An African-American couple in California is rightfully upset about the middle school their child will attend having a long-standing "Civil War Ball." Chris Jackson and Vicki Snowden-Jackson were not happy.
The massive growth of the wine industry has led to a very real problem--wine monocultures that transform ecologically complex places such as the hills of Napa County into carefully manicured.
An interesting case out of California may eventually be another stage in the Supreme Court repealing labor law that helps workers. In 2002, California passed a law to help farmworkers.
Dayen suggests that in the context of the Republican tax plan, it is time for California to repeal Prop 13. The natural response to this turn of events would be.
It's a little hard to fathom today, but for many decades, Los Angeles was an unbelievably conservative city. Of course it was the home of Nixon and Reagan. In 1910,.
On June 21, 1935, three members of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union were murdered at the Holmes-Eureka Mill in Eureka, California, by anti-union enforcers of the company. This violent.
On March 24, 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Tydings-McDuffie Act. Better known as the Philippine Independence Act, Tydings-McDuffie initially sounds like a victory for anti-colonialist forces. However, a.
I know people are desperate right now and I don't want to be overly chiding of our commenters. But the discussion in this post about California secession is beyond useless..
