In the Public Policy Institute of California's (PPIC) eleventh annual survey on environmental policy issues, 75% said they believe global warming is a very serious or somewhat serious
Most Americans agree that we’ve got a financial problem in this country, although we’re not all in accord about what kind of a problem it is – deficit spending
As partisan gridlock intensifies, the Pew Research Center's constant monitoring of Independent voters continues to reveal the building momentum of the non-partisan movement.
In a recent Pew
Farmworker movement leader Richard Chavez passed away Wednesday at Bakersfield hospital. Richard helped found the United Farmworkers of America with his brother Cesar. According to union spokeswoman Maria Machuca, he
California has mandated that 33% of power by 2020 must be from renewable sources. This has created a huge surge in applications to build renewable energy plants as developers have
With registered voters abandoning the Democratic and Republican parties statewide, the Green Party’s candidates for mayor of Tucson see an opening ahead of their primary election showdown late next
More than 80 applications have been filed in Arizona for wind and power plants. If even some of them are approved, it would mean thousands of new jobs, increased tax
California’s Dream Act took a step forward when Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law AB 130, a portion of the Dream Act that allows children of undocumented immigrants
Californians can pursue class-action lawsuits against cities and counties if they were charged an illegal local tax says the state Supreme Court. In Monday's unanimous decision, justices
In a recent interview with NPR, David Linden, professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the chief editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology, discussed the
The haboob that hit Phoenix on July 5 was indeed a monster, the largest in decades. It was at least 100 miles long, lasted for two hours, and was several