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 California Senate Education Committee voted last week to put a proposition on the November 2016 ballot that would reinstate bilingual education to the state by repealing Prop. 227, which had largely eliminated bilingual education in California. Ron Unz, who

California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, who is running for governor, recently pointed out that his rival Neel Kashkari “supported the United States submitting to the Islamic, Shariah banking code in 2008 when he ran TARP.” The charge was true, but

If agents from ICM Partners want to stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel or the Hotel Bel-Air, they better be prepared with their personal credit cards. The boycott against the Sultan of Brunei for adopting Sharia Law continues to grow

On Friday, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), the ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called on Congress to have a hearing on the “offensive” and “derogatory” Redskins name. In a letter to Committee Chair Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI),

A new tool from a Silicon Valley-based athletic technology company will allow sports teams, coaches, and scouts the opportunity to measure statistics never before considered when drafting and conditioning young players, according to a report from the Silicon Valley News.

Republican Neel Kashkari is still blasting rival Assemblyman Tim Donnelly’s claim that he was involved in encouraging sharia-compliant finance–that is, banking in accordance with Islamic law–in his role overseeing the Wall Street bailout at the U.S. Treasury, and specifically through

A California ballot initiative to be voted on Nov. 4 would stymie the state’s Obamacare exchange, known officially as Covered California, by permitting the state insurance commissioner to reject health insurance rate hikes. Opponents of the measure, like advocacy group

On Friday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has said he would be open to calling for boycotts of Clippers games if Donald Sterling still owns the team next year, called on Sterling’s wife to also make a “clean break”

In the real world, where decency and accountability mean something, you will find yourself fired for a lot less than physically assaulting a co-worker. In the dual-Bizarro world of Hollywood and unions, no one is fired over a rash of

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling claims on a recording that he made racist comments to V. Stiviano because he was trying to have sex with her. “I’m talking to a girl. I’m trying to have sex with her,” Sterling

The NBA named Dick Parsons, the former Time Warner CEO and Citigroup Chairman, as the interim CEO of the Clippers on Friday. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned owner Donald Sterling for life after an audio recording surfaced in which Sterling

The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department has been forced to pull some deputies “off the street” when two Sig Sauer .40 caliber handguns were found “not firing” at the gun range. According to CBS Sacramento, the Sheriff’s department has also

A special education teacher in Clarksburg, California, has been accused of stealing medication from students at her school, some of whom she may have taught, according to a report from CBS Sacramento. Sheri Haselhuhn, 40, was a 14-year veteran teacher

The Clippers currently share space in Staples Center with the LosAngeles Lakers. But a candidate for the California Assembly thinks nowwould be a good time for the team to move south into Orange County. KarinaOnofre is running to represent the

The top strategist and political consultant for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign thinks that Republicans can win elections in California. Stuart Stevens, now a columnist for the Daily Beast website, claims that if Republicans can be more

Debate over sharia, or Islamic law, has suddenly seized California in the midst of an election year. In Beverly Hills, Hollywood A-listers are boycotting the Beverly Hills Hotel to rebuke the owner, the Sultan of Brunei, for harsh anti-gay laws

On May 8 the House Appropriations Committee endorsed a GOP proposal to withhold funding for the Obama administration’s requirement that gun stores in California and other border states file special documentation on multiple long gun sales. The proposal to withhold
Overlooking the ocean and the city of San Diego sits beautiful Fort Rosecrans Cemetery, home to 110,000 military and select family-member gravesites. Now that cemetery site is at capacity with scarce exceptions for veterans and eligible family members who wish

The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, is consistently ranked among the richest men in the world. When he last visited Los Angeles in December 2011, police halted traffic on the 405 freeway–normally one of the busiest roads in the U.S.–during

Thirteen of the eighteen candidates in the crowded race for California’s 33rd District Congressional seat will participate in an unusual online debate on Saturday, May 10, according to the Daily Breeze. The debate will be hosted by “The Young Turks,”

Americans have “lost faith” that the government can fulfill their desires, President Barack Obama told a group of wealthy donors in San Diego Thursday. “[T]the American people are on our side on the issues; they just have lost faith that

In the most recent California effort to “modernize” family convention, the state Assembly on Thursday passed AB 1951, a new bill that would allow all California parents to list themselves as “mother,” “father,” or “parent” of a child in order to

Hip-hop veteran Dr. Dre is about to get a big boost to his bank account. The rapper’s Beats Electronic company, known for its trendy headphones and music streaming, is being seriously pursued by Apple. Should the deal happen, it would