Before the great mortgage collapse that plunged the U.S. and most of the rest of the world into the Great Recession the banksters, according to the L.A. Times, knew they were playing with fire. Jim Puzzanghera and Scott Reckard reported exactly two yea... »
Of course we've been all over Norman Solomon's campaign to replace the retiring Lynn Woolsey and Dr. Lee Rogers' campaign down in the L.A. area to take out arch-reactionary and warmonger Buck McKeon. Both are on our Blue America page and both are major... »
The California Supreme Court will rule Friday on what state Senate district boundary lines will be in effect for this year's legislative elections if a pending referendum qualifies for the ballot. Justices will post their ruling at 10 a.m. Friday on th... »
Laguna Beach’s Pete Labahn and Santa Ana’s Margaret Tatar were each appointed to statewide posts by Gov. Jerry Brown today. From Brown’s news release: Pete Labahn, 56, of Laguna Beach, has been appointed to the Board of Parole Hearings, where he previo... »
Up in the North Bay, the state’s (arguably) most popular Democratic elected official has made an endorsement in the race for the Bay Area’s only House seat without an incumbent seeking re-election. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has endorsed Ass... »
The California Supreme Court today rejected legal challenges to the state's new Senate and congressional maps. The two separate lawsuits were rejected by identical 7-0 votes, said Lynn Holton, court spokeswoman. The court's decision ended the first hur... »
On June 5, Californians for the first time will vote in an open primary. The top two vote-getters in a race will move on to the November general election, whether they are from the same party or not. In addition, this will be the first election with th... »
