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 Los Angeles Times reports that some Republican donors who gave significant cash to GOP gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner in 2010 are eschewing donating to the GOP gubernatorial candidates in 2014 and instead donating to the campaign

The Huffington Post, in its zeal to slam GOP candidates for any faux pas that it can find, has taken GOP House candidate Tony Strickland to task because his campaign sent a robocall extolling his support of Second Amendment rights

About 60,000 immigrants, many facing deportation, worked at the nation’s system of 250 detention centers last year for $1 a day. The cheap labor, which the government says is legal, saves taxpayers millions of dollars every year. Private companies, which

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg received much media attention in 2010 when he announced his plan on Oprah to give $100 million to help Newark, New Jersey’s failing public schools. However, as observed by Dale Russakoff in the New Yorker, four years

The photos presented were taken this Memorial Day weekend in Isla Vista, near Santa Barbara, California, by Breitbart News’ Michelle Moons at the sites of Friday’s deadly rampage by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger. Memorials and vigils sprang up–some with competing messages–as
Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists funded 321 deals in the first quarter of 2014, up 9% from last year and the highest rate since the peak of 347 in 2007. Despite terrible investment returns in the past, the fastest growing area

The federal government, at the behest of radical environmentalists, has decided over the past few years that flushing fresh water out to the Pacific Ocean in a test to save a fish was a higher priority than providing that same

SANTA BARBARA, California — Death descended upon the Isla Vista community in southern California Friday night as a murderous young man reportedly played out his narcissistic plan, echoing sentiments from his disturbing manifesto. Crossing the paths of obsession and death,

Meet Navy Operations Specialist Seaman Anief Haughton, a Los Angeles native and 2011 graduate of Verbum Dei High School. Haughton is one of only four master helmsmen on the U.S.S. George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier operating from Yokusuka, Japan. Seaman

On Saturday, University of California President Janet Napolitano made a statement about the mass shooting Friday near the UC Santa Barbara that was not only factual but flew in the face of those willing to use the massacre as fodder

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Josh Beckett has pitched a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies, the first of the season for any Major League Baseball team, and the Dodgers’ first no-hitter since 1996. Beckett pitched a 6-0 shutout, giving up only

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Josh Beckett threw the first no-hitter of his career and in Major League Baseball this year on Sunday afternoon at Philadelphia in a 6-0 win over the Phillies. Beckett struck out Chase Utley looking on his

The California Senate Rules Committee is stonewalling requests from the media to release the legislative calendars of its members, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Three recent requests from the newspaper for the calendars were rebuffed despite the fact that

Ten California school teachers and an education associate are challenging the state’s law that requires all public employees to join and support a union as a condition of employment. Rebecca Friedrichs and her co-plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit, Friedrichs v. California

A seven-month-old child was found with cocaine in his system after his father left loose pills that included prescription drugs and narcotics such as Ecstasy in reach of its crib. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputies descended on the Atascadero

On May 24 Breitbart News reported that Peter Rodger–father of Santa Barbara attacker Elliot Rodger–released a statement through his attorney supporting gun control. Now Jenni Rodger, aunt of Santa Barbara attacker Elliot Rodger, has added her voice to the politicization

Santa Barbara mass murderer Elliot Rodger left a 141-page manifesto in which he revealed a hatred of women–and an obsession with the California State Lottery. Several times throughout the text, the disturbed 22-year-old recalls playing the Mega Millions and Powerball

Republican dark horse Congressional candidate and Stanford University anesthesiologist Dr. Vanila Singh has just released the second video ad of her campaign for Rep. Mike Honda’s seat in the Democrat-dominated 17th congressional district. With less than two weeks to go until

It would be quite wrong to attribute the Isla Vista killings to the work of a lone madman, a U.S. feminist author argues today in the pages of the UK Guardian. The real reason, says Jessica Valenti, is much simpler:

May 22 marked what would have been slain gay rights leader and former San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk’s 84th birthday, known as “Milk Day.” It was also the day that the United States Postal Service released a stamp commemorating Milk’s

It seems almost impossible to think that retiring Rep. Henry Waxman, a one-man liberal institution who has represented the west side of Los Angeles for forty years, could fail to be succeeded by a fellow Democrat. Yet that is precisely

Santa Barbara mass murderer Elliot Rodgers claimed that he had acted out of retribution for his rejection by women. Yet even a cursory examination of the videos and the 141-page manifesto left by the 22-year-old suggest the opposite: that he,

During a May 24 press conference on Elliot Rodger’s shooting spree in California, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said the guns Rodgers possessed “were legally purchased,” which means he went through a background check, and that he used 10-round magazines.

In an emotional statement, the father of a victim of the mass murder in Isla Vista on Friday night addressed reporters Saturday and warned families that it can happen to them too. “Our family has a message for every parent

On May 24, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown held a press conference in which he said Elliot Rodger killed six victims on Friday night, including three he stabbed and killed at “his residence” with a knife. Brown said there