Steven Greenhut: From the EPA: U.S. EPA’s Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld will today announce details of the Agency’s proposal to ban all sewage discharges from large cruise ships and most other large ocean-going ships to the marine waters along California’s ent...

Katy Grimes: A bill seeking to give away more student financial aid passed in the Assembly yesterday in a 60-0 vote. When Assemblyman Chris Norby stood to speak about it, Assembly members braced in preparation for his usual opposition. However, proving just how good the bill must be, Norby said, ...

John Seiler: Reports Capitol Alert: Speaking today at the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Republican governor had no qualms about attacking public employee unions, whom he blamed for high costs everywhere in government. On pension costs: "All of a sudden you have to take money away fro...

Anthony Pignataro: It's finally happened. We've all known that not agreeing upon a state budget (this is Day 55 without a budget for those not keeping track at home) costs us all dearly, but now the calamity is starting to affect a group of Californians most people probably thought even state politi...

Katy Grimes: California's legislators passed a joint resolution for the federal government to allow the Census Bureau to collect information about the sexual orientation and gender identity of America's residents. Well, not all of the state's legislators voted for this. Sen. Christine Kehoe, ...

John Seiler: As a punctuation point to my recent article, "L.A. spends $30K per student," the LAUSD is opening it's new $578 million school. It will have, incredibly, 4,200 students. This isn't school, it's an educational gulag. Imagine spending 13 of the best years of your life cooped up there. ...