In a game of financial chicken between the state of California and the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon blinked first. Or, perhaps that was just Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
Solyndra executives, CEO Brian Harrison and CFO Bill Stover, were pummeled in a Congressional hearing last Friday, mostly by Republicans who wanted to know what happened to the $528 million
Protesters demonstrating against the excesses of crony capitalism and its corrupting influence on our nation’s politics have occupied a park in Manhattan’s financial district for over a week.
As California Gov. Jerry Brown seems to be revealing his Independent approach, a Field poll released this week indicates that he's receiving relatively strong support from both partisans
Apologists for the Military-Industrial Complex generally use one of two methods to prevent an outbreak of rational thought that would undermine the subsidization of history's most privately-
The default rate for college loans has risen sharply in California and the rest of the country, from 7% in 2008 to 8.8% in 2009. For-profit colleges have
When a Sacramento County conservator placed Ofiu Edwards Foto into an Oak Park group home, she may not have realized that the man was dangerous (although that information was easily
A slow economy and unusually cool weather this season have significantly tightened wine grape supplies. Industry insiders expect the shortages to last for several years but say the retail price
Governor Jerry Brown has upwards of 600 bills to consider before the October 9th deadline for approval of all legislation passed last session, and he insists he'll continue
Republicans are worried that the new legislative district maps that have been drawn up by the Citizens Redistricting Commission favor the Democratic party. In conjunction with the top-two open
Gary Johnson, the two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, will be included in Thursday night's Fox News presidential debate in Orlando, Florida. This is the first time
Kinde Durkee, treasurer for well over one hundred Democratic politicians in California, was recently arrested on federal charges for misappropriating funds from state assembly member Jose Solorio. Other Democratic politicians,
