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.
According to a study by real estate listing site Redfin, reported at real-estate blog Curbed LA, a middle-class household in Los Angeles can only afford 12 percent of available housing stock. But fear not–the wealthy who can afford the other
Kara Bosworth, who played alongside Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Rene Russo, and Morgan Freeman in the 1995 Ebola virus-themed drama-horror film Outbreak, expressed her shock and fear upon discovering the first Ebola patient in the United States is located “just down the
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz published what is purported to be PIMCO founder Bill Gross’s letter to the staff as he jumped ship on the morning of September 26 to avoid being terminated for his supposed arrogant and demeaning treatment of
WIRED has been around, in print and online form, since 1993. In Internet years, that’s about 110, and in terms of publishing survival, it’s nearly miraculous, so one supposes it’s learned a few things along the way. Now, the tech/culture publication wants
State Sen. Ben Hueso is still projected to win re-election to the 40th State Senate district despite an August arrest for DUI, political analysts told the San Diego Union-Tribune this week. Hueso also faces a lawsuit from political activists, who
The differences and similarities between CA Governor Jerry Brown and his GOP opponent, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Neel Kashkari, can be summarized in this brief run-down of their public policy stances, as elucidated by the Orange County Register: Where they agree: Both
Three beaches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, north of Lompoc in Santa Barbara County in Central California, have been closed in the wake of a great white shark attack on a surfer on Thursday, Oct. 2. The surfer, who sustained
The California State Insurance Department and Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) both agreed on October 3 to approve a 4.2% average increase for individual care premiums under Covered California, the state’s version of Obamacare. Yet for the first time,
Conservatives are applauding Bill Maher today, after he was falsely accused of racism by Hollywood’s Ben Affleck during a debate on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher’s sin, along with guest Sam Harris, was to point out–correctly–that radical Islam
Newly obtained surveillance video documents three men attacking and killing a transgender woman in what police now believe is an East Hollywood robbery gone bad. The transgender individual was walking down the street early Thursday morning when the three men
After the passage of numerous new control laws at the state and city level during the last 18 months, Los Angeles “is on course to end the year with an increase in violent crime.” Here are some of the new
The President of the Private Practice Doctors organization has charged that the U.S. government’s lack of urgency in border and flight security, coupled with West Africa’s inability to properly screen people with fevers, undermines protocols and puts Americans in danger
In what will be a devastating blow to California public employee unions, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein ruled in the Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy of the City of Stockton that pensions managed by the California Public Employee Retirement System, known
Cases of the sometimes-deadly Enterovirus D68 (EV D68) in California children have begun multiplying following exponential numbers of cases nationwide. Some Enterovirus cases have been connected to paralysis in patients. The original source of the rising number of EV D68
Lyvette Crespo, who shot and killed her husband Daniel Crespo, Mayor of Bell Gardens, California, Tuesday afternoon, has hired a lawyer who communicated that Mrs. Crespo fired in defense of the couple’s 19-year-old son. The son reportedly intervened when the
Tech and car enthusiast circles are buzzing with fresh speculation after Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, tweeted out an invitation to a special October 9 press event where the company will unveil what looks to be a
Local California agencies say they are ready to handle Ebola should the Golden State fall victim to the deadly hemorrhagic disease. “It would not be surprising to eventually see a case here because of our location… and the many people
The dictionary defines nepotism as, “the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.” It perhaps should come to no surprise to anyone even remotely aware of the ethical scandals permeating
This week, the European Union (EU) Competition Commission approved Facebook’s $19.5 billion acquisition of WhatsApp based on a finding that the two companies’ business models assure that they are “not close competitors.” The ruling clears the last regulatory hurdle for Facebook to
Anger Management star Charlie Sheen is being investigated for assault by the Los Angeles Police Department for allegedly pulling a knife on a dental technician in a rock cocaine-fueled rage. If charged, Sheen could face charges of battery and felony
Triple digit temperatures are forecast for southern California’s first October weekend, but San Gabriel Valley region residents need not melt, as local water park Raging Waters has extended their summer season for one more weekend. Capitalizing on sustained high temperatures
On Wednesday police were summoned to Donald Sterling’s Beverly Hills home to investigate a possible burglary only to find that the suspect was no other than V. Stiviano. In case anyone has been in a coma for the last six
NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, which monitor changes in the earth’s gravitational field, have been used to measure changes in groundwater in California and the western U.S. from the edge of space–and the results, showing massive depletion over
SANTA MONICA — A controversial company that pays tenants of rent-controlled apartments to move out so that landlords can raise rents is in local headlines after it paid students to hold an advertising banner during a recent high school football
A federal bankruptcy judge’s ruling in the Stockton bankruptcy case Wednesday may trigger more municipal bankruptcies in California and stoke benefit changes at the bargaining table, according to some of the nation’s leading pension watchdogs. The decision, by Judge Christopher
