According to federal data, federal law enforcement operations seized almost $1.9 billion worth of items from suspects nationwide last year, which is a drop from $2.6 billion just three years earlier. In California, Senate Bill 443 (SB 443) went into effect in 2017 and local law enforcement agencies have felt the effects of the slash […]

After recreational marijuana was legalized in California, prosecutors expected several petitions from people looking to clear their old criminal record. However, it appears that most people didn’t even try to petition to clear their records because it was a difficult task to navigate. Now, prosecutors in the counties of Los Angeles and San Joaquin have […]

A highly contagious and deadly bird virus was detected at a veterinary clinic in the Bay Area city of Redwood City last month, which has alarmed the Bay Area’s poultry community. The deadly bird disease is called Virulent Newcastle Disease and it has unfortunately spread north from Southern California. The disease was first reported on […]

Los Angeles County marked its eighth year in row of tourism growth last year and hosted an estimated 50 million visitors. The county set a tourism record, which was a 3.1 percent improvement of 2017’s visitors (48.5 million). The growth came thanks to a slight increase in international tourists. According to tourism officials, the number […]

It turns out that over 118,000 people were left off voter rosters on election day for the June 5 primary. This had state and county leaders demanding answers from the Los Angeles County elections chief regarding the mistake. The county Board of Supervisors called for an investigation and California Secretary of State Alex Padilla asked […]

According to KPCC, California’s top region for job growth is not in the Silicon Valley, where new tech jobs are getting all the attention, it’s the Inland Empire. According to Inland Empire economist John Husing’s annual economic forecast for 2018, jobs in San Bernardino and Riverside counties grew by 3.5 percent during 2017. This increase […]

The last freeway to be built in the Los Angeles County was the Century Freeway (Interstate 105) in 1993, which officials claimed would more than likely be the last of the great Southern California freeways. It appears that Southern California will get a new freeway because the California Department of Transportation, in cooperation with a […]

Fox & Hounds By: Annette Levi and Serhat Asci While urban and rural California may be miles apart geographically and politically, they could not be more interdependent economically. That’s what we found with a recent research project that determined nearly $3-billion of Southern California’s urban economy is directly linked to the state’s strawberry farming operations. […]

Some sad news has come to light as Los Angeles County’s library system is continuing to face an enormous structural deficit. It turns out that the County of Los Angeles Public Library system’s deficit is set to grow to almost $10.8 million annually by 2022. The system’s current operating deficit is around $1.2 million, and […]

Los Angeles County interim health officer, Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser is acting reckless and seems clueless with the Air Quality Management District’s air monitoring evaluations of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) in Los Angeles County by blaming a single industry for the problem. Dr. Gunzenhauser recently noted, “Based on recent evaluations of hexavalent chromium [also known as chromium […]