09/09/2010 (3) Del Mar racetrack honors military personnel
T.J. Simers
09/09/2010 (3) Govenor's Race: Brown says “Experience!;” Whitman says “Waste!”
Seema Mehta and Maeve Reston
09/09/2010 (3) Vandalism at Madera mosque
Diana Marcum
09/09/2010 (3) CalPERS may change pension calculation rules after scandal in Bell
Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives
09/09/2010 (3) Associates of Beverly Hills firm get Federal indictments in human-trafficking case
Teresa Watanabe
09/09/2010 (3) L.A. County welfare to children of illegal immigrants grows
Teresa Watanabe
09/09/2010 (3) New type of nationwide school tests coming
Howard Blume, Jason Song
09/04/2010 (3) Health Care Vigil in Thousand Oaks: Provocation to violent response
Karoli
09/04/2010 (3) California labor flexes its muscle
Harold Meyerson
09/04/2010 (3) L.A. County orders disclosure of child deaths from abuse, neglect / Supervisors demand answers
Garrett Therolf
08/24/2010 (3) Documentary about Pat Tillman now showing
08/24/2010 (3) Meg Whitman attacks Jerry Brown
Seema Mehta, Michael J. Mishak
08/24/2010 (3) L.A. Unified Shool District wants "value-added" in teaaher evaluations
Jason Song
08/24/2010 (3) Willie Brown, former California Assembly speaker talks about Schwarzenegger, state budget--and more
Patt Morrison
08/24/2010 (3) "Tax Lady" Roni Lynn Deutch sued by state
Dale Kasler
08/12/2010 (3) Economists see flaws in Meg Whitman's proposals
Seema Mehta
08/12/2010 (3) Northeast of Silicon Valley, recession's effects magnified
Alana Semuels
08/12/2010 (3) Who's to blame for Schwarzenegger's mess? Schwarzenegger
Sheila James Kuehl
08/12/2010 (3) Human smuggling boat landings on Camp Pendleton
Teri Figueroa
08/12/2010 (3) California public universities face expanding needs, contracting resources
Ronald Brownstein
08/04/2010 (3) AG Jerry Brown compares budget process to Bell pay scandal
08/04/2010 (3) Huntington Beach council votes to annex Sunset Beach
Huntington Beach council votes to annex Sunset Beach
08/04/2010 (3) Jane Harman's husband buys Newsweek
08/04/2010 (3) Iranian-born California comic breaks Middle East taboos
Borzou Daragahi
08/04/2010 (3) Students raised in foster care to get priority housing at California universities
Larry Gordon
08/04/2010 (3) California students need clear path to college degree
LA Times editorial
07/27/2010 (3) Nominee For State Supreme Court Chief Justice Avoids Hot-button Issues
07/27/2010 (3) Which California lawmakers' bills were sponsored by special interests?
07/27/2010 (3) How Californiar laws are really made
Karen de Sá
07/27/2010 (3) Lobbyists Have Leverage Over California Lawmakers
Karen de Sá
05/16/2010 (3) Gulf of Mexico oil spill may scuttle California offshore drilling deal
Michael Hiltzik
05/16/2010 (3) Father Gregory Boyle fights to keep Homeboy Industries alive
Hector Becerra
05/16/2010 (3) Homeboy Industries in L.A. hurt by lack of money
Hector Becerra
05/16/2010 (3) Schwarzenegger's budget cuts hurt the poor
Shane Goldmacher
05/16/2010 (3) Meg Whitman's words shine light on her acts
Evan Halper, Jack Dolan
05/16/2010 (3) The Thottam for Assembly 2010 campaign
Peter Thottam
05/10/2010 (3) Who would Prop. 17 (car insurance initiative) benefit?
Carol J. Williams
05/10/2010 (3) California sues former CalPERS officials
Marc Lifsher
05/10/2010 (3) WellPoint rates get new scrutiny from state and federal officials
Duke Helfand
05/10/2010 (3) Former Assembly speaker's son =t pleads guilty in San Diego stabbing death
Tony Perry
05/03/2010 (3) Money talks loudly in California election
Michael Hiltzik
05/03/2010 (3) Sempra, parent company of So. California Ga, to pay $400 million to settle energy crisis gaming complaints
05/03/2010 (3) Drivers still texting despite California ban
Kate Linthicum
05/02/2010 (3) California plant that could have saved U.S. car industry
05/02/2010 (3) Infant airlifted out of Vietnam thanks UCLA doctor
Martha Groves
04/24/2010 (3) Pat Tillman documentary, set for August release, will make you angry and ashamed
Bill Dwyre
04/24/2010 (3) Police say unloaded arms pose threat / 'Open carry' backers stick to their guns
/ Kevin Fagan
04/24/2010 (3) Calforna's mortality rate during pregnancy three times higher than 1996's
04/24/2010 (3) Deal between SF's mayor / unon leaders may reduce city worker layoffs
John Coté
04/24/2010 (3) 23 arrested in Hemet after crime probe
Robert J. Lopez, Andrew Blankstein
04/24/2010 (3) Proposition 15: A campaign financing initiative that's quite unfair
Dan Walters
04/19/2010 (3) California ties with Rhode Island for third-highest jobless rate.
04/19/2010 (3) East LA's Father Gregory Boyle and Life among the Homies
Patt Morrison
04/19/2010 (3) Exhibit reflects Camp Pendleton's role as refuge for Vietnamese
My-Thuan Tran
04/19/2010 (3) March exports jump at Los Angeles, Long Beach ports
Ronald D. White
04/19/2010 (3) For eco-friendly surfboard shapers, more kelp coming
04/19/2010 (3) Where I stood with Daryl Gates wasn't pretty.
Jim Newton
04/11/2010 (3) Just how vulnerable is Barbara Boxer?
Thomas Elias
04/11/2010 (3) Cirque du L.A. ringmasters: Do your jobs
Steve Lopez
04/06/2010 (3) The myth about California outmigration
Thomas D. Elias
04/06/2010 (3) Obit: Jaime Escalante, math teacher who challenged East L.A. students / Forner student' example of Escalante's and colleagues' success
Elaine Woo / Jay Mathews
04/06/2010 (3) Was Cesar Chavez elevated to iconic status without his legacy being critically examined?
Miriam Pawel
04/06/2010 (3) From bucolic bliss to 'gated ghetto'
Alana Semuels
04/06/2010 (3) Latin American immigrants are frustrated too
Hector Tobar
03/29/2010 (3) California unemployment rate steady at 12.5%
Marc Lifsher
03/29/2010 (3) Immigration reform, with respect
Meg Whitman
03/29/2010 (3) California must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
Steve Poizner
03/29/2010 (3) Victorville woman pleads guilty to defrauding AIG of $1.4M
03/29/2010 (3) Will Whitman's beaucoup bucks mean beaucoup votes?
Steve Lopez
03/23/2010 (3) California tax relief for forgiven mortgage debt delayed by politics
Jim Wasserman
03/23/2010 (3) California tax relief for forgiven mortgage debt delayed by politics
Jim Wasserman
03/14/2010 (3) Jaime Escalante, math teacher portrayed in movie 'Stand and Deliver,' has cancer
Esmeralda Bermudez
03/14/2010 (3) 20%+ Unemployment in eight counties in California
Alana Semuels
03/14/2010 (3) 32,500 new California jobs in January
Alana Semuels
03/10/2010 (3) News flash: Party-animal frat boys engage in stupid, offensive and racist stunts!
Gregory Rodriguez
03/10/2010 (3) Overtime pay may be putting a dent in state's furlough savings
Patrick McGreevy
03/10/2010 (3) City National repays remainder of TARP funds
E. Scott Reckard
03/10/2010 (3) California jail inmates benefit from a bad economy
Jack Leonard, Ruben Vives
03/10/2010 (3) Incidents among UC students have many wondering
Christina Hoag
03/07/2010 (3) CALIFORNIA MAN GETS 8 YEARS FOR STEALING A POUND OF CHEESE!
DANIEL NASAW
03/02/2010 (3) Electricity from cow manure creates Central California stink
P.J. Huffstutter
03/02/2010 (3) Power plants oppose proposal blocking using seawater for cooling
Jill Leovy
03/02/2010 (3) Dream about a California state constitutional convention was just a
George Skelton
03/02/2010 (3) UCSD flap: Beyond a 'Compton Cookout'
03/02/2010 (3) Schwarzenegger and the Hummer probably won't be back
Joe Mathews
02/23/2010 (3) Early release of prisoners
Andy Furillo
02/23/2010 (3) Tree deal revives desert solar plan
Todd Woody
02/23/2010 (3) Cost / effectveness of Otay Mountain border fence: $57.7M
Richard Marosi
02/23/2010 (3) Hearts for fallen troops decorate plaza
Elysabeth Hahm
02/14/2010 (3) California worst state government in the nation?
Gail Collins
02/14/2010 (3) California leads U.S. in animal protection
Carol J. Williams
02/14/2010 (3) Healthcare coverage in name only
David Lazarus
02/14/2010 (3) California cracks down on discount health plans
Duke Helfand
02/07/2010 (3) LA, Long Beach ports fight to stay dominant
Ronald D. White
02/07/2010 (3) Legal resident--not a U.S. citizen but mistaken for illegal immigrant--needs to start thinking like he really belongs in U.S.
Hector Tobar
01/31/2010 (3) Ignorance about state governmment bites California in the wallet
Cathleen Decker
01/31/2010 (3) Costa Mesa may earmark $250,000 for fairgrounds expenses
Elyn Pak
01/31/2010 (3) Accidents not reduced by hand-held cellphone ban
Ari B. Bloomekatz
01/24/2010 (3) Exhibit at California Science Center gives new look at black history
Sandy Banks
01/24/2010 (3) Slowdown in California home building eats jobs
Alana Semuels
01/24/2010 (3) California unemployment rate flat--12.4% in December 2009
Alana Semuels
01/24/2010 (3) California home prices up in December; median price $264,000
Alejandro Lazo
01/20/2010 (3) San Diego's mayor was prejudiced when he opposed gay marriage
Maura Dolan
01/20/2010 (3) Local officials say Gov. Schwarzenegger steals money from local services
Dan Walters
01/20/2010 (3) CalPERS' investments underperformed in 2009
Marc Lifsher
01/10/2010 (3) “You don’t have to be in the military to serve and defend your country" says El Cajon Vetnam vet
John Wilkens
01/10/2010 (3) Cell phone ap helps illegals break the law
Ruben Navarrette
01/10/2010 (3) NIMBY-ISM is sweeping the state, again
Thomas Elias
01/10/2010 (3) Study: Legalizing undocumented immigrants would help economy
Anna Gorman
01/10/2010 (3) LA abuses low-wage workers more than New York or Chicago
Patrick J. McDonnell
12/22/2009 (3) Taliban attacks California Guard soldiers
Tony Perry
12/22/2009 (3) State university fee hikes a test many families can't pass
Carla Rivera
12/22/2009 (3) California's excessive borrowing needs a reality check
George Skelton
12/22/2009 (3) Unemployment in California's down slightly
Alana Semuels
12/11/2009 (3) Default notices rising in upper echelon an Francisco Bay Area communities
Carolyn Said
12/11/2009 (3) Truce in California’s water wars?
12/11/2009 (3) State unemployment at 12%; even more underemployed
Tim Rutten
12/11/2009 (3) Californians Mixed On Afghan War Strategy
Rachael Myrow
12/11/2009 (3) Peter Thottam Assembly campaign launches new 2010 website
12/06/2009 (3) Surprse! Surprise! Children closest to heavily traveled roadways suffer more respiratory issues
Kristopher Hanson
12/06/2009 (3) Abel Maldonado: Independent, formidable
Robert Gammon
12/06/2009 (3) Once envy of 49 states, California now measure of failure.
12/06/2009 (3) College cuts hurt us
Thomas D. Elias
12/06/2009 (3) Tuition increases at UC schools and brats at the gates
Ruben Navarrette
12/06/2009 (3) Marijuana Sales in Humboldt County
Mandalit del Barco
12/06/2009 (3) California Officials Target Big Marijuana Growers
Mandalit del Barco
11/25/2009 (3) San Diego bidget cuts: Neighborhood libraries open fewer hours, messier beaches , 200 city workers get pink slips
Craig Gustafson
11/25/2009 (3) State's debt burden climbs higher
Kevin Yamamura
11/25/2009 (3) California's Water Crisis
Bettina Boxall
11/25/2009 (3) California war `Hero' snared in ribbons of deception
Tom Hennessey
11/25/2009 (3) For California GOP candidates, numbers are a problem
Thomas Elias
11/25/2009 (3) San Francisco's urban roads rated worst in nation
Ina Jaffe
11/25/2009 (3) Long-term structural changes needed in California budget making
George Skelton
11/25/2009 (3) No money or leadership in California
Cathleen Decker
11/18/2009 (3) California's projected deficit ? $21 Billion.
Shane Goldmacher
11/18/2009 (3) Livermore nuclear lab needs environmental cleanup
Ralph Vartabedian
11/18/2009 (3) California hospitals charge database
Phillip Reese
11/18/2009 (3) Homes near Long Beach airport to be insulated for noise
Robert Faturechi
11/18/2009 (3) The next Arnold?
Dan Schnur
11/06/2009 (3) High school gang bang rape victim says violence 'always the wrong choice'
Kevin Fagan, Henry K. Lee,
11/06/2009 (3) California Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Honored
Horace Coleman
11/06/2009 (3) Cracks in the Future (the decline of higher education)
Bob Herbert
11/06/2009 (3) Chandra Levy's killer gets life sentence
10/23/2009 (3) California alleges fraud against state's largest pension funds, sues State Street Bank and Trust
Marc Lifsher
10/23/2009 (3) Whitman's cash ($19M to date) keeps her campaigtn alive
10/23/2009 (3) Undocumented Scholars Learn How To Pay for School
Rosa Ramirez
10/23/2009 (3) .Conservative and liberal California U.S Representatives agree: No troop increase in Afghanistan
Richard Simon
10/23/2009 (3) Unemployment in California goes up again
Alana Semuels
10/14/2009 (3) A lecture for immigrants / For native-born, 10 lessons
Ruben Navarrette
10/14/2009 (3) O.C. Fairgrounds to be sold
Ellyn Pak
10/14/2009 (3) Not voting may hurt GOP's CEO candidates
John Marelius
10/14/2009 (3) State tax overhaul plan causes fierce debate
Daniel Weintraub
10/14/2009 (3) Californians not satisfied with state government
Cathleen Decker
10/07/2009 (3) Sharp rise in Chinese arrests at U.S. border
Sebastian Rotella
10/07/2009 (3) Meg Whitman's arrogance
George Skelton
10/07/2009 (3) Local Marines to see duties expand in Afghanistan
Jeanette Steele
10/07/2009 (3) 40 Years Later, Clash Between Black Panthers, Santa Ana P.D. Influences OC Life
Gustavo Arellano, Gabriel San Roman
10/07/2009 (3) State Supreme Court leaves intact lower court's ruling that could leave cash-strapped California on hook for $3.6B
09/30/2009 (3) “We call this cancer alley” -- Eco-warriors in their own neighborhoods
Margot Roosevelt
09/30/2009 (3) Meg Whitman: New voter; new Republican
Dan Walters
09/30/2009 (3) Dalai Lama draws thousands to Long Beach
David Medzerian
09/30/2009 (3) Boeing's C-17: The Air Fore has enough; no other buyers?
Kristopher Hanson
09/21/2009 (3) Marijuana growers from Mexican operate boldly in California
Peter Hecht
09/21/2009 (3) New post WWII record for California unemployment: 12.2 % in August:
Alana Semuels
09/21/2009 (3) Wilmington struggling with slowdown at ports
Ronald D. White
09/21/2009 (3) Federal charges dropped against Hmong leader Vang Pao / Charges dropped against Laotian hero
Eric Bailey; My-Thuan Tran / Tracie Cone
09/08/2009 (3) The Ritual of Patriotism
Horace Coleman
09/08/2009 (3) Why does Chapman University cost more than Yale, Caltech?
Gary Robbins
09/08/2009 (3) Gunman in Calif. Jewish center attack says he's sorry / JCC shooter Furrow renounces past beliefs / Convicted murderer Furrow says mind full of sickness
/ Kevin Modesti,
08/31/2009 (3) Nevada's senseless war on California
Ethan Rarick
08/31/2009 (3) State's Capitol dysfunction: Can it be fixed?
Dan Walters
08/31/2009 (3) A state constitutional convention could cause problems
Thomas D. Elias
08/31/2009 (3) Veterans groups urge VA speed up of disability claims and appeals
Carol J. Williams
08/31/2009 (3) Governor, Legislature, under pressure to solve explosive prison problem
George Skelton
08/31/2009 (3) Legislators attempt to create independent body on restoration, upgrade, Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
George Skelton
08/31/2009 (3) Los Angeles and Long Beach poorts use cutting-edge technology to reduce emissions and fuel consumption
Ronald D. White
08/24/2009 (3) Find unemployment figures for your city
08/24/2009 (3) Long Beach unemployment (July 09) at 13.7%
Kristopher Hanson
08/24/2009 (3) California unemployment now 11.9 percent
Tom Abate
08/24/2009 (3) California unemployment hits post-World War II high
Alana Semuels
08/24/2009 (3) Marijuana Growers Thrive In California Forests
Jesse Mckinley
08/15/2009 (3) Prison officials had warning disturbance likely in Chino
Carol J. Williams, Nicole Santa Cruz
08/15/2009 (3) Chino Has Troubled Past
Solomon Moore
08/09/2009 (3) Put private money where our public cuts are
Steve Lopez
08/09/2009 (3) Hostage house in Compton example of increasing dangers for illegal immigrants
Hector Tobar
08/09/2009 (3) Immigrants who flocked to Inland Empire hard-hit by economic downturn
Anna Gorman , Rich Connell
08/09/2009 (3) Chinese immigrants; 'Paper sons,' hidden pasts
Lisa See
08/01/2009 (3) Pundits on the California budget
08/01/2009 (3) State budget finally signed
Steve Wiegand
08/01/2009 (3) Governator signs budget; cuts $500 million
Michael Rothfeld , Shane Goldmacher
08/01/2009 (3) Suits for wrongful deportation by ICE rise
Tyche Hendricks
08/01/2009 (3) Latino jobless rate soars; unemployment rate higher than other ethnic groups
Rich Connell
07/19/2009 (3) California and Texas can learn from each other
07/19/2009 (3) As state’s finances disintegrate, so does the California Dream
The Economist
07/19/2009 (3) Promise and Peril in South LA
Scott Gold
07/11/2009 (3) How to tell things are really bad: Tourism is L.A. County's No. 1 job generator
Hugo Martín
07/11/2009 (3) Six things crippled California. Prop. 13 and term limits are two of them.
