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.

A new survey of 1,000 California residents conducted by California Forward indicates that the “overwhelming” majority of Californians are concerned by the recent historically low voter turnout in statewide primary elections, but are “unsure of the solution.” California Forward, a

Covering for California governor Jerry Brown, the California legislature has allotted $250 million gleaned from “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas fees on businesses to make it look as though Brown’s bullet train is still a viable idea. But as Dan Walters notes

Hillary Clinton, at one time in her life, sought to do “all we can to strengthen traditional marriages,” according to a recently republished 1996 interview she had with the San Francisco Chronicle — which was then called the San Francisco Examiner.

Vox.com, Ezra Klein’s new “explainer” website, explains that the IRS scandal was all about budget cuts–not corruption: The core issue is that the IRS needs to figure out which nonprofit groups that file as 501(c)4s for tax purposes are eligible…But

The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen in San Francisco has taken two home-cooking classics to a gargantuan level with their new creation: the giant grilled cheese cake. “It’s about 32 sandwiches, made with Tillamook Monterey Jack and Medium Cheddar. We build
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After Yahoo revealed that only 6% of its employees are black and Hispanic and women are outnumbered by the men who represent 85% of its tech workers and 77% of its leadership, the company released a defiant and unapologetic statement:

California’s water problems continue to mount. On Tuesday, a report from the Water Resources Control Board showed that Californians are not cutting their water use to comply with statewide conservation efforts. Governor Jerry Brown had requested a 20 percent decrease

San Francisco city officials, realtors, and tenant activists are colliding in their efforts to hold down increasing housing prices and provide more affordable housing. SFGate reports that Supervisor Eric Mar on Tuesday, with the support of tenant activists, proposed a

Illegal aliens from around the globe have been sneaking into the U.S. through the southern border. Recently the suspected head of a human smuggling ring was captured at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Two other men suspected as part

A wanted Mexican national on the run since 2010 was arrested and deported after federal authorities found him working as a night auditor at a hotel in Antioch, California. His alleged crime: murdering a man who tried to pay off

San Marino’s dog poop slinging Mayor resigned Tuesday in embarrassment and backlash from the community for tossing dog feces onto a neighbor’s yard. Surveillance of Mayor Dennis Kneier tossing the bag of excrement onto neighbor Phillip Lao’s lawn on June

Berlin has banned the logo of the California-based Hells Angels from its city, viewing aspects of it “as symbols of a criminal organization.” The first Hells Angels charter was outlawed in Hamburg in 1983, but the move to ban the

Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget, which passed a few days ago, reminded me of the old adage that one lie leads to another. All of his previous budgets have been built on crafty fabrications, faulty assumptions and deceptive gimmicks that

The next president pro tem of the California state Senate will be Democratic state Sen. Kevin de León of Los Angeles, who was elected Monday. De León, 47, a Democrat, asserted that one of his highest priorities will be to

The battle between Idaho Republican Congressman Raúl R. Labrador and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy to replace Eric Cantor as House majority leader features two wholly different strategies. Labrador is working the media, according to analysts, in an attempt to convince voters

What police believe to be a stray bullet reportedly passed through a the second-floor chambers of U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Whitbefore it ended up lodged in a jury room at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in downtown Oakland, California. According

Thousands of California primary mail-in ballots have been invalidated after arriving too late to be counted. In Los Angeles County alone, 2,400 ballots have been declared invalid because election officials did not have the ballots in-hand by the close of

At least 45 members of a South LA gang were arrested and indicted on Tuesday by federal officials for years of committing lawless and violent acts allegedly including murder, selling drugs, and using violence and intimidation to control an area

The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles has condemned Sunday’s bloody murder of 48 Christians by the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab in the Kenyan village of Mpeketoni, calling the killings “Nazi-like.” Militant members of the jihadi al-Shabaab group spent hours

Beautiful, iridescent blue and green peacocks have been roaming a Rolling Hills Estates neighborhood for over 100 years, but according to the Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCLA), since June 2012 fifty of them have

Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California have issued a floor alert to members of the California legislature urging lawmakers to defeat all pro-life amendments to budget bills, including any that ban sex-selection abortions or require parental consent for minors to obtain

If you believe, as leftists claim to, that the terrible state of homelessness can only be cured through government intervention, what does it say about leftists who allocate money for something as frivolous as the arts while hungry children sleep

A K-9 was wounded and a pitbull shot dead during a sheriff’s search for a wanted transient on Saturday near Lake Elsinore in Western Riverside County, California. The shooting occurred while two deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department were

President Obama announced plans to create the world’s largest ocean sanctuary on Tuesday, expanding 87,000 square miles of protected ocean into 782,000 square miles of protected ocean–a nearly ninefold increase. According to Fox News, Obama is proposing an expansion of