Last month, the city of Los Angeles revealed that Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles Police Department security detail has cost nearly $450,000 since 2015 as Garcetti visited other parts of the United States and foreign countries. The figures were revealed due to a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Times, which is seeking to determine […]

Last month, state regulators seized troubled Santa Rosa-based State Assistance Fund for Enterprise, Business and Industrial Development Corporation (SAFE-BIDCO) and announced plans to liquidate the state-chartered nonprofit. The 36-year-old organization, which is devoted to helping small businesses obtain loans, had been under scrutiny after a scathing state audit in April found that it risked going […]

Two California politicians have introduced bills that are meant to stop the construction of the border wall. California State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) have introduced Senate Bill 30 (SB 30) and Assembly Bill 946 (AB 946), which is called the Resist the Wall Act, in response to the […]