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.

Despite the fact that every single part of California is currently facing severe, extreme, or exceptional drought for the first time in 15 years, the UC Davis and ERA Economics research team estimated on May 19 that agricultural losses for California’s Central

With just two weeks remaining until California’s June 3 primary, 33rd District congressional candidate Marianne Williamson is pulling out all the stops. Alanis Morissette performed in support of Williamson on Monday night as part of a campaign rally at the

A prominent Holocaust organization is teaching children of Holocaust survivors to do something many Jewish people did not or could not do during World War II–namely, to fight back. Children of Holocaust Survivors teaches these people the basics–how to load

The mainstream media are all agog and aghast in feigned outrage at Porterville, California mayor Cameron Hamilton’s advice to victims of bullying: that they should “grow a pair and stick up for them damn selves.” This is timeless and eminently sensible

Governor Jerry Brown told a group of scientists in a speech on Monday in Sacramento that California is the “epicenter” of global warming. Moreover, the New York Times reported, Brown affirmed that the state’s drought and the wildfires in San

The drought in California is not just hitting farmers hard; it’s threatening populations of birds of prey. Those populations are suffering through what may possible be their worst breeding year on record; a 90-95% rate of failure. Researcher Scott Thomas

One of California’s worst droughts in decades could cost the US state’s farmers $1.7 billion, a study warned, a week after alarmingly early wildfires forced tens of thousands of homeowners to evacuate. The drought could leave 14,500 workers without jobs

Macklemore got himself into some trouble recently, after photos of the rapper wearing a fake beard, hooked nose and a wig onstage at a performance in Seattle on Friday night prompted charges of anti-Semitism from fans and critics. Actor Seth

Now that San Diego’s wildfires have been contained and are cooling, according to the Los Angeles Times, Governor Jerry Brown announced on Sunday that California’s real battle is with global warming. Appearing on an ABC Sunday morning show, Brown asserted that

Hollywood’s diversity problem doesn’t just impact the faces we see on screens large and small. It’s mirrored in the fact that very few films or TV shows are helmed by people of color. It’s a stain on the industry’s oh,

A Native American tribe blocked the use of iconic author Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) as the name for a Lake Tahoe cove for the second time in three years. According to Fox News, the Washoe Tribe of California and

The blow-back from Stanford University‘s May 6 decision to become the first major university endowment to divest of the stocks of coal-mining companies may hurt the general election prospects of Kentucky Democratic Senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes, who has a one-point

Gov. Jerry Brown, who is a regent in the University of California system, is jumping on the anti-coal bandwagon, saying last Thursday that the UC system should consider joining Stanford University and divest its endowment from any ties to the

A Sonoma County woman was charged on Saturday with inflicting injury on a fifth grade boy for bullying her young daughter. Delia Garcia-Bratcher is suspected of gripping the neck of the 12-year-old boy and telling him, “Don’t bully my little
The San Francisco Chronicle is whining about income disparity in San Francisco, and guess what country the Chronicle likens San Francisco to? Rwanda. Really. The Chronicle uses a standard of measuring income inequality called the Gini Coefficient, which gives an

Of more than 24 arrests and numerous citations at San Francisco’s 103rd annual Bay to Bridges Race – where nudity and general debauchery were central to the race’s “fun” theme – one 11-year-old girl who was forbidden by police to

A groundbreaking medication called Sovaldi can completely cure those infected with Hepatitis C, although the price tag has generated controversy and calls from healthcare leaders for a closer look at how pharmaceutical companies price their products, according to a report

Citing conduct detrimental to the NBA and its relationship with fans and players, the NBA on Monday started the process to force Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell his team. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has already banned Sterling

According to the Daily Bulletin, the decision by San Bernadino and Riverside county sheriffs’ departments to no longer detain illegal immigrants for the federal government without sufficient probable cause was hailed by immigration rights advocates. The departments are suspending 287(g),

Republican Elan Carr is just one of 18 candidates running to replace Rep. Henry Waxman in California’s 33rd District. He is also a Republican running in one of the most decidedly Democratic districts in the entire country. Still, in a

Cooling temperatures and ocean breezes are providing welcome relief to hot, tired California firefighters who have spent the past week fighting fires across San Diego County. San Diego residents have been expressing their thanks for the firefighters’ heroic efforts. Atop

California Chrome, who is trying to be the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978, will reportedly be allowed to wear his nasal strips in three weeks at the Belmont States. Saying “there is no longer sufficient justification to

Gay and lesbian activist groups are working hard to defeat an experienced candidate who is running for District Attorney in Sacramento–despite the fact that she herself is a lesbian with a stack of law enforcement endorsements. The reason: they want

California’s “jungle primary” system, in which the top-two vote-getters in statewide primary elections advance to the general election regardless of party affiliation, was first implemented two years ago in California’s 2012 general election. Due to the new primary structure, Rep.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA — With just two weeks left until the June 3 primary elections, Republican candidate Elan Carr and Democrats Wendy Gruel, Ted Lieu and Matt Miller–all vying for outgoing Democratic Representative Henry Waxman’s seat–took turns speaking at a pre-election