A growing trend in California finds candidates eschewing party labels and running as independents. In three different statewide races, secretary of state, insurance commissioner, and superintendent of public instruction, the candidates have either rejected affiliation with the Democrats and Republicans
Donald Sterling’s lawyer has informed the NBA that Sterling will not pay the $2.5 million fine and may sue the league. According to Sports Illustrated, antitrust litigator Maxwell Blecher “has written a letter to NBA executive vice president and general
San Francisco residents John Harrington and Alex Talon filed a lawsuit against BlueShield in California state court on Wednesday, alleging the health insurer misrepresented the plans offered by the company on the state health exchange, according to a report from
Those ugly, knobby growths at the base of California’s beautiful redwood trees are actually quite valuable. So valuable that a suspected tree slashers and burl bandits have been arrested in Northern California for allegedly poaching and peddling the looted lumber
For the second time in five days, most of the candidates running for the 33rd District congressional seat traded jabs and ideas in a debate at Temple Emmanuel of Beverly Hills. This time, Green Party candidate Michael Ian Sachs was
California Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) has made it clear that he is ready, willing, and able to use the state’s embattled high-speed rail as leverage in his fight to win funding for social services and anti-poverty programs, including his
This year Californians are going to pay a steep price for their decision to lock in one-party governance in their state government. You see, Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has introduced revisions to his proposed budget for fiscal year 2014-2015
An above-ground oil main near Glendale burst early Thursday morning, sending about 10,000 gallons of crude oil spilling out into a half-mile area in Glendale and nearby Atwater Village, according to a Los Angeles Fire Department alert. Fire Captain Jamie
The release of a report titled Brown at 60 by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project shows that California leads the nation in racial segregation at schools and that segregation at both school and state levels has become widely accepted. The report,
The wife of notoriously anti-Israel human rights “expert”, terror apologist, and former United Nations official Richard Falk has assumed a new post at the UN, inciting protest and deep concern from both the United States and other organizations that stand
Dean Baquet, the new executive editor of the New York Times following the ouster of Jill Abramson, was himself ousted as editor of the Los Angeles Times in 2006–on Election Day. Baquet was reportedly removed because of his strong–and public–stance against cuts to
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Crews sopped up the remains of about 10,000 gallons of crude oil that sprayed into Los Angeles streets and onto buildings early Thursday after a high-pressure pipe burst. A geyser of crude spewed 20 feet high
The Lincoln Club of Orange County, one of the oldest, most prestigious conservative organizations in California, has issued a vote of no confidence against gubernatorial primary candidate Tim Donnelly, marking the first time in the organization’s 52-year history that a
Fires roared across at least six areas in San Diego County on Wednesday. Homes were lost, and evacuations ordered throughout the county, including residential areas, schools, and Carlsbad’s Legoland theme park. California State University San Marcos is now being evacuated
California Governor Jerry Brown, presenting his revised state budget to reporters in Los Angeles on Tuesday, warned that California my be underwater in the future–not because of his budget, but because glaciers in Antarctica will collapse and sea levels will
San Francisco’s officials do not, apparently, know how to cross the street. That’s according to a report at SFGate.com, where a simple question as to whether or not pedestrians can be ticketed for entering the crosswalk as the countdown clock begins “shockingly” elicited an incorrect
Empowered Firearms in Vista, California is the first gun store in the country to have a firearms simulator “like the police use for weapons training” which is open to the public. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, store owner LeAnne
A group of four self-proclaimed female Catholic priests from Southern California who are part of a larger, international group of 180 women who were excommunicated are reportedly defying the Catholic Church by pushing to oversee the ordination of female priests despite
