This year, Californians will vote on a ballot measure that could legalize weed recreationally in the state. Many of the groups donating money to fight the legalization effort represent police and corrections officers. Why do you think that might be?
On Saturday, a high school principal in California apologized for a yearbook “misprint” that identified a Muslim student wearing a hijab as “Isis Phillips,” the name of an unrelated student, NBC News reports.
In Southern California, the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded, and ready to roll,” according to one earthquake scientist. Thanks for being so colorful, dude.
Approximately 20 people were arrested following a Donald Trump campaign event in Costa Mesa, California, last night, according to police, after peaceful protests in conservative Orange County turned violent.
Today, Tim Clark and Ron Nehring run Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s California presidential campaigns, respectively. But four years ago, the Guardian reports, the two men spent six weeks in Guatemala as paid advisors to Manuel Baldízon, a multimillionaire rightwing populist who promised to broadcast executions on television and lead the Guatemalan national soccer team to the World Cup.
California lawmakers, working in tandem with labor unions, struck a deal to raise the statewide minimum—at first, to $10.50, with gradual increases to $15. The deal allowed lawmakers to avoid bringing the wage increase issue to a ballot, a vote which polls suggest California voters would overwhelmingly support.
In California, a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021 has qualified for the ballot. Californians can use the money to pay USC’s $51,000 annual tuition.
In San Francisco and Silicon Valley, housing is expensive and in short supply. All throughout the Bay Area, cities are discussing where the hell all their schoolteachers are supposed to live.
A hellish and desolate landscape of “freeways”—an ironic name, for they only serve to imprison you in an idling, air-conditioned bubble as life slowly passes you by.
“Anyone can aspire to be President of the United States, but few have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club,” Richard Nixon reportedly once said. But for a kid growing up in Sonoma County, California near the Bohemian Grove, the club’s ultra-exclusive campground, getting a service job there was easy.
Another week is here, and with it, another story about the affluent, techie-infested caricature that San Francisco has become. Hey, assholes: step one to surviving this trying time is to build more fucking housing.
In two sworn depositions, unsealed Thursday, Donald Trump admitted that he had nothing at all to do with choosing the Trump University instructors, presented for years as his “hand-picked” representatives, who purported to impart his secret knowledge, itself born of years of experience and a Wharton education.
Three people were stabbed—one critically—and 12 arrested during a clash between members of the Ku Klux Klan and counter-demonstrators in Anaheim, California, about 3 miles from Disneyland, on Saturday.
In 2008, billionaire venture capitalist and real selfish bastard Vinod Khosla paid $32.5 million for an 89-acre beachfront property in California. Now, he’s asking for $30 million just to let the public use the beach.
Federal officials announced on Sunday that the U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a “comprehensive review” of the San Francisco Police Department, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Five SFPD officers shot and killed Mario Woods, a black man, in contested circumstances last December.
Well, boy, hoo... this is embarrassing, but the Orange County Sheriff’s Department just lost an AR-15 rifle. Have you seen it? It looks just like the one up there. Uh, if you find it, could you give it back? Listen, I know this looks bad, but do me a solid here. They put it on top of their car and then drove off. I guess it fell. Anyone?
A black mountain bear was tranquilized at a garbage dump in Fresno, California, on Tuesday afternoon, the Associated Press reports. The bear had ridden there from the Hume Lake area, some 65 miles away, in the back of a garbage truck.
The state of California issued a report this week on conditions at High Desert State Prison. It is a nightmare.
