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The Vermin Are Winning in Los Angeles: Five Dead From West Nile, Typhus Makes an Encore

September 24, 2026 12:04 pmSeptember 24, 2026 12:38 pm

Los Angeles County is now reporting 100 West Nile virus cases this year, nearly five times the total recorded for all of 2025, with 94 hospitalizations and five deaths. The numbers come from the Los Angeles County Department of Public...

Mayor Bass Cancels November in the Name of Democracy

September 23, 2026 12:47 pmSeptember 24, 2026 12:10 pm

On Flagrant and Funny with Jemele Hill and Cari Champion, Mayor Karen Bass did California the courtesy of canceling November. “That’s why the governor’s race is over. Our governor’s name is Xavier Becerra. You don’t need an election on November...

Aaron Ford’s Path to the Nevada Governor’s Mansion Runs Through ActBlue And Airports

September 22, 2026 2:42 pmSeptember 22, 2026 2:54 pm

With early voting in Nevada’s governor’s race beginning Oct. 17, Attorney General Aaron Ford is spending September on a coast-to-coast fundraising tour—New Orleans, New York, Dallas, and Charleston—instead of delivering a closing argument at home against Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo....

Poll: Majority of Democrats Would Cheer a Military Coup Against Trump; Nearly One-Third Support Assassination

September 22, 2026 10:29 amSeptember 22, 2026 10:32 am

A new survey of Democratic voters finds large majorities open to extra-constitutional and even lethal methods of removing President Donald Trump from office before the end of his term, results that reveal the Democratic rhetoric about “saving democracy”as cover for...

Tahoe Officials Face a Cluster of Criminal Cases Across the State Line

September 21, 2026 1:55 pmSeptember 21, 2026 1:55 pm

The California-Nevada line at Lake Tahoe is supposed to separate two governments. This month it has not separated the embarrassment. In the span of two weeks, federal prosecutors charged a former South Lake Tahoe mayor with wire fraud, Douglas County...

Lombardo Executive Order Puts Guardrails on Data Centers After Ford-Authored 2015 Giveaway

September 21, 2026 10:53 amSeptember 21, 2026 10:53 am

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed Executive Order 2026-005 on Sept. 17 establishing the Nevada Standard for Responsible Data Center Development, requiring developers seeking tax abatements to pay the Local School Support Tax in full, cover their own energy and infrastructure...

Von Wilpert Claims Stewardship as San Diego Residents Hit Potholes and Sue Over Trash Fees

September 17, 2026 2:42 pmSeptember 18, 2026 12:21 pm

San Diego City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert is running for Congress on a record of local stewardship. Her record on the council, the auditor’s books, and the city’s crumbling infrastructure challenge that claim. Von Wilpert chaired the City Council’s Active...