Jerry Roberts, Phil Trounstine
07/11/2009 (3) Home reposessions soar as Sacramento real estate sales slump
Jim Wasserman
07/11/2009 (3) Carly Fiorina seems to be prepping for senatorial race with Barbara Boxer
Michael Finnegan
07/11/2009 (3) California's Governor race: the Campbell factor
Thomas D. Elias
07/04/2009 (3) State's most conservative county (Modoc) gets more state taxpayer dollars per capita than all but one other CA county
Kevin Fagan
07/04/2009 (3) California's death row will cost state $1 billion for next five years
Tim Rutten
07/04/2009 (3) Rep. Henry Waxman: How Congress Really Works
Tim Rutten
06/28/2009 (3) Governator says his way or the highway
Michael Rothfeld, Evan Halper
06/28/2009 (3) Grape pickers' pay is $8 -$9 an hour, less than 40 years ago (adjusted for inflation)
Mike Anton
06/28/2009 (3) Stars and Stripes flown upside down at LA VA Medical Center by vets group
Bob Pool
06/28/2009 (3) California budget fights caused by lack of trust in legislature
Thomas Elias
06/20/2009 (3) Why California's buy guns
Steve Lopez
06/20/2009 (3) 11.5% unemployed in California; U.S. average 9.4%
Tom Abate
06/20/2009 (3) Avoid an ugly California tax surprise
Claudia Buck
06/20/2009 (3) Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury raising money for California libraries
Jennifer Steinhauer
06/13/2009 (3) Voters angry; want legislatorsto solve the fiscal problem, now!
George Skelton
06/13/2009 (3) "Reckoning Day" in California
Editorial
06/13/2009 (3) Proposal for fiscal misery: Hurt in Brentwood and beyond
Steve Lopez
06/08/2009 (3) Latina lawyer learned law at Harvard, wisdom in Compton
Hector Tobar
06/08/2009 (3) New bill about agricultural workers
Thomas D. Elias
06/08/2009 (3) Dump state programs (and learn why they're needed)
Thomas Elias
06/08/2009 (3) California forests hold one answer to climate change
Margot Roosevelt
06/01/2009 (3) California dairy farmers in desperate straits
Jerry Hirsch
06/01/2009 (3) Deeper budget cuts hit schools and California's neediest
Michael Rothfeld, Eric Bailey
05/26/2009 (3) In Compton, Killing of Star High School Football Player
Eric Sondheimer and Martha Groves
05/23/2009 (3) "Education Mayor" Villaraigosa gets a failing grade
Steve Lopez
05/23/2009 (3) L.A.-based Latino gang wages racist campaign against blacks
05/23/2009 (3) Solving latest budget crisis doesn't solve underlying disease
Jim Sanders
05/23/2009 (3) Governator says he will not support hiking taxes
Jim Sanders
05/23/2009 (3) State's Legislative Analyst says budget borrowing bad idea
Jim Sanders, Steve Wiegand
05/16/2009 (3) Governor may release 38,000 prisoners if budget ballot measures fail
Andy Furillo
05/16/2009 (3) The Governator and California's Budget
Steve Wiegand
05/16/2009 (3) California's fiscal crisis about to hit home
D.J. Waldie
05/16/2009 (3) SEC staff files civil fraud charges against Mozilo of Countrywide
E. Scott Reckard and William Heisel
05/11/2009 (3) Soldiering on in Pasadena: Winter Soldier Southwest, Iraq and Afghanistan
Horace Coleman
05/08/2009 (3) California Museum Exhibit about Agent Orange
05/08/2009 (3) California's highest city employee pension goes to indicted ex-official from Vernon: $500,000 a year
Hector Becerra, Rich Connell
04/26/2009 (3) More state services , no tax increases, is`what California voters want
Cathleen Decker
04/26/2009 (3) Moorpark HS (Ventura County) wins its 4th National Academic Decathlon championship
Seema Mehta
04/26/2009 (3) Sen. Boxer, U.S. Reps. Richardson and Rohrabacher, fight to save Boeing's C-17
John Canalis
04/26/2009 (3) What Happened to the Anti-War Movement in Southern California?
Matt Coker
04/26/2009 (3) Orange County to pay $4 million to settle jail-beating lawsuit
Norberto Santana Jr. and Tony Saavedra
04/26/2009 (3) Orange County D.A. says 'code of silence' sank brutality case against deputy
Adam Townsend and Salvador Hernandez
04/19/2009 (3) Daniel B. Wood
California's drought raises rural-urban tensions
04/19/2009 (3) Glendale Galleria Bankrupt / Mall Operator Files Bankruptcy
Sandra M. Jones / David S. Hilzenrath
04/19/2009 (3) Control Components Inc executives charged with bribery
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Jon Cassidy
04/19/2009 (3) Proposition 1A would create a spending cap and rainy day reserve
George Skelton
04/12/2009 (3) Proposition 1C: Choose bad policy or deeper debt
George Skelton
04/04/2009 (3) Los Angeles' crime rate down
Joel Rubin, Andrew Blankstein
04/04/2009 (3) Middle-class recession victims
Molly Hennessy-Fiske
04/04/2009 (3) California's possible unemployment insurance problem
Dan Walters
04/04/2009 (3) Californa's job woes probably wein't be helped by stimulus plan
Dan Walters
04/04/2009 (3) Homeless in Sacramento
Marcos Breton
04/04/2009 (3) Mendota, CA has 41% unemployment
Chris Collins
04/04/2009 (3) State Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth: Soft-spoken, hard-line
George Skelton
03/29/2009 (3) California to Hike Taxes , Cut spending, Despite Federal Stimulus Funds
Eric Bailey
03/29/2009 (3) Camp Pendleton Marines Take a New Approach to Suicide Prevention
Tony Perry
03/29/2009 (3) Six California Banks Ordered by FDIC to Make Changes
E. Scott Reckard
03/29/2009 (3) An Author Peers at Reagan
Bob Thompson
03/29/2009 (3) Some California jobless don't qualify for aid
Molly Hennessy-Fiske
03/22/2009 (3) Joblessness Becomes A Way Of Life In El Centro
Mandalit del Barco
03/22/2009 (3) Long Beach jobless rate passes 12%
Kristopher Hanson
03/22/2009 (3) Sacramento's tent city
Maria L. La Ganga
03/15/2009 (3) California's new budget has $8 billion hole, says legislature's fiscal analyst
Jim Sanders
03/15/2009 (3) Mock funeral procession remembers military in Iraq
Annie Burris
03/15/2009 (3) Orange County and Planned Parenthood
03/15/2009 (3) Orange County supervisors suspend Planned Parenthood grant; cite abortions
Jennifer Muir
03/09/2009 (3) Long Beach's jobless rate reaches nearly 12%
Kristopher Hanson
03/03/2009 (3) State GOP readys its circular firing squad; won't pay to support tax backers
Peter Hecht
03/03/2009 (3) Sen. Abel Maldonado pulls off a political coup
Willie Brown
03/03/2009 (3) The traps of early prisoner release
03/03/2009 (3) California schools struggling
Seema Mehta
02/22/2009 (3) California, Almost Broke, Nears Brink
Jennifer Steinhauer
02/15/2009 (3) Parsons criticized for poor work in Iraq
James Glanz
02/15/2009 (3) Investors 1, taxpayers 0 because of California's low credit rating
Tom Petruno
02/15/2009 (3) Fisher House Foundation helps wounded California veterans
02/15/2009 (3) Requirement for two-thirds vote help California lawmakers wrangle about budget
Daniel B. Wood
02/15/2009 (3) Going to college gets harder
Gale Holland
02/08/2009 (3) California prisons: How to save billions.
Thomas D. Elias
02/08/2009 (3) Juan Rafael Santos: In Memorium
Leslie Radford
02/08/2009 (3) Ronald Reagan one of the top five presidents of 20th century?
02/08/2009 (3) The Passing of Juan Rafael Santos, Champion of Myriad Causes
Emily Spence
02/02/2009 (3) California's outrageous budget delay
02/02/2009 (3) Law suit wants Yes on 8 campaign contributors hidden
Tom Elias
02/02/2009 (3) Governator talks about waste but can't find much
George Skelton
02/02/2009 (3) California unemployment rate jumps to 9.3% in December
Marc Lifsher, Nathan Olivarez-Giles
01/25/2009 (3) Two jurors in Sherrif Carona's trial complained about intimidation
Christine Hanley
01/24/2009 (3) Can Schwarzenegger learn from Obama's share-the-pain message?
George Skelton
01/24/2009 (3) California budget cuts that are all wrong
Thomas D. Elias
01/24/2009 (3) Ex-legislators and aides get cushy jobs thanks to the Governator
Patrick McGreevy
01/24/2009 (3) Transcript: Rev. Rick Warren's inagural invocation
Pastor Rick Warren
01/24/2009 (3) Review of Saddleback pastor Rick Warren's inagural invocation
Lisa Miller
01/18/2009 (3) California's Republican kamikazes
Peter Schrag
01/18/2009 (3) UC schools discuss admitting more non-Californians
Larry Gordon
01/18/2009 (3) Anti-gang workers tempted into old lifestyle
Andrew Blankstein, Richard Winton
01/18/2009 (3) Schwarzenegger's legacy
Michael Rothfeld
01/18/2009 (3) California's education tax
Dan Walters
01/11/2009 (3) Wealthiest Californians would be all right in Schwarzenegger's plan to cut services, hike taxes
Michael Hiltzik
01/11/2009 (3) Obama "steals" Leon Panetta from California
George Skelton
01/11/2009 (3) California's Fiscal Earthquake
Kristin Kloberdanz
01/11/2009 (3) State law granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants to be ruled on
Anna Gorman
01/06/2009 (3) Treasury Department investigates City National Bank's bailout
Ralph Vartabedian
01/06/2009 (3) Fighing California wildfires cost $1B+
Bettina Boxall
12/30/2008 (3) More people moving out of California than into it
David Pierson
12/30/2008 (3) Unions sue Schwarzenegger over mandatory days off
Jordan Rau
12/30/2008 (3) Pastor Rick Warren's Christmas Eve sermon focuses ion . . .
Duke Helfand, Raja Abdulrahim
12/30/2008 (3) Rick Warren talks to Muslim group, emphasizes need for common ground
Raja Abdulrahim
12/30/2008 (3) A Henry Waxman interview
Deborah Solomon
12/23/2008 (3) California unemployment rate, 8.4%, nation’s 3rd highest
Tom Abate
12/23/2008 (3) What will Rick Warren's prayer say? What should it say?
David Walters
12/23/2008 (3) Obama defends Saddleback pastor Rick Warren for inauguration
Erika I. Ritchie and Dena Bunis
12/15/2008 (3) State's fiscal crisis deepens daily as legislators dally
George Skelton
12/15/2008 (3) Orange County expects $84-million budget gap
Stuart Pfeifer
12/15/2008 (3) 800 may lose jobs at O.C. Social Services Agenc
Norberta Santana Jr.
12/15/2008 (3) California Air Resources Board adopts sweeping air plan
Jim Downing
12/15/2008 (3) Budget talks with Schwarzenegger dead, GOP leader says
Kevin Yamamura
12/10/2008 (3) Money for school meals low in California
Mary MacVean
12/10/2008 (3) Mortgage foreclosures highest in California, Florida
E. Scott Reckard
12/10/2008 (3) California's affordable higher edcation undercut by housing, living costs
Gale Hollandf
12/10/2008 (3) California troops head for Persian Gulf
Tony Perry
12/10/2008 (3) State may face not have enough college trained workers
Public Policy Institute of California; Marc Lifsher
12/10/2008 (3) Does Faban Nuñez's son have a gang link?
Tony Perry
12/10/2008 (3) Ex-state Assembly Speaker's son held in collegian's death
Pauline Repard
11/30/2008 (3) California students recruited by out-of-state colleges
Larry Gordon
11/30/2008 (3) Last-ditch effort fails to pass state budget
Jim Sanders
11/30/2008 (3) Parents in Claremont argue about kindergarteners' Thanksgiving costumes
Seema Mehta
11/30/2008 (3) Disaster and Resilience
Jeannine Stein
11/27/2008 (3) Blessed Thanksgiving to All
Dr. Sam Hamod
11/22/2008 (3) Traditional Veterans Day Parade(rs) vs. Pro Peace Vets in Long Beach
Horace Coleman
11/22/2008 (3) Car registration fees might triple under state budget deal
Evan Halper
11/22/2008 (3) Rep. Henry Waxman chairman of energy committee
Janet Hook, Richard Simon
11/22/2008 (3) Mental health bed shorages in L.A. County
Molly Hennessy-Fiske
11/22/2008 (3) California's seniors health is deteriorating
Rong-Gong Lin
11/22/2008 (3) Prop 8 Scale Tipped by Mormons
Jesse Mckinley and Kirk Johnson
11/22/2008 (3) Mattel eliminates 1,000 jobs, 170 at El Segundo headquarters
David Colker
11/22/2008 (3) Convicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens loses re-election
Sean Cockerham
11/16/2008 (3) Local Vets of Earlier Wars Know What New Iraq and Afghanistan PTSD Sufferers Are In For
Nick Schou
11/16/2008 (3) Ron Kovic's War on War
Nick Schou
11/16/2008 (3) CalPERS' housing portfolio loses 35% in a year
Marc Lifsher
11/11/2008 (3) War Wounded Helped by Surgery Done at UCLA
Tony Perry
11/11/2008 (3) Goodbye 30-day rehab! Longer may be better.
Shari Roan
11/11/2008 (3) Proposition overload
Robert M. Stern, Tracy Westen
11/03/2008 (3) Billionaires put their agendas to a vote
Evan Halper
11/03/2008 (3) Another tour in Iraq, another tearful goodbye for Marines
Tony Perry
10/26/2008 (3) More sexually aggressive behavior among students reported
Carla Rivera
10/26/2008 (3) Sour economy hits California Lottery
Patrick McGreevy
10/19/2008 (3) Is JROTC a leadership course or a recruiting tool? San Francisco to vote on prorgam.
Ben Arnoldy and Gordon Lubold
10/19/2008 (3) Voters duped into registering as Republicans
Evan Halper and Michael Rothfeld
10/19/2008 (3) LAPD flunks fingerprinting / Police Commission chief wants fingerprint lab errors investigated
Tim Rutten / Richard Winton
10/19/2008 (3) L.A. public transit faces cuts after AIG demise
10/04/2008 (3) Prosecutor to probe U.S. attorneys' firings; Carol Lam's firing discussed
Laurie Kellman, Mark Sherman
10/04/2008 (3) The current economy: Flashbacks of the Great Depression?
Al Martinez
10/04/2008 (3) Key figure in Randy "Duke" Cunningham bribery scandal, former top CIA director, pleads guilty
Debbi Baker
09/28/2008 (3) Mother who drove young gangbangers to a killing, charged with first degree murder
Tracy Manzer
09/21/2008 (3) Current and former Ralph's executives and managers indicted for hiring locked-out workers during strike
Jerry Hirsch and Andrea Chang
09/18/2008 (3) California's deceptive Proposition 4
Francesca Ratner
09/18/2008 (3) From a Chevy's trunk to a home in Orange County
Gustavo Arellano
09/18/2008 (3) Bilbray shuns activist veterans
Rep. Brian Bilbray shuns activist veterans
09/10/2008 (3) Young war widows grieve on a Southern California beach
Paloma Esquivel
09/10/2008 (3) California's community colleges classes swell
Tony Barboza and Gale Holland
09/10/2008 (3) U.S. home foreclosures hit record level, boosted by California
E. Scott Reckard
09/10/2008 (3) Only 48% of California high schools meet federal standards, even with easier measure
Howard Blume and Ben Welsh
09/10/2008 (3) Illegal immigrants returning after deportation commit crimes
Anna Gorman
09/10/2008 (3) Prison guards move to recall Schwarzenegger
Matthew Yi
09/10/2008 (3) California leads the (wrong way): Only state that gives no educational benefit to National Guard members
Nancy Vogel
09/10/2008 (3) How not to run a prison system, as demonstrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Golden State
James Sterngold
09/10/2008 (3) How not to run a prison system, as demonstrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Golden State
James Sterngold
09/10/2008 (3) California's missing Reagan Republicans. Old-school Republicans sorely needed to take on the budget mess.
09/10/2008 (3) L.A.'s biggest gangs have gone international; U.S. law enforcement must do the same.
Rocky Delgadillo
09/10/2008 (3) After Obama-McCain forum, a Rick Warren sermon focuses on character
My-Thuan Tran
09/10/2008 (3) San Onofre nuclear plant last in worker safety, behind in power production and backup safety systems
Elizabeth Douglass
09/10/2008 (3) Republican lawmakers kill California budget proposal
Republican lawmakers kill California budget proposal
09/10/2008 (3) Republican lawmakers kill California budget proposal
Republican lawmakers kill California budget proposal
09/03/2008 (3) Law changed for California veteran who lost brothers in Iraq
Cynthia Dizikes
09/03/2008 (3) U.S. bankruptcy filings rise 28.9%; largest increase, 60.9%, in California, Arizona and Nevada
09/03/2008 (3) Boeing aims to keep C-17 line in Long Beach running
Peter Pae
09/03/2008 (3) Bid to break state budget impasse falls short
Evan Halper and Patrick McGreevy
09/03/2008 (3) Republicans propose borrowing, cuts to balance California budget
Evan Halper and Patrick McGreevy
09/03/2008 (3) What goes unpaid when the state’s budget isn’t done?
