Last Friday’s monthly jobs report through May 2014 showed payroll jobs increasing by 18,300 over the month and 341,000 payroll jobs over the year. In

This post was going to be about making fun of the over-the-top triumphalism among conservatives and education “reformers” about the Vergara decision on teacher tenure

America—arguably the world’s most diverse, innovative, and surprising nation—is becoming a lot more predictable. And boring. According to the most recent Pew Research Poll on

The loss by Eric Cantor to Dave Brat is indeed a political earthquake with aftershocks still rippling through the congress. Is the Tea Party resurgent?  What

While not without controversy, the recent budget agreement between Governor Brown and the state Legislature was welcomed positively by the media and public. The state’s

Surprisingly, the California Energy Commission (CEC) recently decided to seize regulatory authority over power consumption and energy efficiency of consumer electronics (CE) devices. But what

Betty Yee or John Perez? California’s too close to call race for state controller comes down to a few thousand uncounted votes in Lake County. With 83 percent of

Nearly 100 municipalities in California have banned the distribution of lightweight plastic shopping bags and imposed mandatory fees on the distribution of recycled paper bags.