Like millions of Americans, I closely watched two nights of debates among the Democratic presidential contenders. I came away persuaded that the party is indeed bending left, and that any one of the candidates presents a welcome contrast to the corporatism, cruelty and mendacity of the current…
When I first visited Kenton Stacy at the Veterans Affairs hospital in La Jolla, I knew his wife, Lindsey, would be there. I’d been told to expect his mother, too, out from Ohio. Geoff Shepelew surprised me. He’s a Navy bomb technician, and as I quickly learned, part of an unbroken chain of support…
At 6:42 a.m. on June 29, 1925, the city of Santa Barbara was heavily damaged by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake. Thirteen people were killed.
Sera Segal-Alsberg wears a mask designed to filter out airborne particles during a Los Angeles smog alert.
California regulators opened an investigation Thursday to consider penalties against Southern California Gas Co. for a massive 2015 natural gas leak blamed for sickening thousands of nearby residents and forcing them from their homes. The California Public Utilities Commission made the decision…
If California is serious about fixing its housing challenges, it should wean its cities off the sales tax gravy train. Until local municipalities are properly motivated to build, not much will change. And the only persuasion that makes cities jump is cash. Currently, cities are addicted to boosting sales tax collection because it’s about the…
An Iraqi general whose forces partnered with American troops during a 2017 U.S. deployment to Mosul was shown in video testimony Thursday, June 27, saying he was at a teen ISIS fighter’s side and never saw Navy SEAL Edward “Eddie” Gallagher do anything but try to save the boy’s life. Gallagher is on trial for…
Immigrant activists and many leaders of government agencies in Southern California expressed relief Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that at least temporarily blocks the Trump administration’s plan to ask residents about their citizenship status on the 2020 Census. But others who favor a citizenship question on the census were frustrated by…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a complaint against a Santa Ana businessman accused of using YouTube and paid Vietnamese-language television to lure people into what authorities describe as a $2.4 million investment scam. Richard Vu Nguyen, also known as Nguyen Thanh Vu, is accused of misappropriating roughly $600,000, lying about his credentials and…
LOS ANGELES – Air quality samples collected near the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility during the 2015 blowout that led to the largest-known human-caused release of methane in U.S. history showed elevated levels of pollutants known or suspected to be associated with serious health problems, according to a UCLA Fielding School of Public Health-led…
