Lacking the same oversight and transparency as the state’s public schools, a second charter school in San Fernando Valley – NEW Academy Canoga Park - was charged with “misuse” of $2.
California’s Independent – decline-to-state – voters will decide November’s gubernatorial race between Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown.
Numerically, it is impossible for a Republican candidate for
Earlier this year, CAIVN alerted you to the crisis of prison rape.
Though it receives little attention from mainstream news sources, the rape of prison detainees by other inmates and
Food unites us all. Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Council member, is campaigning for Mayor with this basic precept in mind. Economic recovery, fiscal sustainability and better public health are all
The Tea Party could make a big impact in Congress, unless rival political factions successfully paint the largely independent-minded voter movement as being driven by racism in the controversy
There are levels of misery associated with Burning Man – wind, dust, heat and the lack of normal services such as electricity and telephones. But this year’s weird weather in
Last night, the two candidates for California’s US Senate seat squared off in the first of their debates this election season. From the angle of getting on-topic answers
326 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year, passing last year's record of 317. 56 more troops were killed in August, while President
The state legislature sauntered back from their month long July vacation on August 1 and promptly got back to what they were doing before, which is virtually nothing of substance
The Contra Costa County School District has become the first in the state to implement an electronic tracking system for its students. Preschoolers in Richmond are now required to wear
In today’s political environment, it can be easy to forget that more than a third of Americans consider themselves to be moderates. Moderates are, of course, (in)famous for
Over the weekend, 47 years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr. shook the conceptions of race in the United States at the Lincoln Memorial, Latino immigration activists boarded