Southern California Focus

• February 3, 2012

  • Three-strikes law only meant for serious offenders

• January 31, 2012

  • Effort to improve cars draws the usual misguided opposition

• January 24, 2012

  • California seeing a different Jerry Brown this year

• January 20, 2012

  • State GOP continues its decline since election of Schwarzenegger

• January 17, 2012

  • Will 2012 be the year to restore Prop 13’s original intent?

• January 13, 2012

  • Do state campuses condone anti-Semitism?

• January 10, 2012

  • State budget wouldn't look very different with Whitman

• January 6, 2012

  • Biggest tax hike obstacle: resentment of public employees

• January 3, 2012

  • Why California will lose clout in Congress, and where

• December 30, 2011

  • Fall votes spur sudden spate of tax-hike pushes

• December 27, 2011

  • Crybaby GOP won’t face up to its real problems

• December 23, 2011

  • New High-speed rail vote needed, not likely

• December 20, 2011

  • Brown leadership must key California revival

• December 16, 2011

  • US Chamber of Commerce continues attack on state's rules

• December 13, 2011

  • State's big water deals looking shaky

• December 9, 2011

  • Qualifying ballot measures gets tougher

• December 6, 2011

  • Income differences: At least one ‘Occupy’ gripe is real

• December 2, 2011

  • Military base closures a culprit in state fiscal troubles

• November 22, 2011

  • Climate change doubts behind attack on Air Resources Board

• November 15, 2011

  • Pensions, prisons give Brown ‘Nixon-to-China' moments

• November 11, 2011

  • FBI stats reveal Perry wrong in border war with Obama

• November 8, 2011

  • Barking up the wrong technology trees?

• November 4, 2011

  • No new taxes translated: Do it yourself

• November 1, 2011

  • Will high-speed rail move onto a slower track?

• October 28, 2011

  • Campaign treasurer victims shouldn't get a redo

• October 25, 2011

  • Ranked-choice voting gets another test in S.F.

• October 18, 2011

  • Medical marijuana taken over by profiteers, federal prosecutors say

• October 14, 2011

  • Feinstein extremely vulnerable? Guess again

• October 11, 2011

  • State Republicans show signs of once again ignoring Latinos

• October 7, 2011

  • Proposition 140 fails; same politicians keep reappearing in government jobs

• October 4, 2011

  • State setting national trends, even in hard times

• September 30, 2011

  • Will utilities commission let gas companies saddle consumers with pipeline costs?

• September 27, 2011

  • Lack of change in Air Resources Board's leadership adds to agency's stigma

• September 20, 2011

  • Citizen remap fulfills purpose, shakes up politics

• September 16, 2011

  • Prop. 13 changes could become a necessity

• September 13, 2011

  • Some questions for Brown on appointment imbalance

• September 6, 2011

  • Oil severance tax to be huge initiative battle

• August 30, 2011

  • New ‘can't-do’ spirit moves primary back to June

• August 26, 2011

  • California GOP’s Rick Perry boomlet misguided

• August 23, 2011

  • UC, CSU pricing out the middle class

• August 19, 2011

  • Lessons from Europe's Thalys bullet train

• August 12, 2011

  • Greed drives Amazon anti-tax initiative

• August 9, 2011

  • The brownest of Gov. Brown's budget cuts

• August 5, 2011

  • Yet another silly, hopeless state-split proposal

• August 2, 2011

  • Whining over new districts is pure sour grapes

• July 29, 2011

  • California recovery depends on housing industry

• July 26, 2011

  • What we will and won’t have under new budget

• July 22, 2011

  • Echoes of ancient anti-Semitism in circumcision move

• July 19, 2011

  • Who’s clean among potential bullet train bidders?

• July 12, 2011

  • Are foreign grad students good for the US?