Only Bay Area Has Recovered from Great Recession in CA
Only four counties out of California’s 58 have fully recovered from the Great Recession, in the sixth year after the official economic recovery began.
Only four counties out of California’s 58 have fully recovered from the Great Recession, in the sixth year after the official economic recovery began.

In politics, as in physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So, it is not surprising that those who think that state money and university facilities should be freely appropriated for bashing Israel and stirring the

Hot-and-cold couple Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez attended a Bible study in Los Angeles Wednesday night, where onlookers said they were “lovey-dovey,” “cute,” and “smitten…” according to the New York Daily News. Bieber posted a picture of pastor Judah Smith, who

A law banning homeless people from living in their cars was struck down on Thursday by a California appeals court that ruled it “opens the door to discriminatory enforcement” against the poor and is unconstitutionally vague. According to the Los

A handsome mugshot of one of Stockton’s “most violent criminals” has gone viral internationally with over 68,000 “likes” on social media and nearly 20,000 comments such as “I wish I was his victim” and “baby ur too hot for jail.”

“The budget reflects the parameters of the rainy day fund that the legislature unanimously approved last month. No budget is perfect and no one got everything that they wanted, but with this budget, that insures stability and expands opportunity, we

This morning in San Diego, Governor Jerry Brown signed California’s new, bloated state budget. Negotiated between the Democrat Governor and Democrat leaders in the legislature, this spending plan represents the priorities of a single political party, here in our blue

Shortly before 9 p.m. on Thursday night, a surge of people arrived at the Room 5 Lounge in Hancock Park, an intimate bar and performance space on the second floor of an Italian restaurant. Friends, family, and fans packed the

An immigration rights coalition known as Drive California is urging the California DMV to ease its requirements for identification documents to obtain driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. Moreover, they insist that the process has become too expensive for most of

California’s economy may be struggling overall, but the beach communities of Los Angeles are enjoying a major boom, thanks in part to the proliferation of new startup companies in the corridor from El Segundo north to Santa Monica, nicknamed “Silicon

Police say the 39-year-old who allegedly broke in to Sandra Bullock’s home on June 8 possessed illegal guns, a “machine gun” among them. James Corbett did not have the “machine gun” with him when he broke into Bullock’s residence, but

The Los Angeles Times reports that on Thursday, the California Senate approved a bill that would restrict high school and middle school football teams’ practices both during the off-season and the regular season. The bill, AB 2127, from Assemblyman Ken

Weeks before the massive influx of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) from Mexico and Central America hit the U.S. southwestern border, California came one step closer to authorizing $9.2 million to fund undocumented students with college loans under the proposed California

“In the end, truly, Tony Gwynn’s greatest achievement was not that he was so admired or emulated, but that he was so loved,” wrote Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times. San Diego and Padres icon Tony Gwynn, affectionately known

On Thursday, June 19th, I rode every single bus in the “Big Blue Bus” system run by the City of Santa Monica, California. That’s 18 individual bus lines (a nineteenth, which serves Santa Monica College, has closed for the summer). I

Sports fans say the darndest things, from cheering on the home team to razzing the competition. Some soccer fans’ comments apparently crossed a line this week, and it could mean trouble for two World Cup countries. Both Brazil and Mexico

According to LA Weekly, the city of Los Angeles has acquired two used unmanned spy drones from Seattle. Technically, they are called Draganfly X6 drones. They are about 3 feet long, weight 3.5 pounds, and are basically helicopters with video

A teenager facing charges of graffiti vandalism “tagged” the San Diego courthouse in which he was being prosecuted. Francisco Canseco, 18, was arrested on five new felony counts of vandalism, according to the Los Angeles Times. His previous vandalism charges

Ruuxa, a 7-week-old cheetah cub and Raina, an 8-week-old Rhodesian Ridgeback pup have been bonding quite nicely at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Zookeepers say the baby feline and baby canine are spending time together at the Animal Care

San Francisco police met with business and hotel owners recently in an effort to crack down on Union Square’s bustling prostitution trade. “It’s a hot spot known around the world for shopping, but now there’s a seedy type of shopping

Republican Lesli Gooch’s campaign called for a recount on Wednesday in California’s 31st district congressional race, in which she finished a close third behind Democrat Pete Aguilar, losing by just 209 votes. According to the San Bernardino Sun, it was

Daniel Keyes, author of Flowers for Algernon, the literary work that became a classic staple in classrooms and which explores the human mind through the treatment of a mentally disabled man whose intelligence is temporarily heightened then tragically relapses resulting

A San Francisco man who stole two $29.99 watches from a Sears counter saw his life sentence for the crime upheld by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday because of California’s three-strikes law. Richard

The citizen chauffeurs of UberX and Lyft are battling insurance companies, taxicabs and limousines over whether UberX and Lyft drivers should be required to obtain permits from the airports they serve as well as carry $1 million in insurance even when they

After serving 24 years on the bench, California Supreme Court Justice Marvin H. Baxter has announced he will be retiring come January, which will leave not just one, but two, vacant seats for California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown to fill