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174 Days and a Wake Up
Brendan O'Connor · 05/18/16 07:43AMHigh School Very Sorry for Misidentifying Muslim Student as "Isis" in Yearbook
Hudson Hongo · 05/08/16 07:25PMHamilton Nolan · 05/05/16 02:32PM
About 20 People Arrested After Donald Trump's First California Event in Months
Brendan O'Connor · 04/29/16 09:40AMAdvisors to Trump and Cruz Previously Worked for a Bloodthirsty Guatemalan Multimillionaire Who Promised to Broadcast Executions
Brendan O'Connor · 04/29/16 07:50AMToday, Tim Clark and Ron Nehring run Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s California presidential campaigns, respectively. But four years ago, the Guardian reports, the two men spent six weeks in Guatemala as paid advisors to Manuel Baldízon, a multimillionaire rightwing populist who promised to broadcast executions on television and lead the Guatemalan national soccer team to the World Cup.
California Raises Minimum Wage to $15, But Its Workers May Not Benefit Until 2022
Melissa Cronin · 03/27/16 09:30AMCalifornia lawmakers, working in tandem with labor unions, struck a deal to raise the statewide minimum—at first, to $10.50, with gradual increases to $15. The deal allowed lawmakers to avoid bringing the wage increase issue to a ballot, a vote which polls suggest California voters would overwhelmingly support.
Hamilton Nolan · 03/23/16 08:38AM
Teachers Can't Afford to Live Where They Teach
Hamilton Nolan · 03/22/16 04:30PMSecond-Class City Is First-Class Hellhole, of Traffic
Hamilton Nolan · 03/15/16 02:13PMMy Summer Job at the Bohemian Grove, Serving Milkshakes to the Shitfaced Global Elite
Sophie Weiner · 03/10/16 09:00AM“Anyone can aspire to be President of the United States, but few have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club,” Richard Nixon reportedly once said. But for a kid growing up in Sonoma County, California near the Bohemian Grove, the club’s ultra-exclusive campground, getting a service job there was easy.
San Francisco: Build More Housing, Assholes
Hamilton Nolan · 03/09/16 09:50AMAt Least 14 Injured in California Train Derailment
Brendan O'Connor · 03/08/16 12:23AMDonald Trump Admits in Deposition That He Never Vetted His "Hand-Picked" Instructors
Brendan O'Connor · 03/04/16 06:45PMIn two sworn depositions, unsealed Thursday, Donald Trump admitted that he had nothing at all to do with choosing the Trump University instructors, presented for years as his “hand-picked” representatives, who purported to impart his secret knowledge, itself born of years of experience and a Wharton education.
Three Stabbed as Ku Klux Klan Clashes with Counter-Demonstrators in California
Brendan O'Connor · 02/28/16 07:26PMBillionaire and Real Son of Bitch Asks for $30 Million to Let the Public on a Beach
Hamilton Nolan · 02/23/16 03:45PMJustice Department Announces "Comprehensive Review" of San Francisco Police Department
Brendan O'Connor · 02/01/16 07:09PMCops: Have You Seen Our Lost Gun? Please Give It Back
Sam Biddle · 01/27/16 02:14PMWell, boy, hoo... this is embarrassing, but the Orange County Sheriff’s Department just lost an AR-15 rifle. Have you seen it? It looks just like the one up there. Uh, if you find it, could you give it back? Listen, I know this looks bad, but do me a solid here. They put it on top of their car and then drove off. I guess it fell. Anyone?