The State of California is getting ready to spend $20 billion, which we don't happen to have, but never mind that, on (hold your breath) freeway expansion!
Gene D. Block | Posted 12.02.2009 | Los Angeles
The Southern California community seems not to see that if UCLA sinks into mediocrity, so do the quality of life and economic vitality of Los Angeles.
Zev Yaroslavsky | Zev Yaroslavsky | Posted 11.23.2009 | Los Angeles
The National Parks Service has come to the rescue of the highly popular state parks in the Santa Monica Mountains, providing a grant of $939,169 to av...
Pedro Nava | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
I firmly believe that the Governor should be careful and thoughtful about this appointment. This decision should not be rushed, as some have suggested.
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 | 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...
Karen Stabiner | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Early applicants take up as much as 25 percent of an incoming class. If you're the kind of person who buys movie tickets on-line so you can choose the best seat, you know that the later it gets, the fewer options you have.
Bill Mundell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Incredibly, the state of California, the 8th largest economy in the world, doesn't have a complete balance sheet. It's not a question of bankruptcy, taxes, or services, but of redeploying the state's significant assets.
Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
Color discrimination is undeniably widespread in Latin America. How has this caste system gone on for so long without acknowledgment from the international media or the US government?
Dean Florez | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
This summer, I find myself wondering what my grandmother would make of this new California: 38 million residents strong; $26 billion dollars in the hole; deep cuts to education and social service programs.
Aryn Quinn | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
In the past, Governor Schwarzenegger has championed the rights of victims of domestic abuse. But with a single callous act, he has compromised his legacy.
Michael Meranze | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
California's present crisis isn't an effect of outdated liberal irresponsibility. It's the logical outcome of a radically reactionary agenda that limits the State's ability to help the needy and invest in the future.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
By blocking any new revenue streams to fund higher education, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Senate Republican minority are not only taxing California's young people and their families, they are crippling the state's future.
Eve Ensler | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Schwarzenegger has always had contempt for the vulnerable, or maybe it's just his own inner girlie man he despises. But now he has gone too far.
Jaclyn Friedman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment
We need to ask what kind of sentence will help ensure Brown -- and men all over the country just like him -- never beats another woman.
Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics
I can't afford to volunteer for the community anymore. Got to spend every free moment earning money or taking care of my mom and son.
Michael Meranze | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
If Jefferson linked together education, freedom of thought, universities and national independence what can we say about our own political leaders?
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Emily Witt | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
This post was co-published with ProPublica. Good financial news out of California is rare these days, but one key crime-fighting agency has emerged f...
Bob Burnett | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
California's problems are not insurmountable, but their resolution will require concerted action: new leadership, likely a new constitution, and the willingness to consider alternative revenue sources.
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity has sunk to a new low of 28 percent as he heads into his final months in office gra...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
Here are five things I wish would be discussed more, both by the press and by those responsible for making the case for UC to legislators and the public at large.
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a revised $85 billion budget Tuesday that he said contained "the good, the bad and the ug...
Mary Hall | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Gather all important financial statements and review what you own, your assets, and what you owe, your liabilities. Look carefully at how you're putting our hard-earned cash to work.
Phil Trounstine | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Schwarzenegger's triumphalist braying was little more than an exercise in spin control, a transparent bid to establish a positive narrative for the budget disaster over which he's presided.
Posted 08.24.2009 | Comedy
We all know by now that California is in serious trouble. The state's budget crisis has gotten so bad that Governor Schwarzenegger announced he will h...
Larry Arnstein | Posted 12.08.2009 | Los Angeles