Tag: California

Total funding provided for the Bay Delta project by all parties equaled approximately $257.3 million. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Energy and Environment

Obama officials gave contractors tens of millions of dollars in improper conservation funds: Watchdog

John Siciliano · September 8, 2017 7:52 pm

California lawmakers in both houses voted Tuesday to commemorate former President Barack Obama by renaming a stretch of Highway 134, now called the Ventura Freeway, honoring his local ties as a former student of Occidental College and resident of Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

California lawmakers vote to rename freeway after Obama

Kara Zupkus · September 6, 2017 7:50 pm

The current proposal only applies to public streets and would allow private businesses to refuse service to those not wearing shoes or shirts. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Berkeley debates letting women go topless in public

Sean Langille · September 5, 2017 8:46 pm

California is moving to make it easier for transgender people to identify as the gender of their choice with legislation that would give residents a way to pick one's preferred sex on all state documents, including birth certificates and driver's licenses. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

California would be first to give residents a third gender option

Anna Giaritelli · September 4, 2017 4:01 am

Footage emerged last week of masked ruffians beating a man as he writhed on the ground at Berkeley's campus. What had he done? The goons assumed, without evidence, that he was an alt-right supporter, or at least a Trump voter. (Anda Chu /San Jose Mercury News via AP, File)

Moral equivalence between fascists and antifa? Absolutely

Dan Hannan · September 4, 2017 4:01 am

San Francisco was under an "excessive heat warning" on Friday, but that didn't stop employees at the Russian consulate from lighting up the fireplace. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Twitter parodies the black smoke rising from Russian consulate in San Francisco

Victor I. Nava · September 1, 2017 10:41 pm

Black smoke rises from the roof of the Consulate-General of Russia Friday in San Francisco. The U.S. on Thursday ordered Russia to shut its San Francisco consulate and close offices in Washington and New York within 48 hours in response to Russia's decision last month to cut U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia. Fireman were called to the consul, but were turned away after being told there was no problem. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

National Security

Smoke billows from Russian consulate in San Francisco on the eve of its closure

Victor I. Nava · September 1, 2017 8:57 pm

"We're not investigating Antifa as Antifa -- that's an ideology and we don't investigate ideologies," FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Beltway Confidential

For ‘anti-fascists,’ fascism is a straw man

Emily Jashinsky · September 1, 2017 3:16 pm

A Beating in Berkeley

Matt Labash · September 1, 2017 7:00 am

Several cities throughout the country have already renamed the holiday. (Robbt/Flickr)

Los Angeles votes to rename Columbus Day ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’

Ariella Phillips · August 31, 2017 1:43 am

It was the strongest criticism of the violent Left from any Democratic leader to date and not a single major conservative publication took note. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Conservatives better welcome Nancy Pelosi as a free speech ally against the Antifa mob

Philip Wegmann · August 30, 2017 9:52 pm

Her statement drew hisses, jeers, and yells of "no," when she expressed a willingness to work with President Trump. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein: ‘I’m under no illusion’ Trump will change

Sean Langille · August 30, 2017 9:14 pm