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.

Inmates at two Los Angeles-area jails have allegedly been subjected to violent beatings and abuse by prison guards for at least four years, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. FBI Special Agent David Dahle said that inmates at

Donald Sterling will reportedly sue the NBA for $1 billion a day after his wife reportedly accepted a deal to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion. NBC first reported that Sterling may sue for

Republican Congressional candidate Vanila Singh appears to be receiving help from an unlikely source: Democrats. Working for Us PAC has been spending its resources on both promoting Singh and attacking her Democratic rival Ro Khanna in the race for Democratic

The LA Times reports that Sony Pictures Imageworks, the studio’s visual effects powerhouse behind “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” and Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” just dropped a bomb on its 270 Culver City employees with the news that the 20-year-old

James Taylor wants to pass the hat around–again– for President Barack Obama. The veteran troubadour who started campaigning for then-Sen. Obama back in 2008, is using an upcoming concert to raise funds for Obama’s Organizing for America group. Anyone who

Los Angeles Times sports writer Bill Plaschke is scratching his head, wondering how the woefully mediocre Los Angeles Clippers managed to garner a staggering $2 billion dollar offer from former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer. According to the Times, the deal

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti praised Barack Obama for his generosity toward Los Angeles–using other people’s money–on Thursday. Garcetti credited Obama’s involvement for the federal government’s approval of the $1 billion plan to turn the concrete Los Angeles River into

Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are granting $120 million to public schools in San Francisco’s Bay Area to improve the quality of public education in the world’s technology capital, according to Business Insider. The announcement arrives just four

AB 1894, a California bill that aimed to regulate medical marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol, was rejected by the state Assembly on Thursday in a 26-31 vote, according to a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune. The bill

Several weeks before Elliot Rodger killed three people with a knife and three people with a gun, police followed up on a tip from his mother and interviewed him at his apartment. However, they did not check the massive California

The Los Angeles Times has claimed that Huy Fong Foods, the maker of Sriracha hot sauce, and Siracha Chief Executive David Tran, were convinced to stay in California as a result of Governor Jerry Brown’s intercession. The city of Irwindale filed a public

Uber not only benefits those who need a ride somewhere at a competitive price, it also benefits drivers who can earn several times more than drivers for traditional cab services. Uber has not released average wages for their drivers in

Two years ago, in California’s 7th congressional district–located east and south of Sacramento–incumbent Republican Dan Lungren lost to Democrat physician Ami Bera by 5,696 votes. In 2012, President Barack Obama also swept this state by 21 points. Since then, Rep.

Google released a report on Wednesday outlining the demographic information about their employees, called “Getting to work on diversity at Google.” According to the report, 70% of Google’s employees are male, and 61% are white. Asian-Americans make up 30% of

Former Congressman Joe Baca has picked up some opposition from liberal environmental and women’s groups as he tries to win the primary for the 31st congressional district. Baca is running against two other Democrats and three Republicans to represent California’s

For the second time in two years, California lawmakers have shot down a bill that would yield greater transparency by requiring food distributors who sell in California to label foods that contain Genetically Modified Organisms. So far over 60 countries

Smashed computer screens, cut computer cords and stolen gas gift cards were among the campaign office damages reported to police by California congressional candidate Carl DeMaio’s campaign staff around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to ABC 10 News. Campaign staff

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will reportedly buy the Los Angeles Clippers from Donald and Shelly Sterling for $2 billion. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported Ballmer “won a frenetic bidding war” to buy the team for record-setting price

More than 50,000 marijuana plants, worth $201 million, were found growing in California’s Los Padres National Forest, reports the Los Angeles Times. Ventura County Sheriff’s Dept. Capt. Don Aguilar said in the report that “the operation is one of the largest

Mary Meeker, long a mainstay at Morgan Stanley, now a partner at the venture-capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is one of the most important Internet analysts in America today. Which is to say, she’s one of the
A California bill that would have banned fracking, pending a state-ordered study deeming the practice safe, was defeated in the state Senate on Wednesday by a narrow two-vote margin. SB 1132, authored by Democratic state senators Mark Leno and Holly

On June 3, voters in California’s northern counties will have the opportunity to take their intention to form the nation’s 51st state, “Jefferson,” one step closer to reality. Voters in Del Norte and Tehama counties–with a population of roughly 91,000

On May 29, Salon magazine published a profile piece on Richard Martinez, father of Christopher Michael-Martinez, asserting that the elder Martinez “should scare the sh*t out of the NRA.” Martinez’s son was among the three persons Elliot Rodger shot to

On the floor of the House Wednesday, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs featured a dialogue between Chairman Jeff Miller and Dr. Thomas Lynch, assistant deputy undersecretary for health for clinical operations at the Veterans Health Administration. Another shocking piece of