09/03/2008 (3) California enters uncharted territory without a budget
Evan Halper
08/18/2008 (3) McCain and Obama civil, not too revealing at church forum
Doug Irving, Coirtney Perkes, Alejandra Molina
08/18/2008 (3) The Obama-McCain Faith Forum
Katharine Q. Seelye, John M. Broder
08/18/2008 (3) Transcruipts of Obama / McCain interviews with Rev. Rick Warren
Rev. Rick Warren
08/18/2008 (3) UC Irvine paid by Army to try to read people’s minds
Gary Robbins
08/18/2008 (3) Is Jessica's Law hospitalizing more post-prison sex offenders?
Charles Piller, Lee Romney
08/18/2008 (3) L.A. Unified college prep program does little in three years
Jason Song
08/18/2008 (3) Just cutting won't balance budget says GOP leader
Ed Mendel
08/18/2008 (3) Proposal closing Long Beach's main library causes resentment
Louis Sahagun
08/09/2008 (3) Home-schooling parents don't need teaching credentials
Seema Mehta
08/09/2008 (3) SEIU local leader's kin and related charity got sweetheart contracts
Paul Pringle
08/09/2008 (3) GOP leader: Deficits leave state budget so large closing gap with cuts alone unworkable.
Ed Mendel
08/09/2008 (3) Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on ballot
John Wildermuth
08/09/2008 (3) Setback for opponents of gay marriage: Judge's ruling lets stand ballot wording that says Proposition 8 eliminates right of same-sex couples to marry.
Aurelio Rojas
08/09/2008 (3) California workers' compensation enforcers widen focus on employers; employer fraud is institutionalized and systematic.
Marc Lifsher
08/09/2008 (3) John McCain returns some California donors' money
Dan Morain, Christian Berthelsen
08/09/2008 (3) Three Southern California hospitals accused of using homeless for fraud
Cara Mia DiMassa
08/09/2008 (3) San Fernando Valley group educates about land mines, removes them from conflict areas
Douglas Morino
08/05/2008 (3) Did a preacher turn embezzler / murderer?
Peter H. King
08/04/2008 (3) What's the difference between watching the legislature and seeing sausage made?
George Skelton
08/04/2008 (3) SEIU local argues governor illegally ignored employees' termination process
Michael Rothfeld, Susannah Rosenblatt
08/02/2008 (3) Parsons Corps. Made Little Progress on Iraq Projects
Dana Hedgpeth, Amit R. Paley
08/02/2008 (3) California's jobless benefits agency rocks=ed by turmoil
Patrick McGreevy
08/02/2008 (3) Pasadena based Parsons Corp. Wasted Millions in Iraq
Tony Capaccio
08/02/2008 (3) IndyMac Bancorp files for bankruptcy after seizure
E. Scott Reckard
07/27/2008 (3) 'Sanctuary city' no haven for San Francisco family's grief
Maria L. LaGanga s
07/26/2008 (3) IndyMac's crisis not unique. Boom and bust is the American way.
Jane Kamensky
07/26/2008 (3) Illegal immigrant gangbanger kills 3 in road rage incident
Jaxon Van Derbeken
07/26/2008 (3) Record home losses in California
Peter Y. Hong, Richard Simon
07/26/2008 (3) Colttrupt ex-Congressman Randy 'Duke' Cunningham seeks clemency
07/26/2008 (3) Distressed mortgages slow San Diego economy
Emmet Pierce
07/26/2008 (3) Do the math, Republicans: Rise of independent California voters boosts GOP moderates.
Greg Lucas
07/26/2008 (3) California's water crisis : The end of the state as we know it?
Cary Lowe
07/26/2008 (3) Record number of California homeowners default on mortgages in 2nd quarter
Peter Y. Hong
07/26/2008 (3) California voters can't handle the truth
George Skelton
07/26/2008 (3) FBI probes possible home-loan fraud at IndyMac
Lara Jakes Jordan
07/16/2008 (3) Attorney General Sues Cement Plant For Emitting Cancer Causing Pollution
07/16/2008 (3) Air Quality board to keep monitoring cement plant in Riverside County
07/16/2008 (3) More illegal immigrant detainees expected by San Francisco's juvenile hall
Heather Knight
07/16/2008 (3) San Francisco's mayor changes policy on illegal offenders
Jaxon Van Derbeken
07/16/2008 (3) San Bernardino County may sue San Francisco about convict 'dumping'
David Kelly, Maria L. LaGanga
07/04/2008 (3) San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano in a push against gang violence
H.G. Reza
06/29/2008 (3) California's attorney general sues Countrywide Financial / Highlights from California's complaint against Countrywide
E. Scott Reckard
06/29/2008 (3) Chapman University forecasters say U.S. in recession; California suffering as housing crisis trickles down to job market.
Conor L. Sanchez
06/29/2008 (3) L.A.'s big drug test (sewage analysis): Los Angeles County has more cocaine in its sewage than several major European cities.
Marla Cone
06/29/2008 (3) L.A. County jails expand immigration screening
Anna Gorman
06/29/2008 (3) Climate change threatens 2/3 of California's unique plants
Margot Roosevelt
06/29/2008 (3) New OC Sherriff Sworn In / Fatal Shooting Affected Sandra Hutchens' Career
Peggy Lowe / Stuart Pfeifer and Christine Hanley
06/24/2008 (3) GOP correctly identified budget problem but their solution is wrong.
06/24/2008 (3) Saving California's budget: Betting on the lottery.
Joe Mathews
06/24/2008 (3) Saving California's budget: Betting on the lottery.
Joe Mathews
06/24/2008 (3) National editorial pages on California's same-sex marriages
Maggie Gallagher and Joshua Baker
06/24/2008 (3) Beating drought with cloud-seeding program is LA County's hope
Deborah Schoch
06/24/2008 (3) Gay Marriage: The New 'I Do'
Joe Mathews
06/24/2008 (3) Iraq KIA: Army Staff Sgt. Bryan Bolander, 26, Huntington Beach
Christian Berthelsen
06/17/2008 (3) Same sex marriage: Some gays ask themselves 'I do?'
Mary Engel
06/17/2008 (3) California's choice: Be Sweden or Mississippi?
William Voegeli
06/17/2008 (3) Regarding racially motivated gang violence in LA: Sheriff Baca overstates; police Chief Bratton should speak more clearly.
Tim Rutten
06/17/2008 (3) A Segregation Bastion Falls In California: Prisons.
Ben Arnoldy
06/17/2008 (3) Sales tax fades--angst rises
Dan Walters
06/17/2008 (3) Paying for California: How four prominent previous governors dealt wirh budget problems.
Greg Lucas, Ethan Rarick, Jim Newton, Lou Cannon
06/08/2008 (3) The price of “protecting” marriage: Marriage amendment may backfire on GOP
Tim Rutten
06/08/2008 (3) Blackwater training facility gets OK from judge
Tanya Mannes
06/08/2008 (3) Gov. Schwarzenegger declares California is in a drought
Matt Weiser, Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
06/04/2008 (3) California African American Museum exhibit celebrates African American community founded a century ago
Lynell George
06/04/2008 (3) Fantasy 5 is a fantasy fix for state’s budget problem
Michelle Steel
06/04/2008 (3) In L.A., illegal immigrants cope with threat of deportation
Paloma Esquivel
06/04/2008 (3) Overtime boosts many O.C. sheriff's deputies' pay above $100,000. Bulk of department's overtime went to employees at county jails.
Stuart Pfeifer and Christine Hanley
06/04/2008 (3) What should U of C schools be? A preview of what's going into the suggestion box of the university system's new president
06/04/2008 (3) Five members of San Diego-based group charged in foreclosure scam case
Mike Freeman
06/04/2008 (3) A many as 24,000 California deaths a year linked to air pollution
Janet Wilson
06/04/2008 (3) Heal The Bay Report Card on California Beaches' Water Quality Available Online
Heal The Bay
06/04/2008 (3) Governor's lottery-borrowing plan too rosy, state analyst says
Matthew Yi
05/25/2008 (3) IN MEMORIAM: The 492 Californians killed (to date) in Iraq / Afghanistan
05/25/2008 (3) Dozens of immigrants to California among war casualties
Hector Becerra
05/25/2008 (3) California's Iraq / Afghanistan war dead (492) profiled
Tony Perry
05/19/2008 (3) L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. stops training; violations include instructors giving out exam answers..
Richard Winton
05/19/2008 (3) San Diego's civic problems pile up
Randy Dotinga
05/19/2008 (3) Massive drug bust at San Diego State highlights campus' rising drug use
Daniel B. Wood
05/19/2008 (3) The California Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling --and what it won't do
John Cloud
05/19/2008 (3) Blackwater permits cannot be appealed / Blackwater's proposed San Diego training facility draws criticism
Tanya Mannes / By Tony Perry
05/19/2008 (3) Missouri 'Cyber bully' indicted in LA for girl's suicide
Linda Deutsch
05/19/2008 (3) Termed-out Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez leaves post
Nancy Vogel
05/19/2008 (3) New Assembly speaker Karen Bass wants independent look at state's revenue.
Karen Bass
05/19/2008 (3) Salesian Society settles final L.A. Archdiocese priest abuse case for $19.5 million
Richard Winton
05/12/2008 (3) Loan officers made errors Countrywide executive admits
05/12/2008 (3) San Diego S.U. has a large drug bust
Jeff McDonald, Sherry Saavedra and Tanya Sierra
05/12/2008 (3) Vallejo, CA to become largest. city tin state to file for bankruptcy
Jason Dearen
05/06/2008 (3) It's time California brings fairness to its spending on schools.
05/06/2008 (3) Teacher fired for refusing to sign loyalty oath; Cal State system ousts instructor for not signing pledge adopted to root out communists
Richard C. Paddock
05/06/2008 (3) Blackwater Worldwide plans indoor military training facility in San Diego's Otay Mesa
Tanya Mannes
05/06/2008 (3) Dockworkers in LA / Long Beach take May Day off, join idling of West Coast ports
By Louis Sahagun, Ronald D. White
05/06/2008 (3) California water shortage worst in decades
Deborah Schoch
04/28/2008 (3) F-117A stealth fighters ($45M each), "born" in a windowless building in Burbank, being retired
Peter Pae
04/28/2008 (3) Schwarzenegger predicts state deficit will top $10 billion / Schwarzenegger says deficit worsening
Kevin Yamamura
04/28/2008 (3) Gov. Schwarzenegger pressing state regulators to allow power line proposed through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Michael Rothfeld
04/26/2008 (3) California Pays Rising Price For Prison Growth
Daniel B. Wood
04/26/2008 (3) To be less-scary, GOP brand needs to 'CRAFTed'
George Skelton
04/22/2008 (3) Cement plant in Riverside area not meeting 19 conditions, AQMD says
Doug Begley
04/22/2008 (3) Concrete company orderedby AQMD to study health risks of cement dust
David Danelski
04/22/2008 (3) Home repossessions in Sacramento reach record high
Jim Wasserman
04/20/2008 (3) Orange County Deputy (a jailer) may have had a pattern of abuse tactics
Rachanee Srisavasdi
04/20/2008 (3) Cutting education while stumping for political reforms is a no-win strategy. Why hasn't the governator figured that out?
Joe Mathews
04/20/2008 (3) Orange County Deputy who broke grand jury rules fired, violated orders not to share her testimony
Tony Saavedra, Amy Taxin
04/20/2008 (3) California foreclosure filings up 106% in March from a year ago; foreclosure glut depresses housing prices.
Peter Y. Hong
04/20/2008 (3) Ex Sheriff Carona's lawyers seek change of venue
Larry Welborn
04/20/2008 (3) Long Beach man convicted of failed Cambodian coup attempt
04/12/2008 (3) Schwarzenegger declares emergency adter closure of salmon fishing
Matt Weiser
04/12/2008 (3) EDS computers hanging up on people seekig unemployment benefit s
Marc Lifsher
04/12/2008 (3) California economy gained 25,800 jobs in February
04/12/2008 (3) Thousands honor '68 walkouts by Mexican American students
Louis Sahagun
04/12/2008 (3) Acting OC sheriff wants probe into civil-rights violations. Supervisor says report shows 'clear case of human failure.'
Peggy Lowe
04/06/2008 (3) South L.A.'s violent streak
Scott Gold
04/06/2008 (3) The Governator's Inconsistencies
Michael Rothfeld
03/30/2008 (3) Opposition to Calif. tailpipe limits comes from surprising corner: The state's own congressional Republicans.
Richard Simon
03/30/2008 (3) Killers who set man on fire in East L.A. know fear silences witnesses
Jill Leovy
03/30/2008 (3) Gutsy move by another GOP governor needed on budget
George Skelton
03/30/2008 (3) Sacramento: no country for bold men. Why do state pols duck hard decisions about taxes and spending?
William Voegeli
03/30/2008 (3) Will state pension funds create a new bond insurer?
Anastasija Johnson
03/30/2008 (3) John McCain stresses cooperation in L.A. speech on foreign policy
Maeve Reston and Paul Richter
03/20/2008 (3) Fabian Nuñez built a political machine that will live on in the Assembly.
Anthony York
03/20/2008 (3) U.S. Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of Countrywide
Raymond Hernandez
03/20/2008 (3) Lame duck Assembly Speaker Nuñez still king of the pond
Nancy Vogel
03/20/2008 (3) Republican fires reform arrow into stiff wind of State Senate
George Skelton
03/19/2008 (3) Soldier mother leaves Iraq to bury son killedby LA gang members
Paloma Esquivel, Paul Pringle and Francisco Vara-Orta
03/19/2008 (3) 15 found adrift in boat in smuggling attempt
Jose Luis Jiménez and Dana Littlefield
03/09/2008 (3) State Democrats determined to raise taxes, say school cuts under governor's proposed budget are unacceptable:
Evan Halper
03/09/2008 (3) Gang Memoir, Turning Page, Is Pure Fiction
Motoko bRich
03/08/2008 (3) Schwarzenegger wants to close some 'tax loopholes'
Evan Halper and Molly Hennessy-Fiske
03/01/2008 (3) California's Latinos flexing their political power
Joe Mathews
03/01/2008 (3) Small towns, big gang issues. Law enforcement officials try to crack down on urban problem spread into Central Valley.
Tim Reiterman
03/01/2008 (3) A different kind of home schooling: Teachers work with immigrant parents to help young students. Goal: Prevent future dropouts.
Sam Quinones
03/01/2008 (3) Prison acrimony inescapable? Govenor wants to save money release thousands of prisoners before full sentences served
George Skelton
03/01/2008 (3) Californians, neighbors in Western states, less likely to belong to a formal religion / More in U.S. jump to new faiths
Jennifer Garza
03/01/2008 (3) State fails wrongly convicted prisoners. They face obstacles getting rights restored; compensation is inadequate.
Henry Weinstein
03/01/2008 (3) Health Net ordered to pay $9 million after canceling cancer patient's policy
Lisa Girion
03/01/2008 (3) Sweden or Mississippi? Californians must choose: lower taxes or more services.
William Voegeli
03/01/2008 (3) In closing state budget gap, vast sums are off limits while, basic services are threatened
Evan Halper
03/01/2008 (3) Even Reagan raised taxes!!
Bill Stall
02/23/2008 (3) California prisoners serve time beyond their sentences
Michael Rothfeld
02/23/2008 (3) State budget analyst floats a rival to governor's plan
Judy Lin
02/23/2008 (3) The "sloophole;" a sales tax loophole on luxury items
Amy Chance / Evan Halper
02/23/2008 (3) California's budget gap at $16 billion
Evan Halper
02/23/2008 (3) State budget analyst says Schwarzenegger's budget-balancing approach
Judy Lin / George Skelton
02/23/2008 (3) California's juvenile prison system needs reform
Michael Rothfeld
02/23/2008 (3) Lies Sacramento tells itself: Three myths obscure the unpleasant truth about the state's budget problems.
Mark Paul
02/23/2008 (3) Former Calif. GOP lobbyist had no valid visa or permit during his high-profile career
Lance Williams and Carla Marinucci
02/23/2008 (3) Human medicines affecting hormone levels in fish off Califrornia shore
Kenneth R. Weiss
02/23/2008 (3) Study finds wide disparity in hospital pricing in California: Many with lowest charges are in Southland, as are two of the most expensive.
Lisa Girion
02/16/2008 (3) Sacramento area foreclosures nearly equal home sales in January. 1,815 homes closed escrows; 1,782 foreclosures recorded.
Jim Wasserman and Phillip Reese
02/16/2008 (3) Home loans failing at record rates; foreclosures up 257% over Jan. '07
Emmet Pierce
02/16/2008 (3) Southern California home sales drop to a 20-year low
Peter Y. Hong
02/16/2008 (3) Booby trap on border route near S.D,, could decapitate agents riding all-terrain vehicles.
02/16/2008 (3) Prosecutors blast Poway defense contractor, seek 25-year prison term
Greg Moran
02/10/2008 (3) Transcripts of secret Mike Carona tapes released
Christine Hanley and Stuart Pfeifer
02/10/2008 (3) California produce on Cuban tables?
Will Weissert
02/10/2008 (3) Environmental groups threaten to sue Port of Long Beach about air pollution
Louis Sahagun
02/10/2008 (3) Where blubber meets the road: Elephant seals and CA 1
Catherine Saillant
02/10/2008 (3) Killer whales moving farther south in California
Pete Thomas
02/10/2008 (3) The Pools of Riverside County (and home foreclosures)
Tim Egan
02/10/2008 (3) Coastal Commission rejects Foothill South toll road
Pat Brennan and Ellyn Pak
02/02/2008 (3) Small-business owners owed millions for tax security deposits paid to state.
Michelle Steel
02/02/2008 (3) In California, 2007 fourth quarter home foreclosures surge
Peter Y. Hong , Andrea Chang
02/02/2008 (3) Greg Haidl, 'maestro' of videotaped sexual assault in Orange County, paroled from prison
Larry Welborn
01/27/2008 (3) Former Gov. Gray Davis says California needs a 'rainy day' fund / Gov. Schwarzenegger talks like FDR, but walks more like Scrooge
Gray Davis /
01/26/2008 (3) Jobless rate in California reaches 6.1%
Lisa Girion
01/26/2008 (3) Trucks streaming out of L.A.'s ports are often unsafe
Louis Sahagun
01/26/2008 (3) Countrywide pushes customers with exotic mortgages to traditional ones easier to sell off.
