California's Department of Industrial Relations slapped the owners of the Westover Winery with more than $115,000 in fines and assessments for using volunteer workers.
Can education reform triumph? Or will the union reign?
Red tape is driving some workers underground, so already-licensed workers are calling for even more red tape.
Stay tuned. If Proposition 47 passes, it will be another sign that the days are over of winning political points by promising to execute teens.
They want to punish "greedy, wealthy" CEOs to "help California's economy."
This completely undermines the governor's pension reform law. Will he let that happen?
California just decided your silence sounds awfully guilty.
A California Democrat is cooking up something very un-democratic.
California tries to lift the bucket it's standing in.
They like one-sided research. They don't like that this research paints them as cheap.
For-profit schools get deserved flak, but the public universities lock kids into years of debt, too.
Gov. Jerry Brown has the power to exonerate them, but he won't use it.
How California Democrats are trying to get into your bedroom.
Casino moguls and their powerful interests are feigning moral outrage to crush competitors.
Should job security for teachers continue to trump the educational rights of students, especially poor ones?
California Senate passes bill to rein in the voter initiative process
Getting oil out of the US's largest reserve is going to be much harder than expected. So why are some people celebrating?
California is tackling high school football practice.
Obamacare's champions fear a ballot initiative could strangle Covered California with profiteering, delays, and too much bureaucracy.
Democrats are pitting African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos against each other.
The agency formed so workers have a voice won't let them use that voice.
The $68 billion high-speed boondoggle may not comply with its legal promise.
Special interest groups are stopping Mariko Yamada's raw milk bill.
The state has been harassing him for decades
Legislators in the Golden State make Breaking Bad seem mild by comparison.
Americans have become so accustomed to regulations, we've ceased to see how freedom might operate.
Prop. 209 would have hurt Asian-Americans in the name of diversity.
Can a quasi-judicial agency impose fines without first taking property owners to court?
The case isn't just about guns, but also about what it means for the public to have "rights."
The Kelly Thomas case makes it hard to be optimistic about police.
Talking about a problem is one thing, and using one's political capital to fix it is quite another.
Starting in 2014, the state will keep a list of every gun owner and the specific guns each person buys.
Increasingly, the public may be seeing that the problem isn't a handful of officials who illegally gamed the system, but a system that allows a powerful minority to legally game the majority.
Perhaps Huy Fong officials will seek out locations that don't subject them to lawsuits and costly production stoppages.
We shouldn't have to wait for a city to crumble before it can get control of its debts.
Remember how well Cash for Clunkers worked out?
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