population of the city and county of Los Angeles climbed 12% in the last two years as tents, makeshift dwellings and cars used by the homeless skyrocketed by 85%.
The University of California San Diego Police Department reported on Friday that one case of rape and one case of sexual battery had occurred during the university’s Sun God Festival on May 3, according to the UCSD Guardian. That followed Monday’s news of the chairman of UCSD’s Visual Arts Department defending a class in which students were encouraged to take their final in the nude, as reported by local ABC 10.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), pontificated Tuesday about the ethics of the NFL punishing the New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady for Deflategate while ignoring the nickname of the Washington Redskins.
The American College of Physicians (ACP), the largest group of internal medicine doctors in the country, has now parroted the LGBT supporters’s line, calling for civil marriage rights for same-sex couples and opposing conversion or reparative therapy for homosexuals.
Sister Helen Prejean testified that Tsarnaev, who along with his brother Tamerlan murdered three people, including an eight-year-old boy, and the wounded of 264 others, including 17 people who lost legs, was “absolutely sincere” about expressing remorse to her over his actions.
On Saturday, the drought-stricken, water-restricted rural community of King City, California celebrated the restoration of a huge water slide, paid for by money raised by the community. The slide was retrofitted without using any city funds.
The survey, based on analyzing results from the top 100 universities as ranked by US News and World Report, found that the ratio of liberal speakers to conservatives at the top 100 universities was 6-to-1 and among the top 50 universities 9 to 1.
The city of Baltimore is looking to sports to salve the wounds the city suffered from the riots following the funeral of Freddie Gray. On Monday, the Orioles will play their first home game in front of their fans since April 26.
During his commencement address at Liberty University on Saturday, presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush blistered the Obama administration for its “use of coercive federal power” to restrict religious freedom.
On Tuesday, a bill designed to confer trade promotion authority on President Obama, known as “fast-track,” will come before the Senate. Obama and his administration have been working overtime to convince recalcitrant Democrats loyal to labor unions not to abandon him in the House and Senate and work with the GOP to defeat the bill
On Saturday, in spite of a crushing California drought, the Waterworld water park in Concord opened for its 20th season, fending off criticism of its water use by citing a new machine called The Defender, which is a regenerative media filter. The Defender will recycle the pool water in the park so that the park will use no more than the one million gallons with which it starts the season, officials claim.
According to new data compiled by researchers from Harvard and Dartmouth universities, the Social Security Administration’s actuarial projections over the last 15 years have been overly optimistic about the health of the program’s trust funds and missed the mark by over $1 trillion.
The public battle over whether California’s bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco will make a profit has pitted California High-Speed Rail Authority officials against opponents of the train, and the nebulous estimates leave the financial future of the system as murky as ever.
A steel rod supporting the 525-foot tower atop the eastern span of the Bay Bridge has failed an integrity test, prompting fears that corrosion caused its failure and thus other rods may fail for the same reason, leaving the tower at risk from an earthquake.
Barack Obama makes a habit of castigating police for their misbehavior, and by his actions, it could easily be assumed that he is disinterested in engendering any sympathy for police, even those killed in the line of duty, while he fans the flames of anti-police rage by honoring those killed by police.