E. Scott Reckard
01/26/2008 (3) Public agencies drop out of Orange County investment pool
Christian Berthelsen
01/26/2008 (3) San Onofre nuclear power plant workers fired, disciplined over safety lapses
Dan Weikel
01/26/2008 (3) Regional panel grades Southern California's economy and quality of life
Ellyn Pak, Pat Brennan, Denisse Salazar, Scott Martindale, Jeff Collins
01/26/2008 (3) Is Gov. Schwarzenegger just another shade of Gray (Davis)?
Steve Lopez
01/26/2008 (3) A really tough year for O.C. housing
Jeff Collins
01/19/2008 (3) Interim Orange County sherrif appointed as Carona bow out of office
Larry Welborn, Peggy Lowe, ,
01/19/2008 (3) Founder of Carl's Jr. restaurants, Carl Karcher, dies
Gwendolyn Driscoll, Tiffany Montgomer, Nancy Luna. Barbara Giasone
01/19/2008 (3) Budget analyst criticizes Schwarzenegger's plan
Evan Halper
01/19/2008 (3) Ambition, reality at odds in gov.'s budget cuts
Evan Halper
01/19/2008 (3) Victim of mauling at San Francisco Zoo said he yelled at tiger
Jaxon Van Derbeken
01/19/2008 (3) In California, Clinton and McCain are presidential primary picks
Cathleen Decker
01/19/2008 (3) Southland health facilities have lowest charges and most expensive
Lisa Girion
01/19/2008 (3) Southern California home sales, prices, down sharply
Peter Y. Hong
01/19/2008 (3) A Califirnia soldier's final homecoming
Paloma Esquivel
01/19/2008 (3) Schwarzenegger still popular with voters
Evan Halper
01/12/2008 (3) Home insurance fee could help state fight blazes in high-risk areas
Sharon Bernstein and Rong-Gong Lin
01/12/2008 (3) Propositions on Feb. 5 ballot let voters decide if tribal casinos can expand slot machine holdings
Patrick McGreevy
01/12/2008 (3) Proposed budget cutbacks will hit hard if governor keeps no-new-taxes pledge
Evan Halper
01/12/2008 (3) Rethinking water usage as effective as huge infrastructure projects.
Peter Gleick
01/12/2008 (3) Prisoners of panic: Media hype, political quick fixes, swell inmate population.
Joe Domanick
01/12/2008 (3) Democratic response to the State of State Adress
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata
01/12/2008 (3) Gov. Schwarzenegger's State of the State address
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
01/12/2008 (3) Litmus test for ballot measures: Three questions before voting yes or no on Feb. 5.
Tim Hodson
01/12/2008 (3) Deep cuts, closures across the state at heart of budget plan
Evan Halper and Jordan Rau
01/05/2008 (3) Navy must cut sonar use off California
Kenneth R. Weiss
01/05/2008 (3) Homicides down, overall crime up in LA county
Richard Winton
01/05/2008 (3) California approves two voting devices
Susannah Rosenblatt
01/05/2008 (3) Sheriff Carona to return to work
Peggy Lowe
01/05/2008 (3) More than 50% of state voters say economy is poor
John Wildermuth
01/05/2008 (3) O.C. sewage soon to be drinking water
Dan Weikel
01/05/2008 (3) Who does the govenor speak for?
Thomas D. Elias
01/05/2008 (3) Top lawyers offer free legal services to Sheriff Carona
Peggy Lowe
01/05/2008 (3) 2007: The legislature's year of doing nothing
Dan Walters
01/05/2008 (3) Surge in Off-Roading Stirs Dust and Debate in West
Felicity Barringer, William Yardley
01/05/2008 (3) State staffers' trip to China draws ire. Critics question ethics of corporate-sponsored travel for governor's entourage.
Michael Rothfeld
12/30/2007 (3) Is the EPA inane or insane about car emissions in California?
Sasha Abramsky
12/30/2007 (3) Bush Faces a Long Legal Battle With California about greenhouse gas emissions from cars
Marianne Lavelle
12/29/2007 (3) Pinch state pennies on a priority basis; Schwarzenegger's 10% across-the-board cut would hit crucial functions and low-priority programs equally hard.
Bob Stone and Rick Cole
12/29/2007 (3) Gasoline may cost $4 a gallon in California in 2008
Ronald D. White
12/29/2007 (3) The mistress, the wife and the O.C. sheriff
Garrett Therolf, Stuart Pfeifer and Christine Hanley
12/29/2007 (3) Sheriff Carona hires top criminal attorneys who will represent him for free
Peggy Lowe
12/29/2007 (3) State's prison budget soars; spending climbed 79% since '03.
Jordan Rau
12/22/2007 (3) How to stop California's red ink flow? Try fiscal triage.
George Skelton
12/22/2007 (3) Vietnamese Americans leave Southern California for Houston
My-Thuan Tran
12/22/2007 (3) More people leave California than move in
Sharon Bernstein and Paloma Esquivel
12/22/2007 (3) Home sales in Southland plunge 43%
Peter Y. Hong
12/22/2007 (3) San Diego real estate sales: Bigger boom, bigger bust?
Rich Toscano
12/22/2007 (3) Illegal immigrant smuggling; 15 boats intercepted / abandoned on San Diego coastline in 7 months
Will Carless
12/22/2007 (3) Long Beach water ban dripping with success
Deborah Schoch
12/22/2007 (3) Long Beach port approves $35-$70 cargo fee
Kristopher Hanson
12/16/2007 (3) Colorado River water deal reached. A shortage could be declared as early as 2010.
Bettina Boxall and Ashley Powers
12/15/2007 (3) Orange Counhy Sheriff Mike Corona can take paid leave
Peggy Lowe
12/15/2007 (3) Assembly Speaker Nunez criticized for lavish spending; Democratic Party buys his wine for $90 a bottle
Nancy Vogel
12/15/2007 (3) State accuses Blue Shield of illegal cancellations
Lisa Girion
12/15/2007 (3) State's budget shortfall widens; could be $14 billion.
Jordan Rau
12/15/2007 (3) State miscalculations could result in earlier prison release
Michael Rothfeld
12/15/2007 (3) Millions wasted by workers' comp company
Marc Lifsher
12/15/2007 (3) Luxury trips of Gov. Schwarzenegger, paid by a nonprofit organization, itemized vaguely
Paul Pringle
12/15/2007 (3) Some San Joaquin Episcopal churches not joining diocese's split.
Rebecca Trounson
12/15/2007 (3) LA's Air pollution hardest on kids. The closer to a freeway they live, play or attend school, the more likely developing lungs' capacity reduced.
Erin Cline Davis
12/09/2007 (3) Republican-backed initiative favoring California GOP's presidential nominee won' t be on ballot
Dan Morain
12/09/2007 (3) Immigration debate unifies California GOP
Phil Willon
12/09/2007 (3) Two decades after 7 clerics had sex with her, one fathering her child, woman gets $500,000 from L.A. Archdiocese
Susannah Rosenblatt
12/09/2007 (3) California politicians should verify doing government business when using campaign funds
Nancy Vogel and Patrick McGreevy
12/09/2007 (3) Local governments fear state's budget axe, raid on their funds
12/09/2007 (3) Orane County Sheriff Carona was 'get out of jail free' card for wealthy sheriff's aide Don Haidl
Paul Pringle and Christine Hanley
12/05/2007 (3) Easy fixes got us into state's budget mess
John Laird
12/05/2007 (3) Immigrants' children grow fluent in English
Anna Gorman
12/05/2007 (3) Record-setting storm triggers mudslides and flooded backcountry roads in San Diego County
Kristina Davis and Sherry Saavedra
12/05/2007 (3) Storms bring mudslides to fire areas in Orange and San Diego Counties
Janet Wilson and Hector Becerra / Jeff McDonald
12/05/2007 (3) San Diego County Wildfires: Sen. Feinstein criticizes region's fire planning / Says San Diego should increase fire department funding
Tony Manolatos / Tony Perry
12/01/2007 (3) Who Can / Can't March in a Veterans Day Parade?
Jan Allan Rhuman
11/25/2007 (3) Fire destroys 49 homes in Malibu; blaze, the city's most destructive in 15 year.
Bettina Boxall, Jason Song and Matt Lait
11/25/2007 (3) Fire crews in Malibu Bowl area besieged by flames. Clearing brush didn't protect them.
Bettina Boxall
11/25/2007 (3) Firefighters gain on Malibu blaze; officials optimistic as winds die down.
Rebecca Trounson, Bettina Boxall and Jason Song
11/25/2007 (3) Cal State Long Beach grad student makes art out of human powered commuting
Rebecca Trounson
11/25/2007 (3) Radiation detection not an easy task at ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach
Ralph Vartabedian
11/25/2007 (3) California's high court seeks death penalty fix; transferring case review to lower courts considered.
Henry Weinstein
11/25/2007 (3) America's most dangerous and safest cities: Five California cities in 25 safest, three in 25 most dangerous.
Jennifer Delson
11/25/2007 (3) Teachers vs. teachers on February 5 ballot
Shane Goldmacher
11/25/2007 (3) State lost few jobs from businesses relocating to other states
11/25/2007 (3) San Diego Groups protest Countrywide actions; urge help for borrowers at risk of foreclosure.
11/18/2007 (3) Ruling restores sonar ban off coast; Navy told to devise new safeguards for marine mammals.
Kenneth R. Weiss
11/18/2007 (3) U.S. News & World Report Names Schwarzenegger One of America's Best Leaders in 2007
Kenneth T. Walsh
11/18/2007 (3) Meteorologists use micro climates as a wildfire forecasting tool
Mike Anton
11/18/2007 (3) Jesse Unruh: California's unorthodox civil rights pioneer.
Bill Boyarsky
11/18/2007 (3) Cost of oil felt beyond pump: Gasoline could soon top $3.50 a gallon in California.
Elizabeth Douglass and Ronald D. White
11/18/2007 (3) A hillside view is lovely but what about landslide insurance?
Jane Hulse
11/18/2007 (3) Oc County Sheriff Carona's leave should be permanent
11/18/2007 (3) Health insurer tied bonuses to dropping sick policyholders
Lisa Girion
11/12/2007 (3) LAPD to build data on Muslim areas / Protest Greets Police Plan to Map Muslim Angelenos
Richard Winton, Jean-Paul Renaud and Paul Pringle / Neil MacTarquhar
11/08/2007 (3) Defense contractor involved in Duke Cuningham bribery scandal convicted on 13 counts
Greg , Angelica Martinez and Greg Gross
11/08/2007 (3) Orange County Sheriff Carona takes paid leave
Christine Hanley, David Reyes and H.G. Reza
11/08/2007 (3) A mixed bag of news for State Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez
Dan Walters
11/08/2007 (3) Governor planning 10 percent budget cut; revenue shortfall may set up a conflict on Prop. 98 spending.
Judy Lin
11/08/2007 (3) Overcrowding pushes California's prison system to the brink
Sasha Abramsky
11/08/2007 (3) Orange County Sheriff says he'll step aside for 60 days after saying he won't resign
Peggy Lowe
11/08/2007 (3) Those Insured will have to negotiate with FEMA for wildfire damage settlements
Mark Walker
11/08/2007 (3) Citizenship applications climb despite fee hike
Teresa Watanabe
11/08/2007 (3) Schwarzenegger orders plan for 10% budget cuts; directive comes amid projections of a growing shortfall
Evan Halper
11/08/2007 (3) Homeowners learn merits of fire-resistant plantings
Deborah Schoch
11/08/2007 (3) Defense contractor denies bribing Cunningham
Allison Hoffman
11/08/2007 (3) Defense contractor denies bribing Cunningham
Allison Hoffman
11/08/2007 (3) FEMA agency staffers played reporters and asked the questions
Al Kamen
11/08/2007 (3) Some San Diego County officials not happy wirth state's bureaucracy
Tony Perry, H.G. Reza and Garrett Therolf
10/31/2007 (3) Sheriff Carona says 'I will be completely vindicated'
Pegfgy Lowe and Larry Welborn
10/31/2007 (3) Sheriff indicted after FBI probe
R. Scott Moxley
10/31/2007 (3) Mexican fire crew joins the fight / California fires exposed the existence of illegal immigrants
Ari B. Bloomektz / Randal C. Archibold and Will Carless
10/31/2007 (3) Two homes, two couples, two fates
Scott Glover, Jack Leonard and Matt Lait
10/31/2007 (3) Shortages added fuel to O.C. fire
William Heisel and Dan Weikel
10/31/2007 (3) San Diego's mayor doesn't come under fire this time
Tony Perry
10/31/2007 (3) New developments mask wild land's deadly threat
Christopher Hawthorne
10/31/2007 (3) Gasoline prices follow oil upward
Ronald D. White
10/31/2007 (3) Sheriff Carona accused of failing to report monetary gifts, asking former deputy to withhold testimony
Christine Hanley, H.G. Reza and Paul Pringle
10/31/2007 (3) Sheriff Carona indicted on public corruption charges
Peggy Lowe and Larry Welborn
10/26/2007 (3) A president half asleep when Katrina hit seems to have learned fromn Katrina
Steve Lopez
10/26/2007 (3) California's Age of Megafires
Daniel B. Wood
10/26/2007 (3) Smarter ways to handle fire: Better policies on growth and fire suppression.
Daniel James Brown
10/26/2007 (3) Former San Diego fire chief repeatedly warned that his city wasn't prepared to handle major fires
Steve Lopez
10/24/2007 (3) Structures burned list for San Diego County
10/19/2007 (3) O.C. government watchdog wants her role to live on
H. G. Reza
10/19/2007 (3) Southland home sales and prices plummet
Peter Y. Hong and Maura Reynolds
10/19/2007 (3) Califiornia poverty line out of touch with cost of living here?
Alana Semuels
10/19/2007 (3) SEC to informally probe Countrywide CEO Mozilo 's stock trades.
Kathy Kristof
10/19/2007 (3) New San Diego facility cares for war's worst wounded
Tony Perry
10/14/2007 (3) O.C. Mortgage Bust Takes Toll: Real estate professionals see drastic job losses.
Dina ElBoghdady
10/08/2007 (3) Diocese of San Diego priests asked to donate month's salary to sexual abuse victims.
Sandi Dolbee
10/08/2007 (3) Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez travels the world in luxury
Nancy Vogel
10/08/2007 (3) Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez travels richly, claims he's middle class
Steve Lopez
10/07/2007 (3) The Cal State system: Ivory towers or gold mines?
By Tyler Dilts
10/07/2007 (3) Blackwater: Not in our backyards
Patt Morrison
10/07/2007 (3) "The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing"
Charles Hawley and David Gordon Smith
10/05/2007 (3) SoCal's other wayward bishop: Tod D. Brown, the Catholic bishop for Orange County
Gustavo Arellano
10/05/2007 (3) Seals' pupping season a wild scene in La Jolla
John Wilkens
09/29/2007 (3) To go green, live closer to work
Margot Roosevelt
09/29/2007 (3) Pasadena church wants IRS apology
Rebecca Trounson
09/29/2007 (3) Upbeat job tally masks trouble
Lisa Girion
09/22/2007 (3) There are deadly medical lapses in the state's prisons
Tim Reiterman
09/22/2007 (3) Why Mattel Apologized to China
Jyoti Thottam
09/22/2007 (3) UC Irvine chancellor says he 'bungled' Chemerinsky firing
Richard C. Paddock and Mike Anton
09/22/2007 (3) Two Buck Chuck takes a bite out of Napa
Two Buck Chuck takes a bite out of Napa
09/16/2007 (3) UCI reportedly working on a deal to rehire Chemerinsky
Garrett Therolf and Maura Dolan
09/16/2007 (3) Furor disrupts plans for UCI school of law; decision to drop Erwin Chemerinsky as dean could delay the 2009 opening.
Garrett Therolf, Rebecca Trounson and Richard C. Paddock
09/15/2007 (3) ConocoPhillips getrsto expand a refinery, California gets money for ewnvironmental projects
Jane Kay
09/15/2007 (3) Schools improve after lawsuit,
Carla Rivera
09/15/2007 (3) More than 50% of renters and homebuyers in San Diego county can't afford their housing
09/15/2007 (3) The Fog of Fame (1 of 3): Pat Tillman's deah
Stan Goff
09/15/2007 (3) The Fog of Fame (2 of 3): Pat Tillman's death
Stan Goff
09/15/2007 (3) The Fog of Fame (3 of 3): Pat Tillman's death
Stan Goff
09/15/2007 (3) Proposed athletic center at Berkerly causes protests
Jesse McKinley
09/07/2007 (3) San Diego priest abuse claims settled
Angelica Martinez and Karen Kucher
09/07/2007 (3) Countrywide's message of confidence turned to crisis
Michael A. Hiltzik
09/07/2007 (3) Inside the Countrywide Lending Spree
Gretchen Morgenson
09/07/2007 (3) California homeless program cut; Schwarzenegger kills $55-million .initiative that helps mentally ill
Scott Gold, Lee Romney and Evan Halper
09/07/2007 (3) Increase in inmates opens door to private prisons
Marc Lifsher
09/07/2007 (3) Power plays and payback were real bottom line in state's budget standoff
George Skelton
09/07/2007 (3) Wonder Bread leaving Southern California; Twinkies, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs staying
Jerry Hirsch
09/07/2007 (3) Death in California: Racial, Ethnic Mortality Patterns
Public Policy Institute of California
09/07/2007 (3) Study finds whites outlive blacks; longevity related to ethnicity and gender
Mary Engel
09/07/2007 (3) Blast from the past: How a conflagration at a Colorado coal mine town helped launch a labor / management class war.
Mark S. Luce
09/07/2007 (3) Blood shortage in California grows serious
Mary Engel
08/31/2007 (3) Diversity birthed L.A. More than half its founders were of African ancestry.
