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.

A wildfire in the hills above Rancho Cucamonga, CA has grown to 1,000 acres in size. The wildfire, dubbed the Etiwanda fire, was first reported to authorities Wednesday morning. At the time it was believed to cover nearly 200 acres.

San Franciscans may lack affordable housing, but they have a new play-toy: the Hook-Up truck. It is nothing more than a traditional truck that gets used for sex, but the truck is called a conceptual “art” installation by its creator,

Could Democratic voters be scheming to have Republican Tim Donnelly face Jerry Brown in November’s gubernatorial election by strategically voting Donnelly onto the ballot? According to Fox and Hounds Daily Editor Joe Fox, that could be something to watch out

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is reportedly suffering from prostate cancer. “They thought he would die two years ago,” one source said of Sterling, who on Tuesday was banned for life from the NBA for his now-infamous recorded racist

The California Senate Transportation and Housing Committee passed two bills on Tuesday that would require businesses to provide baby-changing stations in men’s bathrooms, according to a report from Fox News. SB 1358, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Lois Wolk, is

Afghanistan’s notorious spy chief Haji Gulalai – his real name is Kamal Achakzai – has decided to settle down in the leafy suburbs of Los Angeles, according to the Washington Post. Gulalai (pictured, right) is reportedly living in a pink, two-story,
California’s new “jungle” primary system does not boost turnout, but does raise participation by independent voters, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) reported Thursday. According to the PPIC’s Eric McGhee, the new system, in which all candidates compete together and

The Sacramento Bee reports that the $100 million in taxpayer-funded corporate welfare Hollywood benefits from every year isn’t doing anything to keep productions in California or even stem the loss of production jobs. A new report from the nonpartisan Legislative

Los Angeles may not be able to see the annual Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show after 2016. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council approved a ban, going into effect January 1, 2017, that prohibits the circus

Jeff Herman, the Florida attorney representing Michael Egan, the 31 year-old man suing “X-Men” director Bryan Singer and three others for sexually abusing him as a teenager, says that “dozens and dozens and dozens” of other victims will be coming

California Governor Jerry Brown will be seeking to burnish his foreign policy credentials when he leads a trade and investment mission to Mexico – California’s largest export market – in July. Many Democrat operatives are beginning to whisper that Hillary

One of the critical policies of the highly successful school choice movement in America is the creation of charter schools, which are publicly financed but privately run. Dr. Robert H. Nelson, a senior fellow with The Independent Institute in Oakland,

While California is home to just over five million registered Republicans, with our state’s massive population, the GOP piece of the overall pie is just 28.6% of all voters. And that slice is diminishing: in 2002 Republicans had a 35%

The nation’s most populous state has added 356,000 residents in the past year, bringing it to a total of 38,340,000 as of January 1, 2014, according to a report released Wednesday by California’s Department of Finance. The Bay Area is the fastest-growing

On April 29th, Point Loma, California, resident Keith Groves climbed out of bed naked, retrieved his handgun, and confronted the burglar who had broken into his garage. According to ABC10 News, “Groves heard a crashing sound and then another at

Amoeba Music record store has reportedly become a one-stop shop for both music and marijuana, according to SFweekly.com. The popular San Francisco-based record store is offering medical cannabis cards via a company named Green Evaluations that is technically operating out of an office space

The Orange County Register reports that some of the black Americans who live near the sites of race riots in Los Angeles that occurred after the Rodney King verdict from twenty-two years ago feel that in the wake of L.A. Clippers

Gov. Jerry Brown is so confident that he will win reelection that he is ignoring a survey put together by the Sacramento Bee for its voter guide and refusing to answer its questions. Every other gubernatorial candidate in California has

It took 124 years, name changes from such monikers as the Atlantics, Bridegrooms, and Superbas, and a move from the East Coast to the West. But on Wednesday night, the Dodgers won their 10,000th game. And they did so on

Crazifornia: Tales From the Tarnished State author Laer Pearce describes himself as a “natural optimist.” Still, when asked by an attendee of the author’s forum at the Beverly Hills Public Library last night about what’s next for California, Mr. Pearce

The NBA is starting to resemble the Watergate era now that it is known that current Celtics scout Dan Erman was fired from the Golden State Warriors for taping private conversations by coaches and players. The Warriors termination of Erman comes

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officials say technical issues stopped all planes from departing from the Los Angeles area for more than an hour. In addition, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday its air traffic control facility had also temporarily

The public is still learning new information about the 1994 death of grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain. This week, the Seattle Police Department shared unpublished photographs and other details from the scene of the rocker’s suicide. Among the notable findings–a

When “Project Greenlight” first aired on HBO in 2001, it was Ben Affleck whose career was in trouble. After 1998’s “Armageddon” it was all downhill. Between cameos and small parts in films like “Shakespeare In Love” (1998) and “Boiler Room”