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.
Congressman Ed Royce was first elected in 1992 in one of California’s most conservative House seats. Twenty-two years later, the affable and influential Royce, now Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, still represents a reliably GOP House seat, but the district
Vice President Joe Biden travelled to to Cal State Bakersfield on Tuesday to stump for Democrats Alex Padilla and Amanda Renteria in their races for secretary of state and 21st congressional district, respectively. According to the Fresno Bee, Biden used
Apple Inc.’s (APPL) introduction of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus has generated all-time record interest, with over 1.9 billion Google search results. Sales, according to Forbes, are at 20 million units, and Apple is reported to have parts for 200
On Monday, Governor Jerry Brown threw his political weight behind one of his former aides, Libby Schaaf, who is running against incumbent Democratic Mayor of Oakland Jean Quan. Brown, who served as mayor of Oakland himself from 1999 to 2007,
“No one in America should be working 40 hours a week and living below the poverty level–no one.” So said Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday at a roundtable discussion about the minimum wage with Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti,
SANTA MONICA, California — President Barack Obama will visit a start-up incubator called Cross Campus on Thursday as part of his latest fundraising trip to Southern California. Obama will use the trip to Cross Campus, one of several such facilities
California Democrats and public school advocates are eyeing the possibility of extending tax increases that were temporarily set into place in 2012, reports the Sacramento Bee. Proposition 30, which has been estimated to have reaped over $13 billion for the
The 43-year-old man that was assaulted on Friday at an Angel Stadium parking lot in Anaheim has now been identified as a former LAPD officer. Breitbart News reported on Tuesday, that the Huntington Beach man was in critical condition on
Gov. Jerry Brown says that he returned $9,000 in campaign contributions from six Pacific Gas and Electric employees in July because of the utility’s close ties with state regulators. The Sacramento Bee reported that the California Public Utilities Commission and PG&E
The California drought is causing starving bears to be more aggressive than ever around Lake Tahoe, breaking into buildings to search for food, according to FOX40. The food that bears normally eat in the wild has dried up to such
Attack and defensive ads litter the airwaves in San Diego’s hotly contested 52nd Congressional District that pits freshman Democrat incumbent Scott Peters against GOP establishment-backed, gay Republican Carl DeMaio. As both sides fight for the coveted independent and centrist voting
Jack Treese, 68, passed away on Oct 1, 2014 in Santa Rosa Valley. After battling lung cancer for six months, Jack passed peacefully, surrounded by his family. Jack was born on October 5, 1945 and grew up in Titusville, Florida.
Author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who was sentenced late last month to five years’ probation and eight months of community service for violating federal campaign finance laws, revealed to Breitbart News that he will be documenting and broadcasting his court-ordered
SAN JOSE, California — In one of the rare California congressional debates to receive national attention, Democratic congressional candidate Ro Khanna fired shots at his incumbent rival, Rep. Mike Honda, leaving Honda on the defensive the entire evening, yet holding
SAN DIEGO — Mayor Kevin Faulconer has cut one of the city’s key perks: luxury stadium boxes. The boxes have been used by those in city government, most notably members of the city council, to reward members of the community.
At the Los Angeles Auto Show and San Francisco Show next month, there will be lots of focus on the commercial roll-out of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. Las May, California joined Oregon and six east coast states, which together
LOS ANGELES — Supporters of Democrat Ben Allen are enlisting the help of unlikely allies in their effort to help him defeat Sandra Fluke for California’s open 26th district State Senate seat: Republican voters. Mailers from Allen’s campaign began arriving
According to The Hill, gay Republican candidate Carl DeMaio is getting big-time support from Speaker John Boehner. Despite opposition from some conservative groups, Boehener is visiting California this week to raise cash for DeMaio, who joins Massachusetts’s Richard Tisei as
A couple who just got engaged aboard a hot-air balloon near Cardiff-by-the-Sea on Sunday had to be rescued by surfers when the balloon started drifting out to sea, according to FOX5 San Diego. The balloon was gliding over homes near the
The race for one solidly Democrat state Senate seat in Fresno, California could prove crucial for Republicans looking to break a Democrat supermajority in the chamber. Republican incumbent Andy Vidak, a local farmer elected to the seat last year in
An unidentified man was in critical condition on Sunday after he was attacked and severely beaten by three men in the parking lot of Angel Stadium. The incident occurred after Friday night’s playoff game between the Angels of Anaheim and
Vice President Joe Biden is almost certainly set to infuriate Los Angeles drivers when he attends fundraisers in the city on Monday and Tuesday during peak commute times. According to NBC Los Angeles, Biden will attend a $2,500-per-plate Democratic Congressional
Ro Khanna will debate fellow Democrat and incumbent Rep. Mike Honda on Monday evening in what has been deemed one of the Golden State’s most bizarre and fiery political races to date. The Dem vs. Dem face-off will be the
Much to the chagrin of many growers, the number of giant pumpkins competing this weekend at the Giant Pumpkin Festival in Elk Grove has diminished because of the drought. Pumpkin growing requires plenty of water and some participants in the
For the first two years after Meg Whitman became the crisis CEO at Hewlett-Packard (HP) in late 2011, she had tofight off investor pressure constantly to break-up the company by spinning off its consumer-driven personal computer and printer businesses to
