Tag: california

According to New America Media founder/executive director Sandy Close, ethnic voters “are the make or break in 2012’s elections.”

A bloody attack on a 56-year-old Sikh preacher in the city of Fresno last week has rattled the local community.

A new California law gives agencies on aging a more realistic measure of elders’ needs than the U.S. poverty line.

In some of California's top strawberry-growing counties, levels of banned methyl bromide are only slightly lower than they were a decade ago.

Blacks in California are breathing a sign of relief after GOP tricks during the redistricting process failed to redraw them out of electoral maps.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports that 6,600 prisoners in at least 13 of the state’s prisons have joined a hunger strike.

The first batch of political maps by California’s new Citizens Redistricting Commission is having exactly the effect that government reformers intended—shaking up the political status quo by ignoring incumbents and promising to make many statewide elections more competitive.

Between 2008 and 2010, an alarming number of public school children in California became newly eligible for free and reduced-cost meal programs in nearly every county of the state, according to recently released data.