All too often, prosecutors' offices fall prey to a culture of conviction-seeking at all costs. Prosecutors who become singularly focused on conviction...
Byron Williams | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago
Take it from someone who remembers the last time a governor was recalled: Having the power to recall the governor might feel empowering, but that feeling is temporary at best.
Sacramento Bee | Jim Sanders | Posted 11.22.2009 | Los Angeles
For years California has courted a reputation as an eco-friendly, green-minded leader, but the state now finds its most basic program of recycling bev...
AP | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head. California game war...
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 11.20.2009 | Los Angeles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite multiple attempts to balance California's budget, the state can still expect to confront shortfalls approaching $20...
AP | TERRY COLLINS and EVELYN NIEVES | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home
RICHMOND, Calif. — Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Emily Anderson | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver
Colorado isn't in the top 10 states in "fiscal peril," according to a new report from Pew Center on the States. It's number 11. Along with Georg...
Thomas W. Carroll | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York
Given New York's fiscal troubles -- Governor David Paterson has warned that the state could run out of money as early as December -- this is not a competition the state can afford to lose.
Wayne Besen | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
With a record of 0-31 in marriage initiatives, now may be a good opportunity to review our complicity in a process that doles out or strips away basic rights by majority vote.
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In Arizona, the budget has grown so gloomy that lawmakers are considering mortgaging Capitol buildings. In Michigan, state ...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says, but most ...
Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
Bodies of dead porpoises off the coast of California have perplexed scientists for some time. Researchers now say they are most likely being killed by...
Joanne Doroshow | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Tort "reform" is a doozy of a misnomer. There is certainly nothing positive or beneficial about it.
San Jose Mercury News | Posted 11.07.2009 | Home
A maintenance worker found the body of Gabriel Contreras, 21, of Palo Alto after lifting part of the cover from the swimming pool at Hoover Park. The ...
Carlos Cagin | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
Talk about a serious lack of sense of humor: The dairy producers behind the ubiquitous "Got Milk?" slogan are suing a small T-shirt company that switc...
Terry Gardner | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
For months (if not years) we've been reading that the State of California is broke. Here are two possible solutions.
Mira Veda | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Perhaps, in a few years when he's proven he has the character everyone admired in him in the first place he can jump into another race in politics.
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An energy lobbyist who was the subject of an investigation after a former California lawmaker was caught on tape bragging a...
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
Within 18 months of leaving the system, 1/4 of children in foster care will have been incarcerated, 1/5 will have experienced homelessness and 1/3 will suffer major depression.
Ellen Brown | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Why is North Dakota doing so well, when other states are suffering the ravages of a deepening credit crisis? Its secret may be that it has its own credit machine.
Sarah Granger | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
While I'm saddened he will not be continuing his run for Governor of California at this time, I feel lucky we still have Mayor Newsom in San Francisco to continue fighting the good fight.
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
It's just one of those wild coincidences, like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams dying the same day, exactly 50 years after they signed the Declaration ...
Alex Henry | Posted 11.01.2009 | Style
I was not far into Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller, but I was sufficiently delighted by what I had read that I decided I must visit this place.
Seattle Times | Melissa Allison | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
Costco Wholesale plans to accept food stamps at its warehouse stores nationwide, a major shift for a company that earlier this year said it doubted th...
nytimes.com | JESSE McKINLEY | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California -- and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federa...
John Terzano | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home