A California Highway Patrol vehicle is parked outside the state Capitol in Sacramento in 2022. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) When the state of California paid prison supervising dentist George Soohoo $1.2 million last year, it wasn’t for a job well done. It was for vacation never taken. Soohoo joined the rare club of state … Read more
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass poses for a picture Saturday with Shyne Griggs, 3, at an event by the 1Pali organization at Clover Park in Santa Monica to mark 100 days since the Palisades fire. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) For Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, the list of problems keeps piling up. She … Read more
An evening show last week at the Hollywood Improv comedy club included poop jokes, a song about young people being too woke and a raunchy impression of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. There were no quips about President Trump’s international tariffs, even from a comedian who had just posted a lengthy podcast episode about the on-again-off-again … Read more
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan S. Greenspan disclosed Wednesday he had “objected quite strongly” to a recent attempt by a Reagan Administration official to prod the Fed into reducing interest rates. He warned that further pressure could provoke the Fed into the opposite course. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Greenspan said he had … Read more
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy prepares to unlock a security door at the L.A. County Men’s Central Jail. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) A landmark law to abolish California’s money bail system has been put on hold until voters decide its fate in November 2020 after elections officials on Wednesday certified a … Read more
Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, billed as the man with the keys to the Iran- contra scandal, weathered his first day before congressional panels Tuesday after surrendering almost no new answers to the affair. North’s testimony came as no surprise to Sen. Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.), co-chairman of the Senate Iran-contra panel. “It proves what … Read more
An exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope. (ConocoPhillips via Associated Press) The Biden administration’s approval this week of Alaska’s biggest oil drilling project in decades promises to widen a rift among Indigenous people in the state — with some saying oil money can’t counter the … Read more
Susan Rubio has earned an endorsement from the Democratic Legislative Women’s Caucus in her race for state Senate, but legislative leaders are supporting her opponent, former Assemblyman Mike Eng. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Baldwin Park Councilwoman Susan Rubio shook up the state Capitol last year when she went to court and obtained a … Read more
In Florida, Miami Herald state editor John Pancake is having political reporters skip some of the speeches at county fairs this year and instead watch a little more TV. In Texas, Clayton W. Williams Jr., the Republican candidate for governor, had to redo one of his television commercials because reporters found he had exaggerated his … Read more
Californians face new restrictions on carrying guns, new regulations on medical marijuana, and higher pay if they earn minimum wage under laws that take effect in 2016.Parents, students, healthcare providers and anyone who gets behind the wheel of a car will see changes — some immediately, some over the course of the year. Many of … Read more
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