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Millions of Californians are still reeling from the economic downturn of the last several years. While the economy continues to recover, people are looking to their elected officials for leadership and purpose. Elected officials have a responsibility to positively impact

California’s Latino Legislative Caucus will continue its push to reinstitute affirmative action at the state’s universities even though the University of California admitted a record number of Hispanics this year and, for the first time, more Hispanics than whites. Hispanics

Arcade Fire capped this year’s Coachella music festival on a political note, calling gay marriage a “human rights issue” and blasting cultural conformity. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival crowd may not have been paying close attention, according to

California Democratic State Sen. Mark Leno took his minimum wage hike argument to the San Francisco Chronicle, using generic studies and a single conservative to convince readers that a state-wide hike would help reduce the growing income gap. Leno goes

As I drove back from Mass at my community’s Roman Catholic Church on Easter Sunday, I felt uplifted by my Pastor’s message that it is a day for Catholics and other Christians to be grateful and to renew one’s faith.

Easter morning brought devastation to a Palmdale family when a 16-year-old girl was killed by her allegedly drunk neighbor who drove his SUV through her bedroom wall. Although early reports said that Giselle Mendoza was killed upon impact, a subsequent

Jim Buss, who runs the basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers, said he would step down from his post if the Lakers are not competitive in three to four years. The Lakers finished with the worst record since the

HONOLULU (AP) — Officials say a 16-year-old boy is “lucky to be alive” and unharmed after flying from California to Hawaii stowed away in a plane’s wheel well, surviving cold temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen. “Doesn’t

At a 2 p.m. press conference in Beverly Hills Monday, Jeff Herman, the lawyer representing the 31-year-old man accusing X-Men director Bryan Singer of raping him as a teen, will announce three more lawsuits. CBS LA reports that the three

Tesla Motors mined middle class taxpayers for a $495 million loan to build a subsidized car in California for uber-wealthy elitists to thumb their noses from the car-pool lane at the peasants in the low class lanes. Now they want

Scandal happens.  Larry Craig, Anthony Weiner, Trey Radel, Vance McAllister–and on and on and on. We know what happens to them, but what happens to the 20-30-something staffers who wake up one morning, suddenly out of a job? When the

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a 16-year-old Southern California girl asleep in her bed has died after a driver accused of being drunk crashed his SUV into her home. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says that 20-year-old Roberto

A Northern California man (right) survived the avalanche on Mount Everest last Friday that killed at least 13 people.  Contractor Jon Reiter told the Santa Rose Press Democrat that his Sherpa guide saved his life when his first instinct was

More bizarre facts about California State Sen. Leland Yee are coming to light, and they range from receiving the severed head of a pig several years ago, to allegedly supporting or creating laws to benefit special interests who supplied him with

California Obamacare enrollees are struggling to find doctors who accept their newly purchased health insurance plans. UCSF Dr. Kevin Grumbach calls the phenomenon “medical homelessness.” CBS San Francisco says that many of the health care clinics for low-income individuals that

According to the Contra Costa Times, a new California state law that was written to protect students from teachers’ sexual misconduct had a brief loophole that allowed a teacher who was fired for alleged child sex abuse to be hired

The New York Times reports that Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz, a prolific Wikipedia editor and scholar of 18th-century British literature, died tragically earlier this month after injuries sustained in a rock climbing accident in California’s Joshua Tree National Park: The bulk of

Democratic Congressman Mike Honda, (D-CA), from the high-tech 17th congressional district in Silicon Valley, has a rather curious place for his campaign headquarters, the San Francisco Chronicle reports: inside the headquarters of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521.  That address, 2302 Zanker Road, San

There is good news for some drought-stricken California farmers as a result of recent rain and snow that the state experienced: on Friday, the Associated Press reports, the Department of Water Resources said it will step up the amount of

Huy Fong Foods, the maker of Sriracha Hot Sauce, received backing from the GOP in the battle the saucemaker is having with the city of Irwindale, CA. The Republican Party of Los Angeles County (RPLAC) issued a statement announcing its unanimously-supported

The LA Times just gave the anti-Koch brothers’ left a new link to send like-minded souls. The newspaper is covering the battle against rules that give solar energy an economic boost in the battle against traditional power sources. It’s hardly

The attorney representing alleged Chinatown gang boss Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow says that the FBI entrapped his client, and “wined and dined” him using “millions of dollars, liquor and cigarettes seized in other cases,” the Associated Press reports. Chow was indicted

More than two-thirds of the 63 pardons issued by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday were for drug-related crimes, including “selling, transporting or manufacturing” marijuana, the Sacramento Bee reports. The pardons came on Apr. 18, just two days ahead of

On the heels of one of the worst droughts the state has ever experienced, California is bracing for another big challenge as summer approaches: wildfires. Thus far in 2014, the Wall Street Journal reports, fires have been breaking out in California

San Diego’s SPAWAR, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, has brought economic prosperity and technological innovation to the local and national economy. But sequester cuts may mean sharp cutbacks for SPAWAR–and consequently damaging ripple effects to local economies and community