William Bigelow

On Sunday, the Democratic-dominated state legislature in California approved the new fiscal year’s $108 billion general fund spending plan. State bill SB852 passed 55-24 in the Assembly and 25-11 in the Senate, largely along party lines. The legislature met on

A November ballot measure put up by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour has restaurant owners in the city determined that they will have to raise their prices as a result. Some

In an astonishing challenge to traditional Catholic doctrine, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, nominally Catholic, has taken to telling San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone that he should not attend the National Organization for Marriage’s June 19 march on the Supreme

Because of tension between the United States and Russia over the Russian invasion of Crimea, the storied Rocketdyne plant in Canoga Park that once built engines to take rockets to the moon may be revived, the Los Angeles Times reports. Rocketdyne,

The UC Irvine chapter of Young Americans for Liberty was unimpressed by the fact that Barack Obama gave the university’s Saturday commencement address at Angel Stadium, creating a mock “program schedule” for the event. The post read like this: Program

The Sacramento Bee reports that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, head of the Republican Governors Association, will headline a $10,000-per-person luncheon fundraising event for the group on Friday in San Francisco, accompanied by California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari.  Kashkari

California senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are suddenly realizing that the escalating crisis in Iraq is a matter of concern. The Iraqi Shiite government led by Nouri al-Maliki is under assault by al-Qaeda and Sunni forcesand is near collapse.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaking before the Commonwealth Club of California Wednesday night, triggered a minor controversy with his remarks about homosexuality.  Perry was addressing a question about the platform of the Texas Republican party that supported the possibility for

The Los Angeles Times reports that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, already besieged for his racist remarks, is now being sued by a former intern for the team.   Frank Cooper is suing the team because he says he

The Sacramento Bee writes that “unexpected revenue” is giving the Democratic governor and legislature leeway to call their spending of the funds “investing.” The Bee buries the reason for the “unexpected revenue” in the 16th paragraph: California’s fiscal turnaround is caused in

The teachers of the Los Angeles Unified School District are not satisfied with the raise offered them by the Los Angeles Unified school board, which approved pay raises for its employees on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Daily News reports.  The board

The Los Angeles Times reports that P.F. Chang’s, an Asian restaurant chain with roughly 200 franchises across the United States and abroad, may be the newest outlet targeted by hackers who stole the restaurant chain’s customers’ credit and debit card

Allegations continue to surface that a staff member for California Democratic Rep. Lois Capps attempted to help a fellow staffer escape jail time after he drove while drunk and killed a young woman. Those allegations have apparently prompted an investigation by

California Senator Dianne Feinstein is admitting that the White House has kept her at a distance after she criticized the Obama Administration for ignoring Congress when the Bowe Bergdahl deal was made.  Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,

The Sacramento Bee has tried to paint California Governor Jerry Brown as the fiscally prudent partner in his squabble with his cohorts in the state legislature over the state’s budget. The reality is that Brown’s budget calls for the state