“Sex offender” is a blanket category in California's criminal code. When allocating resources to track them, there isn't much discrimination by corrections officials between first-time,
According to a recent Modesto Bee editorial, the costs associated with housing imprisoned illegal immigrants who commit offenses in California are on track to becoming an unfunded liability for the
Under California's landmark 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32, the state must reduce greehouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Carbon trading, also known as cap
The public’s deep discontent with the Democratic and Republican parties continues to bubble up to the surface of the national political dialogue. Indeed, the two-party system is itself
According to a new federal report compiled by Mathematica Policy Research for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, California ranks second to last in food stamp benefit participation with only
The Kabuki Theater that is the California budget crisis continues. Republicans ask for the moon, then perhaps unknowingly use a classic Saul Alinsky tactic, while Gov. Brown freezes state hiring
As those immersed in the immigration debate configure their tactical strategy to reform a currently unsatisfactory system, both major political ideologies face the prospect of losing credibility in winning over
Earlier this year with the revolution in Tunisia underway, I noticed a curious phenomenon, one that stuck out for me particularly as a self-described libertarian* -the Associated Press and
They say no publicity is bad publicity, but doubtless Vallejo doesn't feel that way after being ranked by two national magazines as a deeply undesirable place to live.
When Democratic Rep. Jane Harman announced earlier this month that she would be resigning her 36th Congressional District seat, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn wasted no time in announcing
As Egypt fades from the news cycle and the “peoples' revolution” progresses along its story arc, a quiet casualty of the political turmoil there has been reported by the
Michael Bennett, Florida Senate President Pro Tempore, expressed no confidence in the federal government's current ability to fix a broken immigration system, according to a recent News-Press
