The feud between Sriracha Hot Sauce creator David Tran and the city of Irwindale came to a halt on Wednesday when the Irwindale City Council unanimously jettisoned a lawsuit and public nuisance declaration against Tran’s company Huy Fong Foods. Last
One big-city California mayor won big, and another lost. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was the winner, while San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was the loser. Garcetti got his wish: on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports, the U.S. Army Corps
According to a survey by Stateline, a website affiliated with Pew Charitable Trusts, it’s good to be a California legislator. If you’re lucky enough to have a job in the California legislature, you are the highest-paid state legislator in the
A new four-page mailer savagely attacking GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly is being funded by billionaire Charles Munger, Jr., one of the children of Charles Munger, the vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. The mailer, headlined, “An Urgent Warning from Gov. Pete
The Associated Press reports that roughly 4,000 California companies, farms, and other entities hold the majority of rights to rivers and streams and, as a result, receive free water during the severe drought now plaguing the state. These entities received
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is talking to the Army Corps of Engineers about turning the Los Angeles River, which is generally seen as a concrete line flood control channel, into a natural waterway, NBC reports. Garcetti’s billion dollar proposal,
The Los Angeles Times reports that some Republican donors who gave significant cash to GOP gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner in 2010 are eschewing donating to the GOP gubernatorial candidates in 2014 and instead donating to the campaign
The Huffington Post, in its zeal to slam GOP candidates for any faux pas that it can find, has taken GOP House candidate Tony Strickland to task because his campaign sent a robocall extolling his support of Second Amendment rights
On Saturday, University of California President Janet Napolitano made a statement about the mass shooting Friday near the UC Santa Barbara that was not only factual but flew in the face of those willing to use the massacre as fodder
The California Senate Rules Committee is stonewalling requests from the media to release the legislative calendars of its members, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Three recent requests from the newspaper for the calendars were rebuffed despite the fact that
A seven-month-old child was found with cocaine in his system after his father left loose pills that included prescription drugs and narcotics such as Ecstasy in reach of its crib. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputies descended on the Atascadero
Portland’s water system took another blow Friday when 670,000 people in the area were informed they should boil their water because the system was contaminated by E. coli bacteria. The city found the bacteria after routine inspections were performed at
A special committee for the UC system chose a UCLA economics major, Abraham (Avi) Oved, who is active in campus Jewish organizations and whose parents hail from Israel, to become one of the two student representatives on the UC regents
The disparity in the amount of cash available for gubernatorial candidates in California is staggering. Republican Neel Kashkari of Laguna Beach has collected roughly $4 million, with $1.4 million as cash in hand as of May 17. Nearly half of
The man called “Captain America” won’t be joining the American soccer team in Brazil. In a decision that rocked U.S. soccer, U.S. manager Jurgen Klinsmann left Landon Donovan, 32, off of the 23-man roster headed to World Cup, which starts
On Friday, Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers threw a not-often-seen pitch to Detroit Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter. With a seven run lead in the seventh inning, two out, and no one on base, Darvish took advantage of an 0-2
Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, who is planning to donate at least $50 million to various senatorial and governor’s races in 2014 in order to target key GOP targets, is a hypocrite of the first order. Steyer made much of his
Just call them one-hit wonders. If you’re the Oakland A’s, you can get only one hit, and somehow garner three runs and win the game. Really. The A’s capitalized on two errors from the host Tampa Bay Rays and a
On Wednesday, the California State Senate Rules Committee, embarrassed by the continuing scandals revolving around members of their beloved Democratic Party, approved three measures that would supposedly demand more ethical behavior from members of the Senate. One stipulation is that
Chelsea Clinton, who now fancies herself a motivational coach, told an audience at a conference on women and technology in Newport Beach, California, that the best way for young people to motivate themselves to change the world is to tap
California’s public school districts may be hit hard financially as state officials consider moving funds into the retirement fund for teachers. Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to pour money into the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, which would trigger schools
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled on Monday that the government’s evidence in the case against state Sen. Leland Yee must be kept secret until further notice, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Breyer is concerned that if the information is
Two Democratic Congressmen are now the first members of their party to call upon Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign. Rep. John Barrow (D-GA) released a statement saying: Unfortunately, this administration has fallen short in providing the kind of
On Monday night in Pittsburgh, Chris Davis of the Baltimore Orioles broke out of a slump in a big way with three home runs as the Orioles defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-2. Davis, who led the major leagues last year
HuffPost Live held a discussion about a current topic in employment: whether women deserve paid “menstrual leave.” Slate had already tackled the issue, with writer Katy Waldman dismissing it by saying, “… don’t offer us paid period leave. We’ll just
