I guess we've now reached the point in the presidential cycle when hometown newspapers write ridiculous articles promoting local candidates for a presidential run. If he weren’t the nation’s oldest governor, a ripe 75, Jerry Brown would automatically be counted among serious Democratic candidates for...
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I can't see how this isn't the greatest endorsement of the Democratic Party ever: “Saturday Night Live” alumnus and “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” actor Rob Schneider appeared in a short.
On October 1, 1910, International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers member James McNamara blew up the Los Angeles Times building because the paper's publisher, Harrison Gray Otis, was.
$10 an hour is not enough to live on, especially in California. But the Golden State creating the highest minimum wage in the nation is a major step in the right direction. Hopefully a national $10 wage will become an important progressive priority soon.
On August 3, 1913, the Wheatland Riot took place in California, leading to four deaths, including two workers and two law enforcement agents. A burst of violence caused by the.
Once again, we see illegal marijuana farmers in California causing a huge toll on the local ecology, including the death of threatened species. The only way to deal with this.
In Carson, California, Shell Oil used to have an oil tank farm. Then, thanks to America's lax environmental regulatory state, a housing development was built on top of it when Shell no longer needed it. Shell claims the land is safe and they have no...
The true victims of police violence against protestors are always the cops. The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is.
Last week, BART workers went on strike, shutting down the region's major mass transit service for a few days. The strike has ended with what will ultimately be a victory.
I've talked about this issue before a couple of times, so I'm really glad to see the New York Times report on the awful environmental impact of unregulated marijuana production in northern California. The animal, a Pacific fisher, had been poisoned by an anticoagulant in...
On May 6, 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Although not often seen by the general public as part of our labor history, the Chinese Exclusion.
This is a fascinating piece on Ken Gonzales-Day, the artist and author who explores the history of lynching in the American West. We usually think of lynching as something that.