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.

Election officials began sending about 1.4 million snail mail ballots to California’s registered voters on Monday, as the state gears up for its June 3 primary. The by-mail voting will kick off statewide races for almost every conceivable California office,

A parody of Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film Saving Private Ryan has hit the streets of Los Angeles just in time for President Barack Obama’s planned Wednesday visit to the city, the Washington Free Beacon reports. Obama is visiting this week to

The majority of UCLA students running for undergraduate student government officer positions–though none from the inclusive, centrist “Bruins United” coalition–have signed a pledge drafted by radical groups and several ethnic organizations promising never to travel to Israel on student trips sponsored

Uber’s latest marketing ploy to attract Lyft drivers has reached Facebook. The competition between both San Francisco-based transportation companies has Uber offering Lyft drivers $500 for taking just one trip on UberX, plus a guaranteed $35/hour through June 30. (see

Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria is breaking into politics. On Monday, the actress launched the Latino Victory Project, a new political action committee aimed at electing more Latino candidates to state office. According to Southern California Public Radio’s KPCC, Longoria teamed

As early voting starts in the race to replace retiring Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), singer Alanis Morissette has cut a campaign song for independent candidate Marianne Williamson. The tune Today brims with the word “revolution” as well as the brand

A 17-month-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was bitten three times by a baby rattlesnake in San Diego County. The bites were discovered by his mother after his grandmother heard the toddler’s cries while he was playing outside

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health has fined Tesla motors a total of $89,000 for seven safety violations at the Fremont production facility. Though a final report on the decision may not be available for weeks, the outcome

Two California shootings over the weekend, one in San Francisco and the other in San Diego County, seem to have one common denominator: alcohol. Both victims were allegedly inebriated at the time of the shootings. The first shooting, which occurred

Just like the media made sure sitting Democrat Congressman Bennie Thompson paid no political price for calling Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom,” so too will the media give sitting Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA) a pass for posting

The California legislature is considering a bill introduced by Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) that would test out taxing motorists for every mile they drive, according to CBS Los Angeles. It’s called the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. The proposed voluntary program–for

A controversial assignment given to eighth-grade students in the Rialto Unified School District in San Bernadino County that asked them to evaluate whether the Holocaust actually happened or was a myth created for “political and monetary gain was designed in a

The California State Assembly passed a bill Monday nearly unanimously that would prevent state agencies from selling the Confederate flag “or any similar image.” The bill, AB 2444, was sponsored by Assemblyman Isadore Hall (D-Compton), who was offended to learn from

At 12:18 a.m. on May 4th Sacramento police received “a burglary in progress” call and arrived on the scene two minutes later to find two suspects dead “inside the home.” According to the Sacramento Bee, the home is in North Sacramento

A woman has reportedly gone into labor in a pickup truck on San Diego’s I-805 highway after just 26 weeks–13 weeks prematurely–according to local ABC News affiliate 10News.com. The woman was a passenger in the truck which suffered a

UCLA is, for a fourth time, revisiting the idea of requiring a diversity class–racial, cultural, gender or religious diversity–as part of its core curriculum required for graduation, following three failed attempts and mounting criticism from both students and faculty members,

Jeff Herman, a high-profile sexual assault attorney, held a press conference on Monday afternoon in Los Angeles to outline the latest complaint filed against famed Hollywood director Bryan Singer on behalf of John Doe No. 117, a British teen whom

On Monday morning, a group of roughly 50 Americans from the Morgan Hill Patriots stood silently at attention holding tall American flags outside Live Oaks High School in Morgan Hill, CA to honor America’s commitment to free speech. The rally

Vietnamese residents of Westminster, CA marched and chanted in remembrance of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The Orange County Register reports that residents of the heavily Vietnamese area known as Little Saigon hold the march and rally

If you were the San Francisco Chronicle, and the supposed voice of news for a city that leans heavily Democratic, and you learned that one of your favorite Democratic politicians was holding a fundraiser at a venue that calls itself “the

Incumbent Silicon Valley Democrat congressman Mike Honda will go head-to-head in a debate with opponent and fellow Democrat Ro Khanna, if the two are the last men standing after the June 3 primary election. Honda, who recently compared Japanese internment camps

Meet Mink, the 3D desktop cosmetics printer that might just revolutionize the makeup industry. Mink aims to offer an intersection between beauty and affordability by literally enabling users to bring colors from both the web and the real world to

The Chronicle is reporting that despite the brouhaha after the 2012 fire at Chevron’s Richmond plant, when 15,000 people experienced breathing problems and wound up at hospitals, the millions of dollars spent to ensure better safety have been used by

Due to a security lapse, a giant Marin County water tank containing 900,000 gallons of water and serving 61,000 residents was emptied because officials did not know whether or not the container had been contaminated. According to the San Francisco

The Associated Press reported Monday that Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast. There was no comment about whether the