If you travel often, you’ve likely noticed most U.S. airports have a few things in common: McDonald’s, Starbucks, Hudson News and other seemingly ubiquitous chains. At John Wayne Airport, those familiar brands won’t necessarily go away, but airport officials plan to give passengers new and different choices in where to eat, drink and shop in…
By Ben Christopher, CALmatters This Tuesday, voters in Long Beach turned out to elect a new state senator. Odds are that’s news to you—even if you happen to live in Long Beach. A preliminary tally indicates that less than a measly 7 percent of the district’s registered voters cast a ballot. Even by the subdued…
California is home to about one out of every five charter schools in the United States, but state oversight of them is far from a national model. Since the Charter Schools Act of 1992 was passed more than a quarter-century ago, a political standoff in Sacramento has made it almost impossible to…
You may not have heard of the irrepressible Corky Hale, but you almost certainly have heard her play. A vocalist, jazz pianist and harpist — the jazz harpist, some say — Hale has accompanied, well, just about everybody: Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Barbra Streisand, Liberace, Anita…
Southern California drivers short of passengers to use freeway carpool lanes find a ready supply at nearby bus stops.
Officials in Adelanto, home to California’s largest immigrant detention center, have decided to end the city’s contract with the facility, making it the second Southern California community this week to pull out of the immigrant detention business. Adelanto plans to terminate its agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and The GEO…
The federal government Thursday added to the pile of lawsuits challenging new state requirements to boost river flows in order to help struggling fish populations. The U.S. Department of the Interior, which manages California’s largest irrigation supply project, argues that the flow standards will…
The robot that inspected spent fuel canisters at San Onofre (Courtesy Southern California Edison) The robot is lowered into a vault in the Holtec Hi-Storm UMAX dry storage system at San Onofre. (Courtesy Southern California Edison) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds A clunky robotic device resembling a tiny car — equipped with a 3-D…
Investigators reviewing the case of Caren Carl Mandoyan, the Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy fired for misconduct only to be reinstated recently by Sheriff Alex Villanueva, learned that he was a member of a secret society of deputies known as the Reapers, according to documents reviewed by…
A Pennsylvania-based educational rights group is suing UCLA over its failure to release public records related to a campus visit by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education filed its lawsuit Wednesday and has asked for a court order forcing the university to respond to the records request. Mnuchin gave…
