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.
LOS ANGELES — 33rd District Republican congressional candidate Elan Carr released a new, 30-second television advertisement on Thursday as the countdown to November’s midterm election dropped past the 50-day mark. The ad, titled “For Yolanda,” is the first television advertisement
A survey ranking the most and least educated American cities offers a bleak picture of California; only one of the top ten educated cities is in the state, while a whopping five of the least-educated cities hail from the Golden
Everyday working class folks are taking it in the neck while the companies that lay them off are reaping huge profits and winning hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare. Is that the logline for Oliver Stone’s latest sequel,
An associate psychology professor at Stanford University is among 21 winners of this year’s prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants for her work in the study of racial bias, including profiling by police. According to the McArthur Foundation website, Jennifer L.
Back in May, on a party-line vote, Democrats on the California State Assembly Health Committee killed a bill that would have outlawed sex-selective abortions–abortions done because of the gender of the unborn child. In introducing the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, Assemblywoman Shannon
Beyonce and Jay-Z, who together have sold millions of albums, are reportedly eyeing a Beverly Hills estate that is estimated at $85 million. TMZ reported that “Jay and Bey” have made multiple visits to a 23,000 square foot mansion that
A pedicab driver was arrested early Tuesday morning in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter after being accused of driving drunk while wearing a 2-foot-long ball python around his neck. Travis Young, 27, was arrested after being spotted at around 1:30 a.m.
The small town of Weed, California was devastated by a fast-moving wildfire that erupted Monday, destroying at least 100 homes and forcing thousands in the town to be evacuated to emergency shelters. More than 1,000 firefighters were still working to
California Public Employees’ Retirement System, known as CalPERS, announced recently that it is terminating all of its investments in hedge funds after the conviction of their former CEO, Federico R. Buenrostro Jr., for hundreds of millions in fraud involving the funds. Hedge fund management has,
Although Steve Jobs is credited as the best technology innovator in the history of Silicon Valley, he was actually an art major in college. Jobs credited his creative talents as the secret sauce in building Apple Computer as the most
Freshman Congressman Scott Peters and his opponent Carl DeMaio are virtually even in a poll conducted this past week. Respondents varied, however, as to each candidate’s favorability on given issues and within certain demographics. Of the 559 likely 52nd district
Pictures have been obtained that show Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts straddling her husband Brian Lucas in the passenger’s-side seat of a vehicle, with Watts’s breasts exposed, and grinding on top of Lucas in what appears to show the couple engaging in sex
On Tuesday, Los Angeles Unified school police officials decided they would reject the military weaponry that they acquired through the federal government’s 1033 Program, which Congress passed in the early 1990s so that law-enforcement agencies could procure excess Defense Department
A new California State law, which went into effect on Tuesday, requires motorists to give at least three feet of space between their vehicles and cyclists. Drivers are complaining that they are being unfairly targeted and requesting that law enforcement
On Tuesday the King Fire threatened homes near Pollock Pines and shut down a stretch of Highway 50 in El Dorado County. As reported on Tuesday by Breitbart News, three miles north east of Pollock Pines, the King Fire which
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to spend $2.1 million over the next two years so that illegal immigrants in the city can have lawyers for fast-tracked deportation proceedings, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Over 2,000 juveniles
Suspected of robbing at least 15 banks in the past year, a man dubbed the “El Chapparito Bandit” is being sought by federal and local authorities who released a sketch of the thief on Tuesday and are offering $20,000 for
Anti-vaxxer parents living in tony communities like Santa Monica and Beverly Hills are rejecting vaccinations for their children resulting in a disturbing spike in diseases such as whooping cough and measles. Parents are filling out vaccination exemption forms called a
On Monday, Democratic State Sen. Roderick D. Wright, 62, finally said he will step down from office on Sept. 22, according to the Los Angeles Times. Wright wrote the Senate secretary, “Effective Sept. 22, 2014, I hereby resign from the
The Silicon Valley tech giants that have been engaging in widespread internet surveillance of their customers’ shopping preferences, general attitudes, and deepest life-style secrets have failed to appreciate the mounting global concern over their record on online privacy and security. Yet
227 years ago today, September 17th, 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed. On that day, the delegates met for the final time and signed the revolutionary document they had spent months crafting. As a result of their extraordinary statesmanship, this
A leftist group funded by top gay activist bundlers for Obama’s 2012 campaign coordinated both a “well planned and financed” attack against San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for his decision to speak during the March for Marriage in Washington,
The Navy has revealed the identity of the pilot still missing after two F/A-18 Hornet Jets collided in mid-air shortly after taking off from the USS Carl Vinson last Friday evening. Extensive search efforts for the 26-year-old pilot, Lt. Nathan
Sushi prices nationwide could rise dramatically in the coming months, as rice production in drought-ravaged California is expected to fall by 25% this year. According to Politico, California’s 2,500 rice growers planted just 420,000 acres of the high-quality rice used
A 23-year-old Ojai, California native has pledged not to shower for 128 days to promote water conservation during the state’s devastating drought. Cody Creighton launched what he calls his “One Day Dirtier” campaign on Instagram last week, in honor of
