Here's the reason Californians don't trust Sacramento: In July 2003, the state controller's office figured there were 230,000 state employees. Since then, every budget d...
"Be careful when you pass away."
So advised PBS broadcast journalist Aaron Brown during a conversation we had in the midst of the recent crazy news cycle. Several storie...
If you live on the ocean and you hear that a hurricane is headed your way, you have two options. You can board up your windows, get in the car and head inland. Or you ca...
Michael Jackson is still dead.
The Michael Jackson Industrial Death Complex, however, thrives in its infancy. Dead Michael is fuel for tabloids, chat shows, and cable ne...
Were the tests job-related? That is where you have to start when considering the case of whether white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were discriminated against when ...
Why tax soda? Obesity is expensive and soda is cheap.
To be sure, a lot of factors contribute to obesity, including enormous restaurant meals and the couch-potato syndro...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — California's campaigns introduce candidates not only to the state's voters but to its immensity. In Bakersfield, Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO o...
With a 150-year prison sentence last week, Bernard Madoff got what he had coming to him — and certainly more than enough to guarantee that the 71-year-old master swindle...
Don't throw that mask away just yet. The World Health Organization declared the swine flu — or H1N1 — outbreak a pandemic, meaning the virus is now a global risk. The di...
WASHINGTON — Now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ended the long count on the 2008 Senate race by awarding the seat to Al Franken, Democrats — at least on paper — ha...