John L. Mitchell
08/30/2007 (3) Judge orders San Diego diocese to defend bankruptcy filing
Mark Sauer and Sandi Dolbee / Richard Marosi
08/30/2007 (3) Drug-resistant staph bacteria has spread widely in Northern California
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
08/30/2007 (3) Students teach educators about schools
Duke Helfand
08/30/2007 (3) Resort town of`Borrego Springs braces for an impending water shortage
Alison Williams
08/30/2007 (3) Getting burned at the gas pump
Ralph Vartabedian
08/30/2007 (3) State lost 8,600 jobs in July
Lisa Girion
08/30/2007 (3) Federal appeals jurist says California's heavy backlog and dysfunctional system make capital punishment an illusion
Henry Weinstein
08/24/2007 (3) Voting machine company to be banned in California?
Kim Zetter
08/24/2007 (3) Marie Tillman, Pat Tillman's widow, has a quiet presence
Julia Prodis Sulek
08/24/2007 (3) College in California is a costlier dream
08/24/2007 (3) Nation's No. 1 Home Lender--Countrywide Financial, based in Calabasas--Taps $11.5 Billion Line of Credit
Dina ElBoghdady
08/24/2007 (3) Mattel and Countrywide handle their crises differently
Abigail Goldman and E. Scott Reckard
08/20/2007 (3) A simple-majority vote would end the madness on passing a state budget.
George Skelton
08/17/2007 (3) Student scores level off in state
Joel Rubin and Seema Mehta
08/17/2007 (3) Glendale police seize $10-million marijuana crop
Andrew Blankstein and Tiffany Hsu
08/17/2007 (3) California voters want troops to begin pulling out of Iraq in spring, poll says
Zachary Coile
08/17/2007 (3) School test results released: Students post so-so results
Nanette Asimov
08/17/2007 (3) School test results released: Students post so-so results
Nanette Asimov
08/17/2007 (3) Hope on Climate Change? Here's Why
Michael Gerson
08/17/2007 (3) Rule buried in reauthorized Patriot Act could speed up California executions
Richard B. Schmitt
08/17/2007 (3) 228 bridges at top of state list for repairs
Ari B. Bloomekatz
08/17/2007 (3) Blacks, Latinos claim job bias at Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena
Ashraf Khalil
08/09/2007 (3) Hollywood starts making Bollywood films in India
Anand Giridharadas
08/09/2007 (3) Sacramento: Prime suspect in anti gay hate crime is outside U.S. / Beating death symbolic of local tensions
Crystal Carreon and Dorothy Korber
08/09/2007 (3) Santa Ana: Illegal immigrants form hotline to warn of immigration raids
Kimberly Edds
08/09/2007 (3) Garden Grove: Protesters arrested at Rep. Sanchez's office
Denise Salazar
08/09/2007 (3) Water woes in San Bernadino County desert; state acts to ease problem
Andrew Silva
08/09/2007 (3) Companies say California voting-machine review is unrealistic
Steve Lawrewnce
08/09/2007 (3) Addicted to prisons: California can't deal with social problems by locking up people
Jonathan Simon
08/09/2007 (3) Job fair focuses on abilities, not disabilities, of injured veterans
H.G. Reza
08/01/2007 (3) Retired General Censured in Tillman Case
Richard Gardner and Erica Werner
08/01/2007 (3) Elections officials blast vote-hacking research
Kevin Yamamura
08/01/2007 (3) O.C. supervisor still locked in battle with deputies about pensions
Christian Berthelsen
08/01/2007 (3) California e-voting machines have more holes than Swiss cheese / California Hacks Its E-Voting Machines
Dan Goodin / Barry Levine
08/01/2007 (3) State's Latino population to soar by 2050 / 25 million more Californians by 2050
Harrison Sheppard
08/01/2007 (3) O.C. court to halt traffic ticket processing in Mexico
Martin Wisckol
08/01/2007 (3) O.C. court defends outsourcing of DMV data to Mexico
Peggy Lowe
08/01/2007 (3) California's Real-Estate Tailspin
Sonja Steptoe
08/01/2007 (3) Irvine sues agency over housing mandate / Irvine says state's housing mandate unfair
Erika Chavez
07/27/2007 (3) Tilling the Man
Horace Coleman
07/27/2007 (3) Pat Tillman's death: Army medical examiners were suspicious about close proximity of three bullet holes in him
Martha Mendoza
07/27/2007 (3) Orange Ciounty Supervisor says deputies' pensions are illegal / Supervisor expected to seek pension plan cuts
Peggy Lowe
07/27/2007 (3) Irvine sues agency over housing mandate / Irvine says state's housing mandate unfair
Erika Chavez
07/26/2007 (3) California foreclosures jump 800 percent in second quarter of 2007
Gregory J. Wilcox
07/26/2007 (3) Big squid eating their way through Central California
07/26/2007 (3) 100 years of hanging ten in California
Michael Scott Moore
07/26/2007 (3) Lots of (Closed) Libraries in San Diego
Scott Lewis
07/26/2007 (3) San Diego county's job growth a lackluster 0.1 % from June 2006 - June 2007
Kelly Bennett
07/26/2007 (3) The Teflon cardinal: Cardinal Roger M. Mahony
David Rief
07/26/2007 (3) State's job growth hits the brakes
Lisa Girion
07/26/2007 (3) Housing skid beginning to affect Southland rents
Annette Haddad
07/26/2007 (3) Forest Service cited for safety failures in firefighters' deaths in Southern California blaze
Andrew Glazer
07/26/2007 (3) Governor Schwarzenegger declares state of emergency in Riverside County
Jim Miller
07/26/2007 (3) UC to pay ex-coach millions in bias suit
Richard C. Paddock
07/26/2007 (3) Cheney Suppressed Evidence in California Energy Crisis
Jason Leopold
07/19/2007 (3) Archbishop of Los Angeles' statement on civil lawsuits about sex
Cardinal Roger M. Mahony
07/19/2007 (3) Marine acquitted of murder, convicted of conspiracy in Iraq killing
Rick Rogers
07/19/2007 (3) Los Angeles cardinal hopes San Diego archdiocese settles sex abuse claims
Sandi Dolbee, Mark Sauer and Matt Krasnowski
07/19/2007 (3) Imprisoned Randy Cunningham tells scope of his corruption
George E. Condon Jr. and Marcus Stern
07/19/2007 (3) Home sales in Southern California drop 36%; medeiam home price rises 2.4%
Annette Haddad
07/19/2007 (3) Legal and moral cloud shadows Cardinal Mahony
Richard Winton and Steve Chawkins
07/19/2007 (3) Decline in state for job-based health insurance
Mary Engel
07/19/2007 (3) San Bernadino County Sued for Polluting
07/19/2007 (3) Judge approves $660-million settlement for clerical abuse
Tami Abdollah and John Spano
07/12/2007 (3) $195M Marijuana Farm Found In Central California
07/12/2007 (3) Rancher foils marijuana growing operation
07/12/2007 (3) Nixon wanted 'nicey-nice' image but fought with gloves off
07/12/2007 (3) Construction costs for an LA high school go from $45M to $400M+
Evelyn Larrubia and Howard Blume
07/12/2007 (3) Gen. Vang Pao released on bail
07/11/2007 (3) State's population projected to soar by 2050; Hispanics to be state's majority ethnic group by 2042
Harrison Sheppard
07/11/2007 (3) Female inmates: Jammed behind bars? Chowchilla lockups at double their capacity, provoking health concerns.
E.J. Schultz
07/11/2007 (3) Nonprofit group subsidizes Gov. Schwarzenegger's travel frills
Paul Pringle
07/11/2007 (3) William Bratton: Lauded chief of troubled LAPD
Daniel B. Wood
07/03/2007 (3) A perfect recipe for a Lake Tahoe blaze
Bettina Boxall And Julie Cart
07/03/2007 (3) Rep. Rohrabacher feels Bush hasn't gone far enough to spread democracy.
Gene Maddaus
07/03/2007 (3) Arnold Schwarzenegger thinks he knows what voters want in next White House occupant
David S. Broder
07/03/2007 (3) Needed: Skilled immigrants. High tech industry needs less damaging `reform.'
07/03/2007 (3) How should we share the risks of fire with those who want a forest view?
07/03/2007 (3) Californians languish in nation's worst traffic
07/03/2007 (3) Dallas-based auction company to sell 175 bank-repossessed houses in Sacramento
Jim Wasserman
07/03/2007 (3) Human trafficking in Calidfornia
Stephen Magagnini
07/03/2007 (3) Judges seem willing to cap prison population
Nancy Vogel
06/27/2007 (3) Court allows release of Catholic clergy's personnel files
John Spano and Greg Krikorian
06/27/2007 (3) Climate change and The Governator
06/27/2007 (3) Report from UCLA team skirts the R-word (recession)
Annette Haddad
06/27/2007 (3) California Teen Wins Top Honor at Braille Challenge
Debbie Elliott
06/27/2007 (3) Why did the U.S. turn on Hmong resistance leadder Gen. Vang Pao?
Jeffrey Brody
06/27/2007 (3) On school menus: Cheese sandwiches, parental debt
Richard Marosi
06/18/2007 (3) Coastal panel rejects Monterey golf project
Kenneth R. Weiss
06/18/2007 (3) California's Health care plans are shaky
Dan Walters
06/18/2007 (3) Steven Spielberg endorses Hillary Clinton
Tina Daunt
06/07/2007 (3) Student test scores up since 2002 but achievment gaps persist
Howard Blume
06/07/2007 (3) Federal operation targets sophisticated networks of criminal illegal immifrants
Tracy Manzer
06/07/2007 (3) State faces skilled worker shortage
Teresa Watanabe
06/07/2007 (3) Six Questions about Duke Cunningham
Ken Silverstein
06/03/2007 (3) Points-Based Immigration: Lessons from Abroad / The Divide Over "Amnesty"
Eric Weiner
06/03/2007 (3) Doubts raised about home foreclosure figures
David Streitfeld
06/03/2007 (3) U.S. states' per capita carbon emissions; California below national average
05/26/2007 (3) Prop. 84 is poster measure for state's devious initiative system
George Skelton
05/26/2007 (3) Bill could imperil tollway extension. House committee member seeks amendment that could scuttle road through San Onofre state park.
Dan Weikel and David Reyes
05/26/2007 (3) Medical reform plan unveiled for California prisons
Josh Richman
05/26/2007 (3) Drops in San Diego County sales, increasing foreclosures, draw out region's housing slump
Kelly Bennett
05/23/2007 (3) State Attorney General Brown appeals to EPA about car and truck emissions
David Whitney
05/23/2007 (3) "The Wrong Stuff:" San Diego Union-Tribune reporters author book about Randy Cunningham
Terry Gross
05/23/2007 (3) San Francisco Bay area home prices rise, sales drop
Sue McAllister
05/16/2007 (3) Home sales hint at longer slump ahead
Annette Haddad
05/16/2007 (3) Huge budget shortfall seen: Legislative analyst says Schwarzenegger 2007-08 plan could add $3 billion deficit.
Judy Lin
05/16/2007 (3) Southern California grocery costs up 5.7%, outpacing U.S., rising at highest rate in years
Jerry Hirsch
05/16/2007 (3) Southern California grocery costs up 5.7%, outpacing U.S., rising at highest rate in years
Jerry Hirsch
05/16/2007 (3) Health czar rips prison bed plan, suggests need to take over hiring of officers to bolster medical care
Andy Furillo
05/16/2007 (3) Health czar rips prison bed plan, suggests need to take over hiring of officers to bolster medical care
Andy Furillo
05/16/2007 (3) Tunnel-filling crews get going at border
Anna Cearley
05/15/2007 (3) State still swimming in red ink
Dan Walters
05/15/2007 (3) Governor asks for cuts as state deficit looms
Evan Halper and Jordan Rau
05/13/2007 (3) Planning panel near San Diego in hot water over Blackwater training camp
Anne Krueger
05/13/2007 (3) San Diego: Kyle Foggo, former CIA executive director, indicted on charges involving defense contract
Dean Calbreath
05/13/2007 (3) State accused of inflating high school exit exam data
Joel Rubin
05/13/2007 (3) H.S. graduation hits lowest mark in 10 years; 1 / 3 of seniors fail to earn diploma.
Jill Tucker and Nanette Asimov
05/08/2007 (3) Delinquent borrowers may get a tax surprise along with forgiven debt
Kenneth R. Harney
05/08/2007 (3) Quick action can head off a foreclosure nightmare
Michelle Hofmann
05/08/2007 (3) Better-heeled failing "home economics" too
David Streitfeld
05/08/2007 (3) LA police chief apoligizes for police behavior at immigrant rights rally
Richard Winton
05/07/2007 (3) Separate trial, transfer of venue sought for ex-CIA official
Kelly Thornton
05/07/2007 (3) Carol Lam defends her performance as a U.S. attorney
Richard A. Serrano
05/07/2007 (3) Carol Lam's Firing is difficult to justify
Lionel Van Deerlin
05/06/2007 (3) California to expand its packed prisons
Ben Arnoldy
05/06/2007 (3) California Democratic Party Demands Impeachment of Bush, Cheney
David Swanson
05/06/2007 (3) Bill banning San Onofre toll route on hold
Dan Weikel and David Reyes
05/06/2007 (3) Prison bill first step in the right direction
George Skelton
05/06/2007 (3) Federal judges key to prison reform in California
Jenifer Warren
04/28/2007 (3) New biography of Nixon and Kissinger
Terry Gross
04/28/2007 (3) Talk-radio crowd pumps up the volume on immigration
Nicole Gaouette
04/28/2007 (3) Major issues go unaddressed in prison plan
Jenifer Warren
04/28/2007 (3) State seeks $7.4 billion for prisons
Jenifer Warren
04/28/2007 (3) California's Prison-Transfer Plan Angers Critics
Ina Jaffe
04/28/2007 (3) Tarzan's co-star Cheeta, now 75, speaks out
J.R. Moehringer
04/28/2007 (3) San Diego: Local Police Paying More, Waiting Longer for Ammo because of Iraq war
Will Carless
04/24/2007 (3) Pat Tillman's family blasts latest investigation of friendly fire death
Julia Prodis Sulek and Frank Davies
04/22/2007 (3) Work on state's death chamber halted
Andy Furillo
04/22/2007 (3) San Diego diocese admits understating value of church property
Mark Sauer and Sandi Dolbee
04/19/2007 (3) U.S. Rep. John Doolittle temporarily gives up seat on House Appropriations Committee
Erica Werner
04/18/2007 (3) Nearly 900 Californians a week are losing their homes
David Streitfeld
04/18/2007 (3) Amvac Chemical Corp. of Newport Beach settles sterility suit for $300,000
T. Christian Miller
04/18/2007 (3) FBI raid home of U.S. Rep. John Doolittle (R-Roseville)
David Whitney
04/18/2007 (3) More money won't fix California's schools
Dan Walters
04/18/2007 (3) Grandma, activist, jail inmate; Chico woman stands by her principles
Bobby Caina Calvan
04/18/2007 (3) Senator Feinstein sees link to Randy Cunningham in Lam's ouster
Erica Werner
04/15/2007 (3) Future for Los Angeles' middle class is uncertain
Rick Wartzman
04/15/2007 (3) Southern California's Hidden Slums
David Kelly
04/15/2007 (3) Highly drug-resistant gonorrhea spreading in San Diego, Long Beach, Orange County, San Francisco
Jia-Rui Chong
04/09/2007 (3) Amvac plant in Commerce contaminated
T. Christian Miller
04/09/2007 (3) New Port Beach pesticide maker Amvac fights EPA
T. Christian Miller
04/08/2007 (3) Whitney Houston gets divorce, child custody, in Orange County divorce
Christine Hanley
04/08/2007 (3) Gangs linked to boom in indoor pot farms
Andrew Blankstein and Garrett Therolf
04/07/2007 (3) Growing marijuana big business in California forests and cities
Bill McEwen / Andrew Blankstein and Garrett Therolf
04/07/2007 (3) Increase in Orange County's immigrant detainees
Jennifer Delson
04/05/2007 (3) California Behind Bars: Overcrowding, unionization and other prison problems.
David DeVoss
04/05/2007 (3) Bush's approval rating in California sinks to a new low; depth not seen since Nixon
Kevin Yamamura
03/31/2007 (3) Tilling the Man
Horace Coleman
03/31/2007 (3) UC, Cal State approve fee hikes: Costs will climb at least 7% in fall
Larry Gordon and Richard C. Paddock
03/31/2007 (3) State has nearly $3 billion to spend but in L.A. and elsewhere many needy campuses get nothing
Howard Blume
03/27/2007 (3) NPR does story about Hemet residents killed in the War on Terror
Mandalit del Barco
03/24/2007 (3) Blue Cross cancellations in California called illegal
Lisa Girion
03/24/2007 (3) School Coffers Feel Drag of Slowing Housing Market
Vladimir Kogan
03/24/2007 (3) No quick, cheap fix for state's schools
Joel Rubin and Howard Blume
03/21/2007 (3) Petaluma vet wounded in Iraq fights for benefits
Rone Tempest
03/20/2007 (3) Many graduates of U of California and California State systems start at a junior college
Clarissa Aljentera
03/20/2007 (3) Congressional Democrats allege U.S. attorney Carol Lam was ousted for investigating Republican politicians
Richard A. Serrano
03/20/2007 (3) Community college grads' pay goes up 85 percent in three years; achievement gaps for some groups not addressed.
Jim Sanders
03/17/2007 (3) California nurses union says it will join AFL-CIO
George Raine
03/17/2007 (3) Gonorrhea cases up in California and the West, down nationally--Meth use could explain the increases
Jia-Rui Chong
03/09/2007 (3) Women's wage gains exceed men's, but gap persists
Molly Selvin
03/09/2007 (3) Border politics may have cost U.S. attorney her job
Richard A. Serrano
03/06/2007 (3) L.A.'s anti-gang effort costs millions but critics say there's no way to tell how effective it is
Patrick McGreevy and Richard Winton
03/05/2007 (3) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build hydrogen bomb
Ralph Vartabedian
03/05/2007 (3) A new hydrogen bomb springs from an old design by a California man
Ralph Vartabedian
03/05/2007 (3) California National Guard troops prepare for war zone
Megan Garvey
02/27/2007 (3) This kind of news is news to him
Irv Erdos
02/22/2007 (3) Crime sleuths hampered by DNA lab delays
Brandon Bailey
02/21/2007 (3) Soldier from Barstow pleads guilty to rape / murder in Iraq
02/20/2007 (3) Judge blocks transfer of California prison inmates out of state
Andy Furillo
02/20/2007 (3) As civil trials in sex-abuse scandal loom, San Diego Bishop meets behind closed doors with 100s of priests.
