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.

The Los Angeles Times reports that on March 17th, the relatively new Perry Rubinstein Gallery in Hollywood filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, leaving a slew of upset creditors and unresolved lawsuits in its wake. According to papers filed in California

Shouts were reportedly heard from outside a closed-door San Diego Opera board of directors meeting that lasted four-and-a-half hours Thursday afternoon. In an eruption of emotions, some board members exited the meeting prematurely with anger, shouting and dramatic flair. Members

On Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown of California, unused to dealing with the minority GOP faction in his state house, asked for a special session of the legislature to consider his proposal to create a rainy-day fund, the Sacramento Bee reports. Brown

The landmark Proposition 13, passed in California in 1978, may be in for some revision. A whopping 69% of respondents surveyed in a new Field Poll state that they would approve reassessing business properties after they are sold or transferred, which

With Wall Street concerned that Disney’s sports network goliath, ESPN, may be negatively impacted from increasing operating costs and competition from Fox Sports 1, Disney CEO Bob Igor unleashed a barrage of upbeat statements about it during Thursday’s investor meeting

Maybe the reason California officials have such a tough time stopping their uncontrolled spending is that they don’t know how to spell “STOP,” reports local ABC News affiliate KGO. While a city worker was painting traffic control commands on a road

The Associated Press reports that a man robbed a bank in the East Bay city of Hayward, CA wearing a t-shirt that said, “I Have Issues.” According to the AP: Hayward Police Department Sgt. Eric Melendez said Thursday that the

Sriracha Hot Sauce may move its factory out of California because of a months-long battle with the city of Irwindale over the smell from the factory, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sriracha sauce creator David Tran said on Wednesday that there

Amidst the general gloom about Republican electoral fortunes in California, past and present, came some good news last week: Pete Peterson, director of the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at Pepperdine University, is leading the race for Secretary

According to Southern California NBC4, the homeless woman who was egged by three teens in Lancaster on Monday was Kathleen Hurst, who had become homeless just two months ago and was once married for 24 years. The Los Angeles Times

California’s Obamacare exchange enrolled the most people in the nation, but San Francisco hospitals and doctors have yet to see an uptick in patients, reports the San Francisco Business Times. “Here’s the mystery: Why aren’t Bay Area doctors’ offices, hospitals,

Fire trucks from the Monterey Park, CA Fire Department and the Alhambra Fire department collided on the way to a house fire and catapulted the Monterey Park truck through the front wall of Lu Dumpling House on Wednesday. The Los

Photographers can nip and tuck plenty when it’s time to capture a celebrity subject. Just ask Lena Dunham, the uber-feminist who didn’t seem to mind when Vogue did just that to her in a highly publicized photo spread. Now, we’re

Each of the candidates in the running to replace retiring Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman in California’s 33rd congressional district–home to Breitbart News HQ–filed the first quarterly finance reports of the year with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, listing contributions

Jeff Herman, a Florida-based attorney who represented the alleged-sexual abuse victims of Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash (who ended up resigning), has a new client who is accusing “X-Men: Days of Future Past” director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him as

Gary Cohn, writing at the Huffington Post (and Capital & Main), takes on the “Corporate Democrats” of California–those Democrats who support moderate policies despite the overwhelming power their party enjoys in the state legislature. He advances two theories for their behavior:

California has become one of the most reliably “blue” states in the Union (the Democrats having convinced the rest of us, somehow, to assign to Republicans the “red” that used to mark both Democrats’ electoral victories on the map and

A new Field Poll yields a surprising result: by 54% to 35%, California voters “say they prefer lower taxes and fewer government services to higher taxes and more government services.” In addition, an astonishing 73% of California voters believe government

Californians may be rethinking widespread opposition to using recycled water for drinking, reports Brian Resnick of National Journal. In the past, the option of using treated wastewater to augment the state’s drinking supply has been rejected by voters. But in

The Wall Street Journal has published a scathing editorial in Thursday’s edition, castigating California Attorney General Kamala Harris and her proposed ballot initiative to raise damage caps on medical malpractice suits. Calling the state’s 1975 reform–under Jerry Brown, in his first
Someday soon, you will go to the doctor’s office and the doctor will know exactly what’s wrong with you. Indeed, most likely, you, and your doctor, will have been tipped off by an app–maybe an app in your clothing. If

On April 3, Republican Mike Morrell gave up his seat in the California State Assembly as he was sworn into the State Senate–he had recently won a special election in a Senate District in the Inland Empire. One of the

The state of California is one of the most pluralistic societies in the world. Our people come in all colors, religious beliefs, ethnic backgrounds and other characteristics imaginable. “Diversity” is not just a word in California; it is a reality.

The California Field Poll has released its latest study on voters’ opinions of the seriousness of the current drought and what steps the state should take to respond to the crisis. The poll found that 88% of voters believe the

To be naïve to the sensitivities of a particular community is forgivable; however, to turn a blind eye to a community’s deep-seated concerns when they are brought to your attention is shameful. This is precisely what happened in the City