California set off a biofuel boom — but can it manage the fallout? As dawn breaks over 40,000 cows housed in a miles-long cluster of dairy farms near Bakersfield, rivers of their manure rush toward football-field-sized lagoons that are a hotbed of greenhouse gas, bubbling with the methane created by all those cattle droppings. To … Read more
It’s not fair. Proposition 226 would mean more power to big business and less power to working people. This initiative would restrict union members but allow big business to spend corporate dollars without limit. Corporations already outspend union members 11 to 1 on political campaigns, so if Prop. 226 passes the playing field would be … Read more
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed into law a controversial bill requiring women to have an ultrasound before undergoing an abortion. The bill sparked a national furor among abortion rights activists who argued that the intent was to make it more costly and more difficult for women to receive abortions. The bill signed by McDonnell … Read more
Wrapped inside the words of remembrance, the bittersweet laughter, the silent tears, lies a need as deep as their grief. Grief is personal, resolved in quiet moments after the service is over and the farewells uttered. But this need–the need for voices that shout rather than whisper, for those who prod rather than touch lightly–afflicts … Read more
State Sen. Scott Wiener stands in front of a mural at Oasis, a drag club he helped the owners launch in San Francisco. (Josh Edelson / For The Times) Long before Scott Wiener became California’s leading housing iconoclast or a regular target for scathing Fox News diatribes, he was an introverted New Jersey teen with … Read more
Protesters gather to demonstrate against changes in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy at City Hall in Los Angeles on Sept. 5, 2017. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Here are key developments that led to the Supreme Court case that will decide whether President Trump was justified in seeking to end … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak during a campaign rally last week in Atlanta. (John Bazemore / Associated Press) Vice President Kamala Harris, a daughter of immigrants who rose through the California political and law enforcement ranks to become the first female vice president in U.S. history, formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination Monday … Read more
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed nine bills to aid young people facing charges and serving time, a victory for a statewide coalition of criminal justice groups that brought together celebrities and former youth offenders in a push to divert children from a path to prison. The new laws will increase parole opportunities and ease … Read more
The emotional issue of immigration is boiling up into another vexing political dilemma for President Clinton, and–as on gays in the military–his compassion appears to be on a collision course with his constituency. Few other national issues offer the same combustible mix of color, culture and constitutional rights. Clinton has kept it off the front … Read more
Roe vs. Wade is one of this year’s loudest political rallying cries–immediately familiar, and immediately dividing the audience. Already, in either party or both, someone is probably saying, “Where is Jane Roe? What happened to her? Can we get her?” There are many such names, equally known if less divisive: Brown vs. Board of Education. … Read more
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