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.

The LA Times is asking whether a “co-response unit”–a unit comprised of police and psychiatrists–might have cut Elliot Rodger off at the pass three weeks before he stabbed three people to death, shot three others to death, and tried to

A Stanford political science professor was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport last week for having a hand grenade in his carry-on luggage. Gary Walter Cox had come across the WW II Mk-2 grenade while cleaning out his recently deceased

When you think sports rivalries, the Yankees/Red Sox, North Carolina/Duke and Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier roar to mind. Don’t forget the enmity between the Big Apple and Los Angeles, one which could get nastier thanks to another OT thriller Sunday night

The Contra Costa Times reports that a group of about 60 protesters representing the Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) held California’s first demonstration against what the group calls “bomb trains” that will be bringing as much as 1.3 million gallons of

L.A. Weekly, the ubiquitous guide to popular culture and urban style in Los Angeles, features a Republican wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit as part of the illustration to its cover story this week on the GOP’s candidates for governor

A decomposing body was found in a parked car at a Los Angeles shopping mall after “several days,” according to the Los Angeles Police Department and the local CBS News affiliate. A local resident, noting the smell, called police, and

A Sunday feature in the Sacramento Bee suggests–indirectly–that a bipartisan consensus may be emerging in the California State Assembly on the need for additional dams to increase the state’s water storage and fight future droughts. Currently, California is suffering one of

The Los Angeles Daily News‘ Steve Scauzillo has attacked the two GOP gubernatorial candidates, accusing them of taking the GOP to “backward” anti-environmental positions. Scauzillo slams Tim Donnelly for supporting the use of dogs to hunt bears; rips Donnelly and rival Neel

Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari is wooing voters in the June 3 primary, the Los Angeles Times reports, by asserting that he wants the Republican Party to show it is a big tent that emphasizes diversity. Speaking in Silicon Valley on Saturday at

Mistakes, Jane Fonda has made a few. The actress admitted as much over the years, most notably in her 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey regarding her infamous Vietnam War photo op. Now, the hard-left actress Fonda will try to share some of

A new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll released on Sunday morning shows that Republican moderate Neel Kashkari has finally caught up to his GOP rival, Tim Donnelly, though incumbent Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown remains far ahead of both. Voters head to

Despite evidence that big government policies have resulted in “internal devaluation,” California’s State Senate has approved a minimum wage hike that would cost California taxpayers an estimated $80 million plus over the next four years, and that’s just the start.

Google has apologized–sort of–to a Los Angeles-based Latino group after the group called the tech giant out, arguing that it is not enough that Google simply published statistics on the lack of diversity in its workforce. The group is calling

In the wake of Tim Dickinson’s article in Rolling Stone last year pronouncing Gov. Jerry Brown’s “miracle” in California comes John Nichols’s paean in The Nation, entitled: “How Jerry Brown Got Californians to Raise Their Taxes and Save Their State.” While

Gov. Jerry Brown raised eyebrows recently when he dismissed concerns about California’s tough economic environment, which has chased companies like Toyota away: “[S]mart people figure out how to make it,” he said. An increasing number of elite graduates from across

On Friday night, Breitbart News was on the scene at the 2014 Golden Trailer Awards, where hundreds of hipsters convened at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills to celebrate exceptional film marketing. Shiny black statues adorned with a gold trailer

A consortium of marijuana shops in San Jose are handing out free pot in exchange for your ballot stub or “I voted” sticker on June 3, which is election day for local races and battles for governor and secretary of

On May 30 Breitbart News reported that Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA) and about two dozen Democrats are pushing a bill ostensibly aimed at banning stalkers, domestic abusers, and the mentally defunct from buying guns. The problem with these bans is

The Los Angeles Police Department announced on Friday that they have obtained two “unmanned aerial vehicles” to add to their law enforcement arsenal. According to the Los Angeles Times, in order to avoid negative connotations, the LAPD purposely avoided calling

Silicon Valley attorney Rich Robinson is working on Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith’s (R) re-election campaign and simultaneously pushing for a “repeal” of the Second Amendment. Prior to working with Smith’s re-election, Robinson worked with Barack Obama (D), John

An audit of California’s books by the Bureau of State Audits has uncovered errors totaling $31 billion. CBS 13 reported the results of the audit Thursday. It found: $7.7 billion – Understated federal trust fund revenues and expenditures $653 million

With just a few days left until the polls open in California, the race to succeed outgoing Rep. Henry Waxman in the 33rd congressional district has gotten ugly fast. Front-running campaigns are turning to attack mailers and, in one case,

A bill that would have restricted the ability of public and private agencies from using data obtained via vehicle tracking technology — also known as a licence plate reader (LPR) — for things other than cracking down on crime failed

A week before the Brooklyn Nets signed openly-gay center Jason Collins in February of this year, then-Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson reportedly said that Collins was not welcome in his locker room. That may have been a reason why

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NBA has canceled its hearing to consider Donald Sterling’s ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, saying the team will be sold to Steve Ballmer. The league says in a statement that it has resolved its