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 suddenly reversed itself on Thursday in voting for a bill that would force cell phones to have remote “kill switches” that would let the owners disable them if they are stolen. Late last month, the bill was

Today on the House floor the release by the Bureau of Reclamation of more than 70,000 acre feet of water from dams on the American and Stanislaus rivers in Northern California was highlighted by Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA). The water

Shelly Sterling, the wife of embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, is hoping she can become the owner of the Clippers. According to the Los Angeles Times, Shelly Sterling believes the NBA’s lifetime ban on Donald Sterling does not

There have been rumblings throughout the season that Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson was on the hot seat. But when Jackson was fired on Tuesday, analysts and fans were puzzled as to why he was ultimately let go, with

While Hollywood is always willing to stand up for human rights against small countries like Brunei that don’t represent much market share, when China isn’t busy forcing women to have abortions, massacring demonstrators, or censoring Hollywood films, Hollywood seizes the

The San Diego Chargers’ stadium project point man, Mark Fabiani, is making waves over stadium plans and funding as San Diego’s leadership considers whether to get behind putting a costly $400 million taxpayer subsidy for construction of a new Chargers

Part of President Barack Obama’s current LA fundraising tour found him accepting an award Wednesday from a Holocaust organization founded by Steven Spielberg. The event stuck plenty of appropriately somber notes, but the gala kicked off with a jokes a-plenty

Left-wing Mother Jones posted an update on Thursday from URS Corp., the California engineering firm heading up the state’s pricey high-speed bullet train project, and the numbers aren’t pretty. Mother Jones political blogger Kevin Drum conceded that “most of you

President Barack Obama landed in Air Force One at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego just before noon on Thursday. Recently-elected San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, a Republican, was present to greet the president. As he disembarked, Obama

U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) blasted California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly for his recent comments accusing gubernatorial rival Neel Kashkari of association with Islamic sharia law during Kashkari’s tenure at the U.S. Treasury. “There is

The recent discovery of tainted meatballs that were

California Obamacare patients are finding it more affordable to drive to Tijuana, Mexico for health care treatment than to use their high-deductible Obamacare plans. Irma Montalvo tells USA Today seeing a Tijuana doctor only costs $15 and that she likes her

Beverly Hills has officially become the first municipality in California to prohibit fracking–the controversial technique used to extract natural gas and oil from underground rock deposits–following a unanimous vote by the Beverly Hills city council on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

President Barack Obama told donors at an exclusive Hollywood fundraiser for the Democratic Party that he needed their help to undo the “frustration” of politics in Washington. There is “an anxiety, and a sense of frustration,” the president–now in his

In accepting the “Ambassador for Humanity” award from Steven Spielberg and the USC Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama recounted his 2009 trip to the concentration camp of Buchenwald–the camp his maternal grandfather helped liberate–with Nobel

Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg praised President Barack Obama’s creation of the Atrocities Prevention Board in 2012 in awarding Obama the “Ambassador for Humanity” prize, the highest honor of the USC Shoah Foundation, in Los Angeles Wednesday evening. The Atrocities Prevention

Barack Obama received the Ambassador for Humanity award at the USC Shoah [Holocaust] Foundation gala Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, receiving accolades from Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg and reflecting on the memory of the Holocaust, while projecting a sense of

Peta Lindsay, a 27-year-old who fancied herself a presidential candidate, saw the dismissal of her attempt to grab a place on California’s 2012 presidential primary ballot upheld by a federal appellate court on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr.

President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security rejected California’s proposed design for driver’s licenses that will be awarded to illegal immigrants in 2015 because it would be nearly impossible for federal officials to distinguish the licenses from those given to

A new mobile app from an Italy-based developer will give San Francisco residents the opportunity to auction off a prime parking spot in the city to other drivers as they leave, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle

Environmentalists and members of the California Energy Commission turned against a major solar power project in Riverside County when preliminary evidence suggested the type of solar power generation planned for the site is a hazard to birds. The Palen solar project

Human error resulted in

While Californians bathe Jerry Brown with an almost 60% approval rating, Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times reported that the state is now facing a staggering $340 billion in long-term costs, which calculates to an $8,500 debt for every California resident. According to

Bill Monnet, Ken Churchill, and Ed Ring of the California Policy Center published a study on May 6, 2014 titled “Evaluating Total Unfunded Public Employee Retirement Liabilities in 20 California Counties” that determined the official published statements for unfunded employee retirement liabilities

It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s a California Congressman? Dean Cain, the star of The New Adventures of Lois & Clark, is considering a political run in the heart of Hollywood. The timing of such a move,