Mark Sauer and Sandi Dolbee
02/18/2007 (3) Deportation cases soar as L.A. jails screen more
Patrick McGreevy and Stuart Pfeifer
02/18/2007 (3) Thousands of California inmates to be forcibly sent out of state to for-profit prisons to relieve overcrowding
Nancy Vogel
02/18/2007 (3) U.S. Repreesentative Loretta Sanchez quits Hispanic caucus--members acting like teenagers
02/18/2007 (3) Officials will drop efforts to deport parents of gifted child
Teresa Watanabe
02/14/2007 (3) Payback Period on Pension Debt Could Get Political
Evan McLaqughlin
02/14/2007 (3) San Diego City Council President Scott Peters "fundamentally distressed" about auditing firm KPMG
Andrew Donohue
02/14/2007 (3) Crisis in prison overcrowding cries out for a correction
George Skelton
02/13/2007 (3) Unfilled tunnels a weak link at U.S. / Mexican border
Richard Marosi
02/13/2007 (3) Targeting cross-border gangs: FBI to join L.A. police in training Latin American authorities in tracking 'transnational' street criminals.
Duke Helfand and Patrick McGreevy
02/13/2007 (3) Educated, Wealthy Immigrants Less Likely to Seek Citizenship
02/13/2007 (3) Fall out fiom Duke Cunningham's bribery case: Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes and former high-ranking CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo
Kelly Thornton and Debbi Farr Baker / Allison Hoffman
02/10/2007 (3) Occidental recalls 'Barry' Obama
Larry Gordon
02/10/2007 (3) Fish caught off L.A. County contain world's highest levels of DDT 35 years after it was banned.
Marla Cone
02/10/2007 (3) Deportation sought for 46 in Costa Mesa suspected of felonies and misdemeanors. Illegal-immigration foes pleased; Latino activists concerned.
Jennifer Delson
02/02/2007 (3) Freeways' tainted air harms children's lungs. Lifelong damage is found in study of youngsters living within 500 yards of a highway.
Thomas H. Maugh II
02/02/2007 (3) Costa Mesa's illegal-immigration crackdown causes fears. Activists worry city's enforcing federal laws would affect more than those guilty of serious crimes.
Jennifer Delson
02/02/2007 (3) Rage engulfs a neighborhood in which a 9-year-old girl was shot in her home only to have her alleged killers released.
Patt Morrison
01/27/2007 (3) Prison plan vexes counties: Local jails could be swamped
Andy Furillo
01/17/2007 (3) Schwarzenegger promises execution changes
Howard Mintz
01/17/2007 (3) California geezer Guardsmen face 2nd call to Iraq
Rone Tempest
01/17/2007 (3) Student leaders oppose fee hikes of 7% at UC and 10% at Cal State campuses
Larry Gordon
01/17/2007 (3) Health plan covering illegal immigrants faces tough sell to public
George Skelton
01/17/2007 (3) California's Democratic senators introduce bill creating a 'blue card' for illegal immigrant laborers essential to harvesting crops.
Nicole Gaouette
01/17/2007 (3) Crude reality: Fuel prices still up as oil price falls. Experts at a loss to explain rising California gasoline costs
Martin Zimmerman and Ronald D. White
01/17/2007 (3) Republicans take skeptical view of state budget
Nancy Vogel
01/11/2007 (3) After duty in Iraq, they're back on the beat
Patrick McGreevy
01/11/2007 (3) Tuition cut 23 percent at community colleges
Chris Moran
01/11/2007 (3) Job evaluation: Arnold Schwarzenegger
12/31/2006 (3) Black on white beating defense delayed / Hate motivation not proved in Long Beach racial beating, defense says
Greg Mellen
12/31/2006 (3) Godfather of soul, and of our goal
Clarence Page
12/31/2006 (3) Job evaluation: Arnold Schwarzenegger
12/31/2006 (3) Why the Governator invited Willie Brown to the inauguration
James Richardson
12/31/2006 (3) Charges against Camp Pendleton Marines detailed: Documents released in Haditha slayings.
Rick Rogers
12/31/2006 (3) Tuition cut 23 percent at community colleges
Chris Moran
12/31/2006 (3) LA cops, also reservists, retuirn from deploymeny in Iraq
Patrick McGreevy
12/24/2006 (3) History taking a sharp turn for Asian Americans
George Skelton
12/24/2006 (3) UCLA economists say California and U.S. economies headed for "soft landing"
Lisa Girion
12/17/2006 (3) Toll of war is too much for West Coast memorial
Michael R. Blood
12/12/2006 (3) Community colleges in dire need of finishing touches
Peter Schrag
12/12/2006 (3) No clear answers to questions of immigration
Greg Mellen
12/12/2006 (3) Thousands struggle in the shadow of affluence
Greg Mellen
12/10/2006 (3) White victim of hate crime tells attack details
Joe Mozingo / Wendy Thomas Russell and Tracy Manzer
12/07/2006 (3) Cardinakl Mahony's speaking, but he's still silent
Steve Lopez
12/07/2006 (3) How an African American family stood up to LA's restrictive housing covenants
Cecilia Rasmussen
12/07/2006 (3) Firehouse culture an ordeal for women
Sandy Banks
12/02/2006 (3) Former nun, molested as a child, can't forgive Cardinal Mahony's inaction
John Spano
12/02/2006 (3) LA archdiocese molestion settlement leaves largest questions unanswered
Paul Pringle and Jean Guccione
11/30/2006 (3) Changing How America Works: Something's wrong when only the rich are getting richer, and average folks are feeling the squeeze.
Andy Stern
11/30/2006 (3) Obit: 'Jezebel of Jazz', Anita O'Day--renowned singer
Dennis McLellan
11/26/2006 (3) Gucci and Prada for the under-13 crowd
Alana Semuels
11/12/2006 (3) As Iraq war drags on, so does a temporary memorial in Santa Barbara
Steve Chawkins
11/12/2006 (3) Debra Bowen, California secretary of state elect, is one of only six women to ever capture a statewide post
Jenifer Warren
11/12/2006 (3) California's Asian American voters flex their muscles
David Pierson
11/06/2006 (3) Some in U.S. guest worker program get a rude awakening in the fields
Lee Romney
10/28/2006 (3) GOP Congressional hopeful Tan Nguyen is focus of investigators after Hispanics get a scare-tactic flier.
Norberto Santana, Tony Saavedra and Martin Wisckol
10/26/2006 (3) Encinitas Marine pleads guilty in Hamdania killing
Mark Walker and Teri Figueroa
10/26/2006 (3) The San Diego Housing Market: For Sale' Times 30,000
Kelly Bennett
10/22/2006 (3) Aren't 13 Propositions Too Many?
Patt Morrison
10/22/2006 (3) More Homeowners Going Into Default
David Streitfeld and Martin Zimmerman
10/22/2006 (3) Six Flags writes a code of conduct in a bid to lure more families, fewer rowdy teens.
Alana Semuels
10/22/2006 (3) California to Send Inmates Out of State
10/22/2006 (3) Encinitas Marine reported ready to plead guilty in Hamdania case
Teri Figueroa and Mark Walker
10/19/2006 (3) Escondido OKs law prohibiting landlords from renting to illegal immigrants
David Fried
10/19/2006 (3) Randy Cunningham steered $70 million to those who bribed him, House report says
Greg Miller
10/19/2006 (3) U.S. Rep. Jerry Lewis Is House's Top Recipient of Lobbyist Donations
Richard Simon
10/19/2006 (3) U.S. Rep. Jerry Lewis' Legal Fees Are Drain on His War Chest
Richard Simon
10/19/2006 (3) California Mortgage Default Rate Throttles Up
David Streitfeld and Martin J. Zimmerman
10/18/2006 (3) Freak Dancing Freaks Out Adults
Seema Mehta
10/14/2006 (3) Governor Courts Black Clergy With Aid From Prop. 49
Peter Nicholas
10/07/2006 (3) Onell R. Soto
Randy Cunningham's wife admits wrongdoing but won't be prosecuted
10/07/2006 (3) Randy Cunninghan, in prison letter, blames contractor for downfall, reporter for his pain
George E. Condon Jr.
10/07/2006 (3) Feeling Low in the Middle Class
Kelly Bennett
10/02/2006 (3) Immigration Work Force Fights Corruption in Its Ranks
Pauline Arrillaga
10/02/2006 (3) North (San Diego) County congressional representatives argue for tough immigration bills
Edward Sifuentes
10/02/2006 (3) California soldier dies after trying to save others in Iraq
09/28/2006 (3) Top-flight colleges' students do poorly on Civics and American History, study says. Berkeley gets an F, Stanford a D
Tanya Schevitz
09/26/2006 (3) The IRS Works in (not so) Mysterious Ways Against Pasadena's All Saints church
Steve Lopez
09/23/2006 (3) Pasadena's All Saints Episcopal Church Won't Comply With IRS Probe
Louis Sahagun
09/21/2006 (3) L.A. Panel Reaffirms Muslim's Award After Controversy
Teresa Watanabe
09/17/2006 (3) Agent claims accused Marine cried during interrogation
Mark Walker and Teri Figueroa
09/12/2006 (3) The antidote to a poisoned debate on illegal immigration
Arnold Schwarzenegger
09/11/2006 (3) Gov. Schwarzenegger Settles Suit Brought by Former TV Host
Robert Salladay
09/07/2006 (3) Protest Targets Maywood CA's Stance on Illegal Immigration. Tiny city is known as a 'sanctuary' for illegal immigrants
Ted Rohrlich For a couple of hours, a small group of demonstrators made Slauson Avenue in the tiny city of Maywood feel like the red-hot center of the national debate over immigrant rights.
09/07/2006 (3) Bill Renews Debate Over Helping English Learners: Critics say it would cause 'segregated' learning.
Carla Rivera Glendale teacher Rebecca Quintero recently spent a morning encouraging her fourth-graders to write about the joys of summer for an English assignment. Some of her Spanish, Armenian, Korean and Tagalog speakers were confused at how to begin and their textbook offered limited guidance.
What Quintero needed was a fourth-grade book that would support students with varying degrees of English proficiency.
09/07/2006 (3) Far Fewer California Schools Meet Targets in State Testing: Far Fewer California Schools Meet Targets in State Testing
Howard Blume and Seema Mehta Just over half of California's schools met their state testing improvement targets — far fewer than last year — a disappointing result that was fueled by schools' inability to keep pace with rising expectations. This leveling off was especially worrisome in the data for poor students and African Americans.
09/04/2006 (3) Labor Day Special: A Willing Worker Can't Afford a Job She Loves
Joe Mathews Anticipating the strike and lockout at Southern California grocery stores that ultimately lasted more than four months — she quit to find other work. When she decided to go back into the grocery business last year, she took a job, held the same job title, joined the same union. Everything else was different.
She found she would have to wait 18 months for health benefits. She and most of her fellow workers were part-timers who struggled to get more than 16 hours each week.
09/04/2006 (3) labor Day Special: In California Wages Barely Keep Up With Inflation
The California Budget Project study tracked hourly wage increases, adjusted for inflation, across three earning categories: low, median and high. In 2005, hourly pay for the lowest earners was $10, median pay was $17, and high pay was $30.
From 2003 to 2005, workers in the low and median ranges saw little or no wage growth, while those at the high end of the wage scale saw increases of barely 1%, according to the study to be released today.
09/02/2006 (3) New Version of SAT Brings Lower Scores in New Version of SAT Brings Lower Scores in California. U.S.
Rebecca Trounson The nation's high school class of 2006, the first to take a new, longer version of the SAT, posted the sharpest drop in scores on the widely used college entrance exam in more than three decades, test officials said Tuesday.
In California, more than 190,000 college-bound seniors took the exam, an increase of about 3% from 2005. They beat the national average on the writing section with an average score of 501.
But the state's scores in critical reading and math slipped below last year's. In reading, students posted an average score of 501, down three points from 2005 and two points below the national average.
09/02/2006 (3) Marines signal end of pretrial hearings in two Hamdania cases / Two Marines Admit Killing Iraqi Man
Mark Walker and Teri Figuerosa / Tony Perry Marine Corps officials said that pretrial hearings for two of the eight men accused of war crimes will not resume today, and they do not expect court action any time next week. The announcement signals the cases will be decided on evidence prosecutors submitted to the hearing officers in court.
08/27/2006 (3) Governor settles lawsuit as libel that started out as fondling
Robert Salladay Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has settled a lawsuit in London brought by a former British TV host who accused the governor of fondling her and later said the governor's aides had smeared her reputation, attorneys for both sides said Friday.
08/27/2006 (3) Reader's of a namby pamby paper in a basically conservative California big city express their feelings about leaving Iraq.
As President Bush spoke to reporters Monday about his resolve to stay the course in Iraq, a CNN poll was released that showed nearly two-thirds of those polled do not support the war.
But Bush is adamant. "If we ever give up the desire to help people who want to live in a free society, we will have lost our soul as a nation," he said.
08/23/2006 (3) Schwarzenegger Hears Rumbles From the Right: Conservatives see some of the governor's stands as liberal.
Michael Finnegan With the vote on his reelection just over 12 weeks away, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faces a wave of conservative unrest that threatens the steady political recovery he has made this year by widening his appeal beyond his base of Republican supporters.
To keep conservatives in line, Schwarzenegger campaign operatives have quietly launched efforts to rally support among Christian fundamentalists, gun owners and other Republicans who have long been wary of the governor and backed him only grudgingly.
08/23/2006 (3) State adds 900 jobs in a slow July
Mehul Srivastava The EDD divides the state's economy into 11 sectors; 6 of those -- including financial activities and leisure/hospitality -- added 17,900 jobs over the month. The remaining five sectors lost 17,000 jobs; education and health services lead with 6,900 fewer jobs. That loss is likely seasonal--teachers leaving payrolls of private schools during the summer months.
The declining number of new jobs reflects a trend that economists statewide anticipated -- as housing market cools off, California's economy will have to adjust to a drop in construction-related jobs. The decline has been steady since May, when 14,800 new jobs were added to the state's payrolls; June saw 11,000 new jobs, compared with 900 in July.
08/20/2006 (3) Duke Cunningham's wife shoots him down
Kitty Kelley Duke Cunningham's conviction stands as the worst case of corruption to date involving a member of Congress. "In the sheer dollar amount, it's unprecedented," Deputy House Historian Fred W. Beuttler told the San Diego Union-Tribune. The sledgehammer sentence of eight years and four months is also unparalleled. According to the U.S. attorney, it is the longest prison sentence for a former member of Congress, but, then, no member of Congress has roiled the public as brazenly as Duke Cunningham.
08/19/2006 (3) andy 'Duke' Cunningham's Wife Says She Felt Deceived
The wife of disgraced former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham felt deceived about the extent of her now-estranged husband's corruption, she said in her first public interview since the scandal broke last year.
Nancy Cunningham told New Republic magazine that she didn't question junkets paid for by defense contractors because other senior congressional figures, including Speaker Dennis Hastert, joined in.
08/13/2006 (3) California's Hall of Fame Leaves Out Major Figures
George Skelton Who didn't make the cut for the California Hall of Fame:
• Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Collis P. Huntington and Mark Hopkins. Their epic construction of the Central Pacific railroad over the Sierra opened the continent and paved the way for California growth.
• Reform Gov. Hiram Johnson, 1911-17. He gave us the initiative, referendum and recall, nonpartisan local elections and a Public Utilities Commission that crushed the railroad monopoly.
• Amadeo Peter Giannini. He founded the Bank of Italy — later renamed the Bank of America — and revolutionized banking by lending to the working stiff, not just to the wealthy. He helped finance California agriculture and the Hollywood movie industry.
• Earl Warren, governor and U.S. Supreme Court chief justice; only California governor elected to three terms, a Republican so popular he once even won the Democratic nomination.
• Industrialist Henry J. Kaisr; he built 1,490 ships during World War II, better than a ship a day. He also created steel mills and pioneered HMOs.
• Gov. Pat Brown, 1959-67. A builder and visionary.
Other rejects: Father Junipero Serra, founder of California's missions; John Charles Fremont, explorer, military leader in the "Bear Flag Rebellion" against Mexican rule and U.S. senator. The gold rush guys: John Sutter and James Marshall; Helen Hunt Jackson, author of "Ramona," the classic about Spanish Southern California; John Steinbeck, whose "Grapes of Wrath" is arguably the most famous novel ever set in California; and Ishi, the last Native American to survive in the wild.
08/13/2006 (3) State Appeals Court Upholds H.S. Exit Exam: Lawsuit claimed test biased against poor, minority students, English-learners.
Carla Rivera State appeals court uphold California's high school exit exam, rejecting claims by students that they will be irreparably harmed if their diplomas are withheld.
Judges concluded with admonition to all parties to "step outside their 'fog of war' " and cooperate in finding ways to provide students with "equal and adequate access" to remedial assistance, if needed, so they can pass the exit exam.
08/12/2006 (3) TAudit says former San Diego city and pension board members violated laws in their pursuit of solutions to deficit now approaching $2billion.
Richard Marosi A long-awaited audit released Tuesday blames San Diego's pension fund debacle on mismanagement and illegal financial manipulations that recall the fiscal crises of Orange County and Enron Corp.
The 266-page report concludes that some former city and pension board officials violated state and federal laws in their ill-advised pursuit of short-term solutions for a pension fund deficit that now approaches $2 billion.
08/12/2006 (3) CSN&Y's political party: The grizzled '60s holdovers deliver an inspired diatribe that surely left some fans divided.
Ben Wener If I offered nothing more than a play-by-play of this four-hour, 34-song evening, recounting only song lyrics and the group's many minimalist performance-art statements – like a gigantic microphone, a yellow ribbon around its stand, erected with the dramatic flair of Young's "Greendale" production as though it were a literal vox populi – well, I still wouldn't be able to avoid sharing their fed-up point of view.
