A majority of California voters support an upcoming ballot measure that would strip funding from the high speed rail project and divert it toward new water storage projects, according to a poll released Thursday.
The long time Capitol shoe shine man, who beautified the wingtips and high heels of the most powerful men and women in California, was laid off on Thursday due to budgetary cutbacks. Eddie Wright, whose business card reads “Shoe Beautician,”
This week, State Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) formally requested that Governor Jerry Brown impose a moratorium on oil trains after a Union Pacific freight train carrying grain derailed along the Feather River in Northern California last week. Yet with California the
This week’s statewide rains have made little impact in relieving California’s extreme drought. In fact, according to a new scientific study, this drought is the worst that California has experienced in 1200 years. Researchers studying tree rings concluded that “the
In an interview with Breitbart News on Thursday, University of Louisville associate professor of law and Harvard law and policy analyst Dr. Laura McNeal explained that a “multi-faceted” response is needed after a grand jury declined to indict New York
Opposition to the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) on college campuses is growing; a petition signed by over 120 faculty and staff members at the University of California calls for UAW 2865, the union chapter representing 13,000 mainly
Despite 37 years cruising ocean waters as a boat captain, Tom White had never seen a humpback whale jump like the one that leaped completely out of the water on Satruday off the coast of Dana Point, California. Captain Tom
According to Gov. Jerry Brown’s top policy aide, Brown wants to let illegal immigrants protected by Barack Obama’s new executive amnesty become eligible for state-funded Medi-Cal coverage. Nancy McFadden, speaking Wednesday at an event run by the leftist Public
An apparently antisemitic man, who thought Paris Hilton to be Jewish, has posed death and rape threats on the Instagram accounts of both the socialite heiress and her father Rick. “KILL JEWS FOR FUN,” and “I know ur Jew family
A local district attorney has taken Comedy Central host Jon Stewart to task for his comments in the wake of the Ferguson controversy, in which Stewart implied that police killed black suspects out of racial motives. San Bernadino County D.A.
California politicians are being accused of bringing personal rivalries into the fight over tuition hikes for California’s public UC and CSU systems, despite Californians’ opposition to increased taxes or increased tuition prices to maintain current funding. On Tuesday, California State
A Yuba City, California woman of Sikh descent has made history by becoming the first female hailing from her ethnic background to be elected to City Council in the United States of America. A teary-eyed Preet Didbal, 46, was sworn in
Several small demonstrations broke out Wednesday evening in San Francisco and Oakland after a grand jury in New York City decided not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner during an arrest last summer. Hundreds gathered
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feueur is seeking to shut down a pot delivery service, called Nestdrop, that he says violates a citywide measure passed last year (Proposition D). Prop D limits the delivery of medical marijuana to patients’ primary
A 30-foot Frosty the Snowman’s chances of appearing in Pleasanton have melted away. Johnny Moore, who has planted the giant balloon for years on his Christmas tree lot near the Alameda County Fairgrounds, cannot erect the balloon on his new
Sen. Barbara Boxer, desperate to implement harsher standards for greenhouse gas emissions before she loses control of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, is attempting to pass the Super Pollutants Act, a bill that would force cuts in emissions
Following the record pace of firearm background checks on Black Friday 2014, the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Mark Morford announced that gun sales had been driven by “scared white guys” who “don’t read complicated books.” According to the Chronicle columnist, who describes himself
SANTA MONICA, California — The Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to consider requiring warning labels on all gas pumps to advise motorists of the risks of climate change. Council member Kevin McKeown proposed to “direct staff to explore
The Pacific rainstorm that bore down on much of California Tuesday did little to alleviate the effects of the state’s historic drought. State water officials told the Los Angeles Times that California would need to see 150% of its average
In a surprise visit to Los Angeles Unified School District’s offices, Tuesday FBI agents seized 20 boxes of documents in response to a federal grand jury subpoena regarding possible contract fraud involving a $1.3 billion Common Core iPad technology project.
Thousands of angry drivers stewed over the actions of Ferguson-related protesters last Wednesday who shut down I-5 during the busy morning rush hour and kept throngs of commuters from their jobs. One driver, Tyree Landrum, admonished the activists, letting them
With the dust from the November election now settling, Republicans managed to pick up a handful of legislative seats, but head into the coming session almost hopelessly outnumbered by their Democrat colleagues. This year finds a large number of newly
A new “revenge porn” law took its first scalp after a Los Angeles jury convicted 36-year-old Noe Iniguez for violating the new statute which bans posting nude photographs online for the purpose of causing emotional harm. On Monday, Los Angeles
Former University of California regent Ward Connerly lashed out on Sunday at University of California, Irvine after the school held a “healing, grieving, and support” counseling session in the wake of a Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict police
Despite Southern California catching its first good rainstorm since last winter this week, the odds of this year being a torrential El Niño weather event have fallen to 58% from 80% early this spring, according to the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction
A violent Friday night riot by Ferguson protesters in San Francisco, who attempted to block Black Friday shopping, resulted in five police officers being badly injured and damaged one officer’s face so badly that he could be permanently disfigured. A
