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Katie Hill Cuts Goofy Ad for Christy Smith

May 10, 2020 10:00 amJune 30, 2020 1:39 pm

For weeks now, the race in California 25 has been tightening. When freshman incumbent Katie Hill was forced to resign amid accusations of sexual and other workplace improprieties, it was assumed that her 8-point victory over incumbent Republican Steve Knight...

Reed Hastings Gave Over $4 million to Calif Politics in First Quarter

April 1, 2020 12:00 pmJune 30, 2020 2:22 pm

With the world’s population locked in its homes and can’t-look-away productions like Tiger King (and my personal favorite The Valhalla Murders), Netflix is on something of a roll. Even after the worst quarter in the history of the Dow Jones...

Was Tom Steyer’s Campaign the Worst in Presidential History?

February 29, 2020 8:01 pmJune 25, 2020 5:39 am

With the results in from South Carolina, a strong case can be made that Tom Steyer has just concluded the worst campaign in the history of presidential politics. Steyer, the California-based founder of Farallon Capital and the co-founder of Onecalifornia...

EXCLUSIVE: LA Times Editor and Publisher Show Up for Bloomberg

February 11, 2020 8:52 amJune 28, 2020 9:10 pm

Diana Taylor, the longtime companion of Democratic presidential candidate Michael R. Bloomberg was the special guest at a series of four Bloomberg for President events yesterday in California. California plays an outsized role in the nominating contest this year....

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HUD: Homeless population in California jumps by double digits

December 21, 2019 3:30 pmDecember 23, 2019 8:09 am

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has just released data from its 2019 Annual Homelessness Report to Congress and the picture is encouraging for much of the country and catastrophic for California. More than half the country –...

Author’s Stolen Photo Creates False Cancer Impression

December 10, 2019 3:13 pmJune 29, 2020 10:18 am

As a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and winner of that genre’s prestigious Hugo Award, John Scalzi is one of the best-known science fiction writers in America. But a nonfiction story he shared today was...

As Housing Bills Collapse, Talk of Ballot Initiative Grows Louder

November 21, 2019 2:15 amNovember 21, 2019 1:48 pm

Governor Newsom has deemed California’s housing shortage to be a top priority. Last week, he convened the heads of more than a dozen top California-based companies to bring the private sector to the table in search of solutions to a...