As media-christened "frontrunners" Gov. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney went missing from the California Republican Party's Fall convention, Texas Congressman Ron Paul seized the day
A new FBI report released Monday is brimming with startling figures about the four-decades-old War on Drugs. Shockingly, in the United States, there is a drug arrest every
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords hosted a solar summit last Wednesday which discussed solar power policy goals for Arizona. Two fascinating points emerged from the discussions.
First, many thought the early projections
Demonstrators gathered in downtown Manhattan on Saturday to protest the influence of Wall St. and corporate interests in our nation's politics. The assembly, which has occupied a park
Is there anyone less popular today than a sitting politician? Well, yes. Someone else’s politician. Today’s generalized numbers about Congress, the President, Democrats and Republicans go out the
A top lobbying group for the arms industry has announced its intentions to lobby the new Congressional Supercommittee against defense spending cuts. According to the Aerospace Industries Association, the Pentagon&
After spending months squabbling about a budget that turned out to be a train wreck because of the usual wildly over-optimistic revenue estimates, the California legislature is focusing its
For most environmental organizations, news of an oil pipeline approved in their backyard would be tantamount to war. But not for the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) of Santa Barbara, which
The annual California grape harvest is in full swing and so far field reports are positive, with few weather related issues. Raisin grape growers are picking their produce at its
Tomorrow will mark the close of dove season in the greater Phoenix Metropolitan area. The past two weeks have been a trial run for a new state law that has
Political insiders all over California are scrambling to make sense of how the state's newly-drawn legislative districts might affect next year's elections. Any such calculations