So why try to be so clinical, so "objective"? Yet, knowing this concert would be as protest-heavy as any in decades, I arrived consumed by thoughts of how typical folk here would take to it.
What a joke of a premise. Never mind that O.C. people (those who aren't apathetic, that is) aren't so easy to peg, especially during such contentious times. What I wonder is how anyone could even speculate about the crowd's undoubtedly wildly varied reaction.
08/06/2006 (3) Six Marines charged with assault in Hamdania incident
Mark Walker CAMP PENDLETON -- The Marine Corps has filed charges against six Marines for an alleged assault on an unnamed Iraqi man in the village of Hamdania, officials annpunced.
07/30/2006 (3) Spending Less? You're Helping Slow the Economy
Molly Hennessy-Fiske Conserving her family's cash as costs rise, Riverside resident Laureen Pittman is postponing vacations, home repairs and other big purchases. For necessities, she is increasingly relying on discount retailers, shopping at Costco instead of Ralphs and Marshalls instead of Nordstrom.
07/30/2006 (3) L.A. Area Leads in "Employers" That Aren't
Molly Selvin and Molly Hennessy-Fiske One hundred workers count on Betsy Briones for their paychecks. But not one of them works for her.
Briones is a so-called nonemployer, relying exclusively on contract or temporary workers. This arrangement, which allows employers to avoid the soaring costs of health insurance and other benefits, is booming in California, according to a Census Bureau report to be released today.
The 63-year-old Briones runs a busy referral agency for in-home care workers out of her Los Angeles residence, placing caregivers with elderly or disabled clients. All of her caregivers are independent contractors and are responsible for obtaining their own benefits, she said.
07/23/2006 (3) Rich, Poor Live Poles Apart in L.A. as Middle Class Keeps Shrinking
Nancy Cleeland Demographers at Wayne State University in Detroit found Greater Los Angeles to be the most economically segregated region in the country. The study found only about 28% of its neighborhoods to be middle-class or mixed income, compared with more than half of those in Nashville, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Portland, Ore.
07/02/2006 (3) State Tracked Protesters in the Name of Security Officials say they have stopped monitoring antiwar and political rallies.
Peter Nicholas Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office in charge of protecting California against terrorism has tracked demonstrations staged by political and antiwar groups, a practice that senior law enforcement officials say is an abuse of civil liberties.
07/01/2006 (3) State's prison system in 'crisis':
Andy Furillo In calling for a special legislative session on prison overcrowding, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has achieved a measure of political cover in the event of worst-case correctional scenarios -- riots, hostage-taking and death.
But it remains to be seen whether his actions will serve to inoculate him from the state's long-running prison crisis, especially if a federal judge orders the release of thousands of inmates to relieve the system's population pressure.
06/30/2006 (3) California's gap between state and federal scores in No Child Left Behind program is among the smallest. in the Nation
Mitchell Landsberg Study finds that No Child Left Behind had not led to gains in math or reading achievement, nor had it achieved another major goal: reducing the gaps in achievement among racial and economic groups.
06/30/2006 (3) California's Budget Dance Avoids the Missteps of the Past
George Skelton The main difference in this budget dance was the virtual brushoff of the "Big Five."
Back about four governors ago — but mainly with Pete Wilson — an abomination called the Big Five was institutionalized. It consisted of the governor and four legislative leaders — the two party honchos from each house. They'd sit around the governor's office and write the final versions of big bills, including the biggest of all: the budget.
Big Five negotiations make sense only in dire emergencies. This budget still will spend more than the state takes in. So it's not really balanced, despite the spin.
06/24/2006 (3) Gov. Refuses Bush Request for More Border Troops
Peter Nicholas Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office said that he turned down a White House request to more than double the number of California National Guard troops deployed to the border, fearing the commitment could leave the state vulnerable if an earthquake or wildfire erupts.
06/23/2006 (3) Seven Marines, Navy corpsman charged with murder
Mark Walker, David Sterrett, Willam Finn Bennett In one of the most serious criminal cases of the Iraq, seven Marines and a Navy corpsman were charged with premeditated murder, kidnapping and conspiracy and related charges in the alleged abduction and slaying of an Iraqi civilian.
06/23/2006 (3) Local Marines, residents say charges too harsh
David Sterbett Several Marines and North County residents said murder and kidnapping charges filed Wednesday against seven Marines and a Navy corpsman seem unwarranted.
Even though many of the specifics of the allegations have yet to be released by Marine Corps officials, many of those interviewed said they were standing with the troops.
"It's not fair because they were in a hostile situation and you can't trust anyone," said Sgt. Chris Janes, who has been to Iraq twice.
06/07/2006 (3) An immigrant's critique of Fox : “We're not here for the American Dream. We're here to survive.”
Reuben Navarrette What to do to make a better Mexico?
Three things:
(1) Tackle police corruption; people have no incentive to be productive if they're constantly being fleeced and robbed by those who are supposed to protect them.
(2) Stop penalizing employers and small businesses; cutting licensing fees would allow companies to create more jobs and pay higher wages.
(3) Clean up the environment by punishing companies that plunder natural resources and lay waste to the countryside and waterways.
Vicente Fox hadn't done enough in those areas.
05/28/2006 (3) After Scandals, Usually Sunny San Diegans Wonder if City Has Hit Bottom
John M. Bradford Last summer, shortly after former Mayor Dick Murphy resigned in the depths of San Diego's legal, political and financial crisis, city officials quietly removed the boosterish slogan "America's Finest City" from the city's Web site.
Jerry Sanders, the former San Diego chief of police who became mayor in December, restored the upbeat motto as one of his first official acts, even as the investigations, indictments and deficits continued to pour forth.
05/27/2006 (3) Photos Indicate Civilians in Haditha, Iraq Were Killed Execution-Style by Camp Pendleton Marines
Tony Perry and Julian E. Barnes Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them "execution-style," in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha after a roadside bomb killed an American in November, officials close to the investigation said Friday.
05/27/2006 (3) Mideast Debate Takes Root at UC Irvine Jewish and Muslim leaders say clashes on Orange County, CA campus have intensified
Ashraf Khalil UC Irvine is an unlikely flashpoint in the national Israeli-Arab debate. Campus' Muslim Student Union has drawn harsh criticism for last week's "Holocaust in the Holy Land" programs. Events included a speech titled "Israel: the 4th Reich" and the construction of a mock Israeli security wall with students dressed as Israeli army officers conducting aggressive checkpoint searches.
05/19/2006 (3) The Price of Border Security Might Just Be the National Guard
George Skelton President Bush wants to use the state National Guard to do a federal job. Sacramento Democrats complain that's a dumb idea, but they're virtually powerless to stop it. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gets the final call. He can send the troops or buck Bush.
05/19/2006 (3) California Officials Chafe at Bush's Plan foNational Guard
Robert Salladay and Nancy Vogel California's highest-ranking officials react with displeasure and exasperation Wednesday to President Bush's plan to use thousands of National Guard troops to support border patrols and curb illegal immigration.
05/13/2006 (3) Gov. Schwarzenegger Says Borders Are Vulnerable; takes Congress and White House to task for failing to enact an immigration strategy. says they are to blame for protests.
Peter Nicholas In some of the harshest terms he has used to date, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday said the federal government has left the nation's borders dangerously vulnerable while failing to come up with a sensible approach to immigration.
05/13/2006 (3) California Lawmaker Rep. Jerry Lewis Touched by the Duke Cunningham Corruption Probe
Peter Pae Federal prosecutors have begun an investigation into Rep. Jerry Lewis, the Californian who chairs the powerful House Appropriations Committee, government officials and others said, signaling the spread of a San Diego corruption probe.
05/12/2006 (3) Jeannine Aversa
When rent is taken into account, California has the No. 3 highest number of needy people in the country. California's poverty rate is deceiving. When rent is taken into account, California has the No. 3 highest number of needy people in the country.
05/12/2006 (3) Poway's Brent Wilkes is 'co-conspirator No. 1' in the Cunningham case, his lawyer says.
Peter Pae and Dan Morain Brent R. Wilkes was a small defense contractor who looked for powerful friends in high places.
On Capitol Hill, Wilkes plied lawmakers with gifts, favors and hefty campaign contributions. He leased a jet and took then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) to three states on a golfing vacation. He hired expensive lobbyists close to legislators who controlled last-minute changes to the Pentagon's budget.
Over the last decade, some of Wilkes' two dozen firms in San Diego and Virginia received about $100 million in federal contracts. They were small deals by Washington standards, usually a few million dollars apiece, and they involved dull jobs — scanning and filing documents, supplying computer storage devices or delivering bottled water to government workers overseas — but rivals complained that Wilkes got more than his share.
05/02/2006 (3) Pasadena-based Parsons Corp. was to rebuild Iraq's health and security sectors. Poor work left many goals abandoned,
T. Christian Miller Parsons Corp., the Pasadena engineering firm that won one of the largest rebuilding contracts in postwar Iraq, fell dramatically short of a number of goals. The firm was to have rebuilt Iraq's health and security infrastructure. However, it will finish only 20 of 150 planned health clinics, and nearly $70 million of medical equipment meant for the clinics sits unused.
05/02/2006 (3) Latino advocates face this question: How to translate the passion of the streets into lasting political gains
Teresa Watanabe and Nicole Gaouette As immigrants and their supporters boycotted work and school, refrained from consumer spending and marched in cities across the nation, the urgent question they face is how to translate the passion of the streets into lasting political gains.
05/02/2006 (3) Immigrant Debate, Pavement Version in Los Angeles
Steve Lopez In Beverly Hills, it was a day without Chaya Brasserie, which closed because most of the employees wanted to march. But the Ivy took up the slack, with a lunch line that stretched out to the sidewalk.
"What demonstrations?" asked a woman waiting to dine.
It's safe to say that if you're carrying a Prada pocketbook and a bag from Barney's, the recent activism is of little interest unless the housekeeper calls in sick.
05/02/2006 (3) Going all wobbly on illegal immigration
Jill Stewart For years, illegal immigration policy in California has been driven by fear. Fear of being unfairly labeled anti-Latino is one reason the California Legislature doesn't study basic questions like "What does it cost the average California taxpayer to support an illegal immigrant?"
04/29/2006 (3) The parole system in California is a crime
Joan Petersilia and Robert Weisberg California's corrections chief and his acting replacement have both quit in the last two months. A major cause of the growing dysfunctionality has nothing to do with how the state runs its prisons and administers parole. Rather, it's the state's laws that determine the lengths of prison terms and inmate-release policies.
04/29/2006 (3) California's Energy Strategy Holds Lessons for Bush
Ronald Brownstein Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democrats in the state Legislature are fashioning a comprehensive response to two of America's most pressing problems: the intertwined challenges of global warming and energy independence. In contrast, Bush focused almost entirely on promoting more domestic production of oil and gas.
04/16/2006 (3) Border arrests surge in S.D. region
Leslie Berestein Arrests of illegal border crossers have increased more sharply in the San Diego region than anywhere else in the Southwest during the past six months, as stepped up enforcement in Arizona has pushed human smuggling traffic west.
04/16/2006 (3) Organizers dedicate L.A. immigrant rights march to boy whose family blames suicide on fear allegedly instilled by school official
Jean Merl and Richard Winton Several thousand people marched through downtown Los Angeles to protest federal legislation that would crack down on illegal immigration. Organizers dedicated the event to Anthony Soltero, whose mother says he killed himself after a school vice principal allegedly told him that he would be sent to jail for missing class to take part in an immigration rights march.
04/16/2006 (3) Mother Blames School Official for Son's Suicide
Lance Pugmire and Janet Wilson Distraught mother calls for temporary removal of vice principal she blames for her 14-year-old son's suicide after he was disciplined for missing class to take part in an immigration rights march.
04/09/2006 (3) What's with all those Mexican flags at pro immigrant rallies?
Daniel Hernandez “When you’re in high school, you try to find something that ties you with the rest of your friends, you try to find out who you are, and being Mexican, I guess, is what ties all these kids together,” said Martha Ugarte, 22, who helps out her mother, Martha, with organizing and publicity for regional Mexican clubs in L.A.
“I don’t think they see it as, ‘I’m supporting the Mexican government.’ When you see the U.S. flag, to them it represents more of a government than a culture, and the Mexican flag represents more of a culture than a government.”
04/09/2006 (3) Eighth grader committs suicide after being threatened with sanctions after organizing school walk out
Actor Edward James Olmos and Movie Producer Moctezuma Esparza HBO's "East L.A Walkouts,""Selena,""Milagro Beanfield War") to be among community members to pray for Anthony Soltero, age 14, who shot himself after being told he was going to prison because of his involvement as an organizer of school walk-outs to protest anti-immigrant legislation.
04/08/2006 (3) Most Seniors Pass H.S. Exit Test Poor, Latino and black students lag behind whites and Asians overall, a statewide analysis finds.
Carla Rivera Nearly 89% of seniors have passed the California high school exit exam, but wide achievement gaps remain for poor students and English learners, according to new figures released Tuesday by the state Education Department.
03/27/2006 (3) California 49th in sending kids to college--lack of counselors, prep classes blamed; many attend community colleges
Lisa M. Sodders California sends a smaller percentage of high school students to four-year colleges than any other state but Mississippi a trend that experts blame on too few counselors, teachers and college preparatory courses, a new study says.
03/24/2006 (3) No accounting for a crook's taste
Patt Morrison It's not often that you get a chance to mock a man's ethics and his taste in interior decorating at the same time. The feds are slamming down the auction hammer on some of Randy "Duke" Cunningham's ill-gotten gains, the loot that the former honorable Republican congressman from San Diego County amassed by hanging a "for sale" sign around his own dishonorable neck.
03/24/2006 (3) Auction of Randy Cunningham's Ill Gotten Gains Fetch $94,000
Teri Figero Furnishings that once adorned the Rancho Santa Fe home of former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham are now in the hands of common folks. The public auction in a vast, cold Los Angeles-area warehouse marked an unceremonious footnote to a scandal that brought down a congressman.
03/24/2006 (3) California 49th in sending kids to college. Lack of counselors, prep classes blamed; many attend community colleges.
Lisa M. Sodders California sends a smaller percentage of high school students to four-year colleges than any other state but Mississippi a trend that experts blame on too few counselors, teachers and college preparatory courses, a new study says.
The roadblocks to college are even larger in schools with a high percentage of poor students and English-language learners, according to the 2006 California Educational Opportunity Report prepared by UCLA.
03/24/2006 (3) U.S. Reps. Dan Lungren and Loretta Sanchez outline $4B port security plan for LA / Long Beach
Kristopher Hanson Citing a critical lack of security against terrorism at the nation's ports, two members of Congress on Friday outlined a $4 billion plan to conduct background checks on port workers and inspect all container cargo coming into the nation, among other measures.
03/24/2006 (3) Welcome to Maywood, CA where the mostly Latino city's council wants it to be a sanctuary for illegl immigrnts
Hector Becerra In Maywood, CA where 96% of the residents are Latino, and more than half are foreign-born, the City Council has vowed to make the municipality a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants, and over the last few months it has set out to prove it.
03/22/2006 (3) California's Air Is Among Nation's Most Toxic
Marla Cone Despite two decades of cleaning up carcinogenic fumes from cars and factories, Californians are breathing some of the most toxic air in the nation, with residents of Los Angeles and Orange counties exposed to a cancer risk about twice the national average.
03/22/2006 (3) Civil Trial in Orange County Sex Assault Likely to Be Ugly
Christopher Goffard The victim of an Orange County Sex Assault has sued the three young men convicted of sexually assaulting her while a video camera rolled and she lay unconscious on a pool table. And she is suing Haidl's father, a rich former Orange County assistant sheriff, alleging that he should have known of the drug- and alcohol-fueled parties raging in his Corona del Mar home, where the attack occurred.
03/18/2006 (3) Non-U.S. firms manage most of the terminals at L.A.-area ports
Ronald D. White On Southern California's bustling docks, there's a queasy familiarity to the uproar over a state-owned Arab company's push to manage port terminals in six U.S. cities.
That's because it happened here at the nation's busiest port complex in the late 1990s, but the foreign government involved then was China. The fears were about espionage and smuggling, not the terrorism concerns that plague Dubai Ports World's $6.8-billion purchase of a British company's worldwide shipping business.
03/12/2006 (3) Perps in Notorious Orange County Rape Case Each Sentenced to Six Years
Larry Welborn and Rachael Srisvasdi Greg Haidl and two friends were sentenced today to six years apiece in prison for sexually assaulting a drunken teenage girl in one of the highest-profile trials ever in Orange County.
Haidl, 20, and Kyle Nachreiner, 21, apologized in court to the 20-year-old victim, known as “Jane Doe,” who was molested with a pool cue, a cigarette and a Snapple bottle. Co-defendant Keith Spann, 21, did not speak.
03/12/2006 (3) Dark Portrait of a 'Painter of Light': tactics and seamy personal conduct. He disputes the allegations.
Kim Christensen Thomas Kinkade is famous for images he says have brought "God's light" into people's lives, even as they have made him one of America's most collected artists. Kinkade trades heavily on his beliefs and says God has guided his brush — and his life — for the last 20 years.
"When I got saved, God became my art agent." But some former Kinkade employees, gallery operators and others contend the Painter of Light has a decidedly dark side. In litigation and interviews with the LA Times, some former gallery owners depict Kinkade as a ruthless businessman who drove them to financial ruin at the same time he was fattening his business associates' bank accounts and feathering his nest with tens of millions of dollars.
03/12/2006 (3) Nazi Camp Survivors and Ex-GI Who helped Liberate Him Celebrate Anew in San Diego
Tony Perry Twice in his five years of starvation and brutality in four Nazi concentration camps, Lou Dunst was herded along with other prisoners into a gas chamber to be killed. Once there was a malfunction in the gas jets, and the other time a guard decided that he did not want to waste precious coal to burn the bodies, so the execution was called off.
More dead than alive, Dunst and other prisoners at the Ebensee camp in Austria were rescued by the U.S. Army in the final days of World War II. Dunst and his brother Irving, who was also captive at Ebensee, met Robert Persinger, the Army staff sergeant who led the platoon that liberated the camp on May 6, 1945.
