(This post first appeared on the Drucker Exchange, a daily blog produced by the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. It appears here with permission.) The man...
By Lenny Goldberg, California Tax Reform Association, and Roy Ulrich, Goldman School of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley (This article first appeared in the California Progress Report.) Jerry...
(The following news announcement was issued by the Harvard Business School.) Research published today in Science sheds light on a hot-button political issue: the role and...
(The following post appeared yesterday on California Progress Report; a slightly shorter version was first posted on the Consumer Federation of California‘s Web site.) By...
By Carl Franzen (Note: Last January Donald Cohen wrote here of the conservative political animus against new, green lighting technologies – namely, compact fluorescent light bulbs...
(The following action alert comes from ClimatePlan.org; news of the alert first appeared at Housing California, which lists 18 Los Angeles County projects that could be...
(The following post first appeared May 1 on Truthdig.) By Bill Boyarsky By chance, the revelation of how Apple evades millions of dollars in taxes...
“About 100 Occupy protesters,” reports the Pasadena Star News, “seeking to reverse an eviction gathered Tuesday outside the Pasadena house of a Bank of America executive...
(The following announcement has previously appeared on other Web sites, including LA Progressive.) Practically everyone has an opinion about Obama’s health care, but few understand it,...
By Rebecca Band (This post first appeared May 7 on the Labor’s Edge blog site.) One BILLION Dollars. That’s how much California gives away every...
By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California As California families continue to reel from the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, health insurance premium...
By Shomari Davis It’s no secret that the disappearance of manufacturing in Los Angeles and other urban centers over the past few decades has hit communities...
(Editor’s Note: This post, written by Twilight Greenaway, originally appeared on Grist, about the same time a bribery scandal allegedly involving Mexican Walmart officials began unfolding.) Shrimp...
(Editor’s Note: This post, by Kathleen Peine, originally appeared at L.A. Progressive.) There’s something buried in a new Pennsylvania law and it’s every bit as toxic as...
(Our coverage of Los Angeles’ 1992 civil unrest continues with this post by Martín Hernandez, a former Bus Riders Union organizer, L.A. Weekly theater critic and...
(Photographer Ted Soqui’s account of the 1992 events, as told to Frying Pan News, appears below. He covered the violence for the L.A. Weekly and created...
Why is this recovery different from all other recoveries? Many of the reasons are widely known: Rebounding from a financial crisis takes an excruciatingly long time;...
This month Frying Pan News is presenting personal stories of the April 29-May 4, 1992 explosion that has been called everything from a riot to a...
By Johnny 5 Hanrahan I, along with 30 other talented, hardworking crew members, was fired recently from a successful, internationally popular TV show called 1000 Ways...
By Kate Sheppard (This post originally appeared on Mother Jones .) Climate Central has released a new in-depth report on the combined impacts of rising seas and...