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.

Democrat, American Independent, Green, Peace & Freedom – all of these political parties list endorsements in California’s Primary Election Sample Ballot. Missing? Endorsements from the California Republican Party (CRP). But what effect could this have on primary election results? The Sacramento

A rogue teachers union’s decision to vote on severing ties to the California Teacher’s Union (CTA) and the National Education Association (NEA) created such havoc that police intervention became necessary. On Tuesday, Mike Antonucci of Hot Air noted that the Modesto Teachers

Tasers and stun gun sales are booming in California, as they can be purchased without jumping through all the hoops that attend the purchase of a defensive firearm. According to KUSI News, San Diego, Californians have watched police use tasers

Jasmine Mitchell, daughter of the late San Francisco pornographer Artie Mitchell, is on the run from California police, who say she ran a large-scale identity theft operation and hit a police car as she was trying to evade arrest in

Hollywood superstar and power broker Steven Spielberg has recognized President Barack Obama with the USC Shoah [Holocaust] Foundation’s highest award, the “Ambassador for Humanity.” It is an odd award to present to a president who has been called “dangerously silent

Want to get a sense of the ridiculous lengths to which leftist lobbyists (led by the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU) want to go to coddle illegal alien lawbreakers? Look no further than their support of an unlawful Los

Cinco de Seis wasn’t quite as much fun as Cinco de Mayo for many of the revelers who ended up spending it in a drunk tank somewhere in Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles Times, a countywide dragnet

On May 6, Breitbart News reported that two teen burglary suspects had been shot and killed inside a North Sacramento home at approximalely 12:18 a.m. CBS News’ Sacramento affiliate now reports that the deceased burglary suspects were 14-year-old Michael Sambrano and his

An Antioch, CA couple was charged for three decades of sewer services that they never received. After finally noticing the mistake on their property tax bill, Irene and Louis Ramos contacted authorities and were reimbursed for $5,700, which included a

Many homeowners in Los Angeles are outraged with the “mansionization” of new and renovated houses by their neighbors, and are willing to fight City Hall to stop their development. According to the Los Angeles Times, these newly constructed “houses on

Apparently the NFL isn’t the only organization that is drafting people. Male students at the affluent Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach have cast aside the tradition of actually asking someone on a date in favor an NFL-style

President Obama is scheduled Wednesday to snarl Los Angeles traffic, receive another award he’s done nothing to earn, and attend a $64,000-a-plate fundraiser with people concerned about wealth inequality. The president can look forward to being greeted with “Saving Barack

Anti-poverty advocates blasted California’s Obamacare executives for prioritizing the processing of Covered California exchange applications to ramp up enrollment numbers at the expense of processing the 900,000 pending low-income Medi-Cal applicants. “People who don’t have health care are all in

Was Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson fired for his Christian views on gay marriage? That’s what Ann Killion is asking at sfgate.com, noting that Jackson’s lukewarm reaction to the coming-out of Jason Collins last year was something of

President Barack Obama is visiting California this week–and that promises to make traffic even worse than usual in Los Angeles. Drivers are being urged to avoid Century City and Bel Air, as the president’s visit will see portions of West

Legal and moral questions have risen as to what should be done about 12,000 properties–including landmarks such as the Capitol Records tower in Hollywood, the Mondrian and Standard hotels in West Hollywood, three elementary schools, and Immaculate Heart High School
Marijuana advocates and enthusiasts in California celebrated a small victory last week when AB 2500, a bill that would allow police to hand out DUIs to any driver with even a trace amount of THC in their system, was voted

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly is associating rival candidate Neel Kashkari with shariah. On Donnelly’s Facebook page, a post reads: BREAKING: Neel Kashkari supported the United States submitting to the Islamic, Shariah banking code in 2008 when he ran TARP.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to explore regulations that would screen ice cream vendors for criminal records for violations “such as molestation, sex offenses, pornography or abuse,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Because ice cream

Democrat Amanda Renteria is challenging incumbent Republican David Valadao for the right to represent California’s 21st Congressional District. Democrats are hoping her victory will be a bright spot in what is shaping up to be a tough year. Valadao, who

Tony Beard, who has served as chief sergeant-at-arms for the California Senate’s in-house law enforcement unit for 34 years, announced his retirement Tuesday amid news that he had not informed Senate leader Darrell Steinberg that one of his employees had

The California High-Speed Rail Authority has two meetings scheduled this week. These are the last procedural steps before the Board will decide whether to approve a 114-mile segment of line connecting Fresno and Bakersfield. The Authority released the final draft

President Barack Obama takes off in Air Force One this week for a fundraising tour of California that kicks off in Los Angeles and then hits San Diego and San Jose. One report states that two events on the trip

California legislators considered a new law on Tuesday that would stop state lawmakers facing criminal charges from receiving paychecks, a commonsense measure that many Californians may have already assumed was in place. Three California Democrats–Ron Calderon, Roderick Wright, and Leland

Democrat Wendy Greuel, running to succeed 20-term Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman (D), has released her first campaign ad of the 2014 primary as early voting starts ahead of the June 3 primary. The ad, according to the Greuel campaign, “highlights