03/12/2006 (3) Schwarzenegger's After-School Plan Needs More Study
George Skelton In 2002, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger created a ballot initiative for after-school programs that he used as a springboard to the governor's office the next year. Now, that measure is about to become a drain on the state treasury — and on schools.
03/08/2006 (3) "As a pilot, Duke [Cunningham] was a hero, but as a congressman he was a flop."
Tony Perry When Randy Cunningham's political career ended in a prison sentence, his heroic service in Vietnam was the only thing he was willing to defend in his tearful plea for mercy.
03/05/2006 (3) “Pampering & Poetry"
03/04/2006 (3) Cunningham taken into custody, ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution
Karen Kucher, Greg Gross, Angelica Martinez and Debbi Farr Baker Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham taken into custody after being sentenced to eight years and four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution for accepting bribes from defense contractors.
03/03/2006 (3) Ex U.S. Rep. Randy Cunningham Senteced to Eight Years and Four Months in prison, Payment of Restitution
Horace Coleman Former California Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham has been sentenced to eight years and four months in a federal prison for receiving bribes from defense contractors.
02/28/2006 (3) Things to Do Before You Get Pregnant: Take folic acid. Buy a new house. Get your mercury tested.
Judith Lewis The same administration that conferred legal rights on the unborn fetus has so far refused to regulate emissions of a mercuty, known to damage fetal brains in the womb. And, while California’s clean-air laws keep coal-fired power plants outside the state’s borders, residents have not escaped coal’s toxic effects
02/27/2006 (3) Military Contractor Who Bribed Randy Cunningham Pleads Guilty to Bribery of Others
David S. Cloud Military contractor pleads guilty to paying Randy Cunninghaqm more than $1 million in bribes. Mitchell Wade also hired the son of a Pentagon official in a scheme that helped bring his firm more than $150 million in military contracts since 2002.
Wade also admitted making nearly $80,000 in illegal campaign contributions to two other House members. Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., (R,VA) and Rep. Katherine Harris (R. FL)issued statements identifying themselves as the two members.
02/18/2006 (3) LA Area Violence Shifts From Street to Jails
Hector Becerra and Richard Winton Some LA area local law enforcement officials believe large-scale riots and fights in jails might have been fueled by several recent crackdowns on warring Latino and black gangs.
02/16/2006 (3) Social Activist, Women's Right Promoter Angela Davis to speak at UC San Diego
Angela Davis, social activist and promoter of women's rights and racial justice, will speak at UC San Diego on 6 p.m. March 1 in the Price Center Ballroom.
02/15/2006 (3) Race walls won't end jail riots in Los Angeles County
Jody Kent Overcrowding and understaffing, and the increased tension that those two factors bring, have created a situation potentially so volatile that everyone inside — inmates and deputies alike — is unsafe. Last week, dilapidated, outmoded facilities provided the fire that ignited the fuse. Despite what you may be hearing, race is not the issue.
02/10/2006 (3) High Mercury Levels Found in Californians
Marla Cone Californians who volunteered for a nationwide study of mercury contamination had among the worst levels, with nearly one-third of those tested having concentrations in their tissues that exceeded safe levels.
02/05/2006 (3) Traces of Prescription Drugs Found in Southland Aquifers (Los Angeles area)
Marla Cone New technology enables detection of infinitesimally small doses of chemicals in the environment. Southern California water-quality officials have learned an array of pharmaceuticals are defying even the most sophisticated sewage treatments.
02/05/2006 (3) California Military Family Relief Fund Goes Untapped
Rone Tempest A year after it was launched to help activated National Guard families suffering financial hardships, the California Military Family Relief Fund has been a major disappointment to its sponsors.
01/24/2006 (3) Conservative Drops Offer of $100 Bounty for "Radical" Professors at UCLA
Stuart Silverstein The conservative activist who is waging a campaign against what he contends are UCLA's "radical professors" Monday withdrew his offer to pay students bounties of up to $100 per class to provide information about their teachers. But he pledged to continue his effort with unpaid volunteers.
01/21/2006 (3) Tim Wise, prominent anti-racist writer and activist , to speak in San Diego
Tim Wise speaking at San Diego Museum of Art
01/18/2006 (3) UCLA Alumni Group Is Tracking 'Radical' Faculty
Stuart Silverstein and Peter Y. Hong A fledgling alumni group headed by a former campus Republican leader is offering students payments of up to $100 per class to provide information on instructors who are "abusive, one-sided or off-topic" in advocating political ideologies.
01/14/2006 (3) Has the “Duke” of Deception become a snitch?
Laura Rozen The corruption scandal involving California Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham would not seem to have the elements of a decent spy novel. Time magazine(6 Jan 05) reported that before Cunningham’s plea agreement was publicly announced, he had been wearing a concealed recording device. "The identity of those with whom the San Diego congressman met while wearing the wire remains unclear" Time wrote. What the Time report suggests was that Cunningham might not be the biggest fish in this case after all.
01/12/2006 (3) 1st Suit in State to Attack 'Intelligent Design' Filed
Henry Weinstein A group of parents in the small Tehachapi mountain community of Lebec on Tuesday filed the first lawsuit challenging the teaching of "intelligent design" in a California public school.
01/12/2006 (3) A Fault Line for 'Intelligent Design' in the Tehachapi Mountains
Louis Sahagun and Eric Bailey A small close-knit community in the Tehachapi Mountains mountains has become the latest focal point in the national debate over teaching "intelligent design" in public schools.
01/12/2006 (3) Moratorium on Executions Is Urged
Henry Weinstein A group of California prosecutors — including the author of California's 1978 death penalty initiative, whose office sent dozens of people to death row when he was Los Angeles County's district attorney — endorse a moratorium on executions in California.
01/10/2006 (3) Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Defends Indicted Lobbyist Abramoff, a Friend
Jean O. Pasco Rep. Dana Rohrabacher offered a rare defense Monday of longtime friend and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty last week to influence peddling charges that have rocked Capitol Hill.
01/10/2006 (3) Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots
Miriam Pawel Farmworkers Reap Little as United Farmworkers Union (UFW) Strays From Its Roots. The movement built by Cesar Chavez has failed to expand on its early successes organizing poor rural laborers. As their plight is used to attract donations that benefit others, services for those in the fields are left to languish.
01/08/2006 (3) The United Farm Workers union: A Broken Contract
Miriam Pawel The United Fatm Workers movement built by Cesar Chavez has failed to expand on its early successes organizing poor rural laborers. Farmworkers reap little since the UFW has strayed from its roots. Their plight is used to attract donations that benefit others. Services for those in the fields languish.]
Chavez's heirs run a web of tax-exempt organizations that exploit his legacy and invoke the harsh lives of farmworkers to raise millions of dollars in public and private money. They broke with labor solidarity and hired nonunion workers to build the $3.2-million National Chavez Center around their founder's grave in the Tehachapi Mountains.
01/03/2006 (3) The war on San Diego's underground press--the San Diego Street Journal
David E. Kaplan The assault on the San Diego Street Journal was part of a massive campaign of government spying and dirty tricks directed for a decade against civil rights, antiwar, and other '60s-era activists. The war on the underground press, which at its peak claimed some 7 million readers a month, included efforts by the FBI, the CIA, Army intelligence, and local police to spy on and disrupt alternative newspapers.
From 1960 to 1974, the FBI created files on more than 1 million Americans and carried out over a half-million investigations of people deemed "subversives" --most of them engaged in constitutionally protected free speech.
01/02/2006 (3) Rev. Robert H. Schuller hands over leadership of Crystal Cathedral to his son
William Lobdell and Dan Weikel Rev. Robert H. Schuller hands over leadership of the Crystal Cathedral to his son, ending a half-century as pastor of a church he started in a drive-in movie theater and built into a worldwide ministry.
12/30/2005 (3) Candidate for Randy Cunningham's Seat Belongs to Group Supporting Bush's Initial Claims about WMDs in Iraq
Yochi J. Dreazen and John D. McKinnon Television commercials sponsorede by conservative Republicans say newly found Iraqi documents show that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, including anthrax and mustard gas, and had "extensive ties" to al Qaeda.
The hard-hitting spots are part of a public-relations barrage aimed at reversing a decline in public support for President Bush's handling of Iraq. These advertisements aren't paid for by the Republican National Committee or other established White House allies. They are sponsored by Move America Forward, a media- savvy outside advocacy group that has become one of the loudest -- and most controversial -- voices in the Iraq debate.
12/28/2005 (3) Obit: A Californian who made a difference: He said No to Internment
Matt Bai In February 1942, a little more than two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which effectively decreed that West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry - whether American citizens or not - were now "enemy aliens." More than 100,000 Japanese-Americans reported to government staging areas, where they were processed and taken off to 10 internment camps.
Years later, government lawyers offered Fred Korematsu a pardon; he refused. "As long as my record stands in federal court any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing." The judge agreed, ruling from the bench that Korematsu had been innocent. Just like that, the legality of the internment was struck down forever.
12/19/2005 (3) High Flying Randy Cunningham Shot Himself Down
Horace Coleman Representative Randy Cunningham's greed caused him to take bribes from defense contractors
12/16/2005 (3) Some Californnia Republicans to keep an eye on
Margaret Talev California's historic ties to defense industry and Indian tribal issues have made some lawmakers candidates for lobbyists' campaign money.
12/15/2005 (3) California ballot initiatives: Maybe it's time to revive the indirect initiative
Daniel Weintraub One good thing accomplished by the special election called by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this year is that it might be that direct democracy and the rules California uses to place issues in front of the voters were reconsidered.
12/11/2005 (3) Is Randy Cunningham the king of congressional corruption?
Thomas Oliphant THOSE OF US who are true fans of hypocrisy and corruption need to pause and salute Randy Cunningham on his way out of town toward the beckoning slammer.
12/11/2005 (3) Honduran rice farmers versus California rice farmers
Marla Dickerson and Evelyn Iritani Around the world, farmers large and small are skeptical about their ability to survive in an increasingly competitive global economy. Though expanded trade in farm products allows consumers to enjoy low prices and a wide array of exotic fruits and vegetables, the mounting pressures are squeezing farmers.
12/11/2005 (3) Poll Reveals Depth of California Voters' Mistrust
George Skelton California voters disdainrful and distrusting of Sacramento; don't have much trust in governor or Legislature
12/04/2005 (3) Should we kill this Crip?
Jervey Tervalon, et al
12/03/2005 (3) A culture of bribery in Congress
11/26/2005 (3) Where I Stand
Dr. Sam Hamod, editor, www.todaysalternativenews.com
11/14/2005 (3) A Knock on the Door, A Knock on the War
Steve Lopez
11/07/2005 (3) Get Out and Vote onTuesday, Nov. 8
Sam Hamod
11/05/2005 (3) Racism Rising in Southern California
David Holthouse and Janice Jordan
11/03/2005 (3) How I'm Voting on California Initiatives (Saying" No," to Arnold),from Barbara Boxer
Senator Barbara Boxer
08/06/2005 (3) We Applaud Mike Aguirre and Donna Frye For Attacking Corruption in San Diego
Sam Hamod
06/20/2005 (3) Schwarzenegger Is A Traitor to California
Sam Hamod
04/29/2005 (3) Orange County California Peace Calendar Update
Orange County Peace Groups
04/28/2005 (3) We Believe It Was Best That Dick Murphy Resigned as Mayor of San Diego
Sam Hamod
04/16/2005 (3) LA County Losing Population: People Getting Out
Beth Barrett
04/14/2005 (3) Few Turn Out to Support Schwarzenegger: Public's Turned Sour on Arnold
Sam Hamod and Dion Nissenbaum
03/17/2005 (3) Time to Sack Arnold, Before He Sacks California
Sam Hamod
03/11/2005 (3) Gov.Schwarzenegger Copies White House Lies: False Reporters
todaysalternativenews.com new service and what really happened
03/11/2005 (3) Gov.Schwarzenegger Copies White House Lies: False Reporters
todaysalternativenews.com new service and what really happened
03/08/2005 (3) We Applaud Mike Aguirre For Cleaning Up San Diego's Finances
Sam Hamod, editor, www.todaysalternativenews.com
02/08/2005 (3) Global Protest and Call Congress, No More War Spending, Spend Money on America
San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice
02/06/2005 (3) Isn't It Time Californians Realized Arnold Schwarzenegger Is A Fraud?
Sam Hamod
01/17/2005 (3) Don't Mourn, Protest on January 20
Robin McCubbin
01/17/2005 (3) We Salute Martin Luther King, Jr; One of the World's Great Leaders
Sam Hamod, editor, www.todaysalternativenews.com
12/24/2004 (3) May All of Mankind Have a Blessed Christmas
Sam Hamod , editor, www.todaysalternativenews.com
12/16/2004 (3) GI Resister, Pablo Paredes Refuses to Kill Iraqis
San Diego International Action Center
11/02/2004 (3) Vote for Mike Byron; Issa is a Bush boot-licker
Sam Hamod
11/02/2004 (3) Vote Busby; Vote No to Duke Cunningham (He does not speak the truth)
Francine Busby
11/02/2004 (3) Vote Yes on Prop. 66 in California
Janice Jordan edited and posted these articles
11/01/2004 (3) Our Voting Recommendations
Sam Hamod
08/29/2004 (3) Time For Duke Cunningham to Retire With Grace: He Doesn't Understand the Larger World
Sam Hamod
08/26/2004 (3) San Diego in Dire Straits Financially
Sam Hamod
08/24/2004 (3) After Jim Hightower Comes to Town: A Look Back
Chuck Lowery
08/24/2004 (3) Upcoming: Radical Spirituality Conference: In Sha Allah
Julia Hare and Marvin X
08/19/2004 (3) Mike Byron Mobilization Meeting: All Are Invited To Aid Democracy in America
Matt O'Connor
08/18/2004 (3) Grape Growers Abuse Workers: Asuncion Valdivia Dies by Negligence of Growers
Janice Jordan and Jennie Lopez
08/13/2004 (3) Racism in Temecula (translation of above story)
Fernando Suarez and Martin Eder
08/13/2004 (3) Racismo in Temecula
Fernando Suarez
08/12/2004 (3) Fundraiser for Leonard Peltier for President, Janice Jordan for Vice President
Staff of todaysalternativenews.com
08/07/2004 (3) Byron for Congress Campaign Target of Illegal Discrimination
Matt O'Connor
08/04/2004 (3) Ashcroft Wrong Again: People of Many Faiths Voice Their Support for El-Mazain
Kelly Thornton
08/02/2004 (3) We Choose Mike Byron Over Darrell Issa
Byron for Congress Committee
07/29/2004 (3) Mike Byron at the Democratic Convention, "Hope and Optimism"
Mike Byron
07/28/2004 (3) Why I Am In Boston At the Democratic Convention: Hope and Optimism
Mike Byron
07/28/2004 (3) Issa's Cash Interfering in North County Politics
Lola Sherman
07/27/2004 (3) "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" Aug. 2, 2004
Lake San Marcos Democratic Club
07/22/2004 (3) "Terrorism" and the Election: California is the Target
Wayne Madsen
07/13/2004 (3) Issa, Cunningham and Hunter Betray U.S. Constitution/Bill of Rights
Sam Hamod
07/06/2004 (3) Women of Islam: Veils and Seclusion ; Movie, Tonight, July 6, 10 pm KPBS
Film by Farheen Umar
06/29/2004 (3) La Resistancia Wants Volunteers in San Diego and in California
La Resistancia
06/01/2004 (3) Marines and Their Families Deserve Fair Treatment at Camp Pendleton
Tony Palmentere
06/01/2004 (3) North County Demonstrations for Peace:Unidos de Pinch Bush
Chuck Lowery
05/03/2004 (3) Free Lecture in San Diego on Palestine/Israel/USA and $ and Human Rights
Dr. Zahi Damuni if Al Awda
05/03/2004 (3) More Black Voters Purged From Voting Rolls: Lecture in San Diego on "Best Democracy Money Can Buy"
Greg Palast
04/30/2004 (3) Fraud and Waste at Camp Pendleton
Tom Calabrese
04/28/2004 (3) Gung Ho Mood Is Gone At Camp Pendleton
Rene Sanchez
04/19/2004 (3) Rules Committee in San Diego to Meet on Living Wage for San Diego
sdlivingwage.org
04/19/2004 (3) Military Families Speak Out Meeting
Military Familes Speak Out (mfso.org)
04/19/2004 (3) 3 Strikes and You're Out: Big Meeting About This Unnatural Law
Activist San Diego
04/19/2004 (3) Possible Collusion and Corruption On El Toro Marine Base Closing
Tom Calabrese
04/19/2004 (3) Petco Park and the Disasterous Consequences for San Diego
Sam Hamod
04/17/2004 (3) Sam Hamill, Poets Against The War, To Appear in Oceanside on April 18, 2004
Dick Eiden (Anti-War Poet)
04/17/2004 (3) Demonstration in San Diego and in the Rest of the World
San Diego Peace and Justice Community and Iraq Watch
03/30/2004 (3) CLG Updates
Lori Price
03/25/2004 (3) Diebold Voting Machines Do Not Perform (Alameda County, CA)
Staff and CLG
03/23/2004 (3) Help the Marines Get Better Housing, Mr. Bush
MIke Byron and John Kerry
03/04/2004 (3) Night of Mourning for Invasion of Iraq by San Diego Women
Janice Jordan and California Coaltion for Women Prisoners & Old Women's Project
02/23/2004 (3) Why We Steal From Marvin X
Marvin X
02/22/2004 (3) Chadwick and Orr No Longer Democrats, but are turncoats for money
Sam Hamod, Katherine Marks and Mike Byron
02/17/2004 (3) Feds Investigate San Diego Finances: Many of Us Wondered As Well
Sam Hamod and AP Wire Service
02/17/2004 (3) Demolition of Migrant Worker Camps Protested: Hamod Says It's a Bad Move By Carlsbad
Sam Hamod and Staff of Union Tribune
02/16/2004 (3) Mike Byron Questions Mayor Terry Johnson's Behavior
Michael P. Byron
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