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California Assemblyman Curt Hagman introduced Assembly Bill 2440, a bill intended to offer local school districts the ability to delay the implementation of the Common Core-related, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing. Two Republican legislators, Assembly Members Kristin Olsen (CA-12)

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is doubling the funding for sidewalk repair in the city of Los Angeles to $20 million. What is surprising about the increase is he hasn’t used any of the $10 million already budgeted for the

A Superior Court Judge read out the final chapter of an ongoing story of corruption, arrogance, and greed when she sentenced a small town city official to spend the next twelve years in prison and to pay back $8.8 million

On Saturday, the L.A. and Santa Monica Tea Party, along with a consortium of other Tea Party groups, will be gathering to make a stand for freedom, promote small government, and to demand accountability  and financial responsibility from our elected

State governments enjoy widely varying levels of trust. That’s the finding of a new Gallup poll summarized by Breitbart’s Joel B. Pollak on April 7.  Illinois rests at the bottom of the trust heap with a trust deficit of 42

Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg will not be pursuing a carbon tax on consumer fuels as he had announced in February. Instead he will be allocating billions of dollars from California’s greenhouse gas reduction law, otherwise known as Cap

Just last month Deadline reported that Sony is prepping $100 million in cuts and layoffs caused mainly by the humiliating failure of two very expensive left-wing films. Despite big stars like Will Smith, Channing Tatum, and Jamie Foxx, “After Earth”

Two registered sex offenders have been arrested in connection with the deaths of four women in Orange County, California. Franc Cano, 27, and Steven Dean Gordon, 45, were arrested Friday in Anaheim. The LA Times reports both men were sex

Newly elected San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer delivered his budget proposal to the public Monday afternoon. Faulconer held a news conference, describing his plan to increase revenues as the economy recovers and put a spending focus on infrastructure and public

The headline in Politico seems innocuous enough: “Napster co-founder Sean Parker to lead civic startup.”  According to the piece, the reason for the startup is that Parker and other Silicon Valley types “want to help get out the vote and are pouring

On Monday, a homeless woman praying on the sidewalk in the city of Lancaster was assaulted by a teenage boy in an egging attack. The Los Angeles Times reported that a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy caught the suspect in the act

The Los Angeles Times reported that an audit of Cudahy, one of the poorest cities in Los Angeles county, revealed that city leaders mismanaged state funds and blatantly exploited the use of city-issued credit cards, running up excessive bills for

The prolonged California drought is generating a huge boom for well drilling service companies and prompting some farmers to invest in expensive drilling rigs that can cost $1 million. The Sacramento Bee reported with California in its 3rd year of drought,

Freedom Communications, owner of the Orange County Register, is launching a new daily newspaper in Los Angeles. The new daily’s publisher, Aaron Kushner, tells the OC Register, “We are going to bring our fabulous brand of local journalism and political

Radar Online reports that during one of the worst droughts in California’s history, Lady Gaga wasted 365,000 gallons of precious water while shooting a video at the Hearst Castle. After paying a fee of $250,000, Gaga filled the famous Neptune

The California Chamber of Commerce aims to kill 26 bills that they say would damage job creation in the state. According to the LA Times, the annual list of job killing bills presented by the chamber consisted primarily of proposed

A California Democrat has proposed legislation that would limit the number of full-contact practices for high school football teams during the season and ban them completely in the offseason.  Assemblyman Ken Cooley’s AB 2127 reads: This bill would express legislative

Jim Costa is running for his sixth term as a U.S. Congressman representing parts of California’s Central Valley. This year, four Republicans and one Democrat have stepped forward to challenge him. Costa currently represents California’s 16th district, which includes the

California’s Ellis Act has triggered evictions in Los Angeles and San Francisco, as rent-controlled units are being converted to condominiums, apartment buildings, or groups of single-family homes.  The law states that property owners can evict residents if they turn the

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Senator Dick Durbin, (D-IL) have published the data from a congressional staff investigation so the lawmakers can attack e-cigarettes. There are calls from California lawmakers for the Food and Drug Administration to start getting involved in

A sold-out matinee performance of Don Quixote on April 13, 2014 was possibly the last-ever performance for the San Diego Opera. Amidst financial troubles, directors of the organization voted almost unanimously to cease operations at a March 19 meeting. Many

Much has been made recently of San Francisco’s changing cultural climate. Where the city was once one of the preeminent bastions of music and counterculture, the recent emergence of the city as technology capital of the country has supposedly contributed

Former UC Berkeley police officer Allison Jacobs is being denied a concealed carry permit by the university because she is on medical retirement. Jacobs is the officer who ascertained the identity of the man who kidnapped Jaycee Dugard. Dugard was

Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is leading a congressional delegation to Ukraine during the two-week April House recess, the Orange County Register reports.  The delegation will also visit Azerbaijan to discuss regional security issues,

The Pacific Palisades Democratic Club set a standard for Democrats vying to replace retiring Rep. Henry Waxman (D) in the 33rd congressional district: You must have raised $200,000 by April 8 to qualify. The club used that standard to whittle down