Xavier Becerra on the California ‘Resistance’
California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra on how, whether, and why his state will "resist" Trump-era national policies. Another Californian on the left.
Category Archives: California
California Guard soldiers wona t be forced to repay bonuses
Thousands of California National Guard troops will not have to repay enlistment bonuses and benefits they received a decade after they signed up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a deal between House and Senate negotiators. Rep. Adam Schiff, whose congressional district includes Burbank, Glendale and the Pasadena area, said legislation will ensure soldiers who were required to pay back bonuses and benefits “they received in good faith are not the subject of clawbacks both now or in the future.” Southern Calfornia native John Bischler, who spent 13 years in the National Guard, said he was cautiously optimistic about the compromise.
Pelosi beats back challenge to be re-elected House Democratic leader
In this Nov. 17 file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Presidential election sparks a rise in campus unrest
In what might be shaping up as an echo of the 1960s, campuses in Southern California and around the country are responding to a pending Trump presidency with all manner of mourning and protest. Cry-ins, class walkouts, marches all have become routine parts of campus life in recent weeks, a response to the election of a candidate who denied climate change, repeatedly made statements viewed as misogynistic, and called for building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Michael Downing talks with Sayed…
Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Michael Downing talks with Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini, founding Imam of the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County at a news conference at the Islamic Center of Southern California in Los Angeles Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Government officials have condemned a hate-filled letter received by several California mosques that said Muslims would be exterminated by President-elect Donald Trump.
A Californian will be the first woman of color elected to House…
Reps. Barbara Lee and Linda Sanchez are facing off for a spot in House leadership. A woman of color will be elected to join House leadership this week for the first time, and she'll be a Democrat from California.
California’s biggest Obamacare insurer not a oerunning for the hillsa
The chief executive of Blue Shield of California, the largest insurer on the state-run marketplace, says he's committed to selling coverage even as Republicans pursue a repeal of the federal health law. In an interview this week with California Healthline, Paul Markovich also criticized President-elect Donald Trump's support for the sale of insurance plans across state lines in order to boost competition and consumer choice.
New Aerial Survey Identifies More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million on 7.7 million acres of California's drought stricken forests.
The strange tale of a congressmana s fight to build a U.S. listening post in the Azores
A powerful California congressman of Portuguese descent has pushed for years for the installation of a costly U.S. intelligence facility in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic. On Thursday, Rep. Devin Nunes of Visalia, the Republican chair of the House intelligence committee, kept at his campaign, confronting two senior Pentagon officials and the top U.S. intelligence chief over why they favored a site in England.
John Garamendi
Fifteen of California's 53 congressional districts are expected to see competitive races in the November election. Among the most interesting congressional races: Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, faces Republican Dr. N. Eugene Cleek, a surgeon and farmer from Orland who has received the National Republican Congressional Committee's "Young Guns" label and support.
Doug LaMalfa
California's $64 billion high-speed rail plan lacks reliable funding sources and is in danger of ending up with only one line that doesn't connect to San Francisco or Los Angeles, members of a Congressional panel said Monday during a hearing. Proceeds from a state environment program that is supposed to help fund the project were far below expectations and private funding for the train has yet to materialize, Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a California Republican, said.
Obama urged to protect immigration in his remaining term
The Obama Administration should protect those "dreamers," who were brought to the United States illegally but later granted legal temporary status to stay, a U.S. congresswoman said on Tuesday. The Obama Administration in the remaining term should take legal action to prevent those who enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals , and Deferred Action for Parents of American and Lawful Permanent Residents programs from being deported, said Judy Chu, the first Chinese American congresswoman.
Loretta Sanchez went all-in on a failed bid for California’s…
U.S. Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez holds a press conference in October to criticize the mortgage settlement made by Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, now California's senator-elect, outside the Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles.
Villaraigosa says he wants to be a uniter as he runs for governor
He'll be finishing his fourth. The limit is two. But his first two were freebies in the 1970s before Californians imposed term limits.
Silicon Valley’s Annoying Secessionist Fever Dream: Elaine Ou
Many of the California tech industry's leaders are unhappy with the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. This being Silicon Valley, they've come up with an innovative response: Secede from the union.
Statea s climate rules may be threatened by a Trump presidency
After eight years in which California had a partner in President Barack Obama in expanding renewable energy and electric vehicles, signing international deals and writing tougher pollution laws to the consternation of industry and Republicans, the election of Donald Trump now sets up the Golden State as a land in environmental exile. Experts say it's about to become a country within a country, moving sharply in the opposite direction of the White House and Congress on climate change and environmental policy, as California sets its own agenda with sympathetic states and countries.
This is how a Trump hater made peace with a Trump presidency
It was heartening to see a photo of President Barack Obama shaking hands with President-elect Donald Trump, an image that was quickly distorted by social media memes and discredited by countless digital voices. The duty to a purpose greater than individual interests, an ideal central to the American experience, has been one of the casualties of this election cycle of instant analysis and incompatible viewpoints.
California awakes to shocking new political landscape
California woke up Wednesday to a stunning new reality: Republican Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States, with congressional majorities that will empower him to pursue an agenda most of the state finds objectionable and some consider dangerous. Having delivered 55 electoral votes to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the most of any state, Californians watched with surprise - and, in many cases, horror - as Trump pulled off arguably the greatest upset in modern political history, smashing through Clinton's supposedly formidable get-out-the-vote operation in crucial swing states like Florida and Ohio.
Donald Trump Election Gives Boost To Longshot California Secession Plan
NOVEMBER 09: Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City. Donald Trump defeated Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States.
From loyal to lost? Vietnamese voters and the California GOP
In this photo taken Oct. 20, 2016, Ly Truong Xuan, 72, watches as his wife Kim Ha-Ly, 67, makes Ca phe da in their Woodbridge, Va. Vietnamese and other Asian-Americans have shifted from being majority Republican supporters to overwhelmingly Democrat.