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.

In February, Robin Abcarian of the Los Angeles Times mocked the Kansas state legislature for considering a Democrat’s proposal to protect parents who spank their children from investigations for child abuse. Placing the proposal alongside a measure designed to protect business

Local ABC affiliate KERO in Bakersfield reports that accused “East Side Crips” gang member John Thompson was pulled over by authorities on April 12, driving with a suspended license and a restraining order against him. An initial police search on the vehicle

The Los Angeles Times reports that Alberto Flores Ramirez, 36, of San Clemente, California, has been convicted of rape and sexual assault charges triggered in 2012 by convincing two women to undergo “spiritual cleansing” in which he rubbed raw eggs

It’s California’s latest spending rush–and this time it involves carbon. For years, the Wall Street Journal has been reporting that cap and trade’s real purpose was to create another revenue stream for politicians while dodging accountability for raising taxes. Now Senate President Darrel Steinberg is

Neel Kashkari, one of the Republican candidates for Governor of California, published a new blueprint for the state’s education system Tuesday. The focus is on making public schools in the state operate more like charter schools. Currently California ranks near

California State Assemblyman has apparently pulled his list of endorsements off his campaign website, after a Breitbart News article by Kurt Bardella earlier this week highlighted Cooley’s continued use of an endorsement by State Sen. Ron Calderon. Calderon, for whom Cooley

Conservative San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders could not get much of an answer from Mayor Ed Lee when she asked him about the city’s housing shortage, though he introduced a seven-point plan in January. She does, however, have something of

The mother of a 17-year-old teen killed April 10 in a devastating collision between a FedEx truck and a school bus has filed a negligence suit against FedEx, according to the Associated Press. Rosie Rivera, mother of Jennifer Bonilla of Los

Sacramento County supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban outdoor marijuana grow operations countywide, according to a report in the Sacramento Bee. The move comes in response to increasing public nuisance and safety concerns in the area. While enforcement of

Several disturbing reports about sexual assault and violent crime dominated headlines early this week in San Diego. Police officers are chasing down and catching several suspects. A search is still in progress for a suspect who allegedly abducted and sexually

Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Los Angeles, is determined to sell Huy Fong Foods, the makers of Sriracha Hot sauce, on the idea of moving their factory to San Fernando Valley. The saucemakers have been fighting with the city of Irwindale over

The Los Angeles Times reports California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari wants to make some major changes to the state’s educational system. He says, “We must change the status quo.” Some of those changes include: Taking the state money formerly

The California Senate has passed a bill that would require genetically modified food to be labeled as such. This flies in the face of California voters’ defeat of Proposition 37 in 2012, a bill that would have required labels on

The California Senate has passed a bill that would require genetically modified food to be labeled as such. This flies in the face of California voters’ defeat of Proposition 37 in 2012, a bill that would have required labels on

Things got ugly a couple of weeks ago among the bubbled one-percent when fading movie star George Clooney and casino billionaire Steve Wynn engaged in a war of words over President Barack Obama. Wynn said the blow up happened while

Breitbart News reported on Tuesday that former IBF boxing champ “The Dream” Kassim Ouma was in jail for allegedly assaulting a man who made multiple sexual advances toward him. According to TMZ Sports, the 35-year-old pugilist has been charged by the L.A.

Despite quitting the race for California Secretary of State, indicted State Sen. Leland Yee (D) will remain on the June 3 primary ballot–in the top position–because the state does not permit withdrawals. That, plus the strong poll numbers shown by

Azusa Pacific University, an evangelical Christian university near Los Angeles, has disinvited American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray from a forthcoming appearance, saying that it needed more time to ascertain whether, according to Murray, his visit would involve “hurting our

The mellow, “peace now,” countercultural, environmentally conscious “420” celebration deposited 10,000 pounds of garbage on what is known as Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park, leaving volunteers and park workers to clean up the mess. According to the San Francisco

The special legislative session in Sacramento this week is weighing the future of California’s rainy day fund, particularly how much of it should be used for paying down the state’s debt. When they’re considering the trade-offs between saving for the
The boomerang generation is now a middle-aged phenomenon. Thanks to the recession, an increasing number of middle-aged adults are moving home to live with their elderly parents. UCLA professor Steven Wallace tells the Los Angeles Times: “The numbers are pretty amazing.”

A Central California coffee shop that features baristas in bikinis is under fire for its racy menu that features drinks called “Get Lai’ed,” “blonde porn star,” “Sex in your mouth,” and “Screamer.” According to the Fresno Bee, Candice Eslick, a

Poor, poor, poor lucky pitiful me Born into a paradise too perfect to see Blessed with it all, but still entitled to more Too lazy to win we just didn’t keep score Told I was great just to sooth

California is one of many states that do not require photo identification for voters at polling places. The state government believes, as do many Democrats and the Obama administration, that requiring photo ID for voting is a subtle form of

For 40 years, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has ensured that the Democratic Party owned West Los Angeles. But after a tough re-election fight in 2012 and the likely prospect of remaining in the minority in the Republican-controlled House for the