by jpitney | Sep 10, 2025 | California Politics, Poverty
The US Census Bureau explains the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), a more accurate metric than the old measure: The SPM, first released in 2011 and produced in collaboration with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), extends the official poverty measure by...
by jpitney | Sep 1, 2025 | California Politics, Civility
Mark Z. Barabak at LAT: Jim Ross has had a long and fruitful career as a Democratic campaign strategist. Among his victories was electing Gavin Newsom as San Francisco mayor. Tom Ross has enjoyed similar success on the Republican side. He counts Kevin McCarthy’s...
by jpitney | Aug 20, 2025 | Agriculture, California Politics
Caroline Petrow-Cohen at LAT: The last factory in California that turns sugar beets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years, according to the company that owns the factory. The closure means the elimination of hundreds of local jobs and possibly the end of sugar...
by jpitney | Aug 14, 2025 | California Politics, Energy
Dan Walters at CalMatters: If and when Gavin Newsom launches a campaign for president, economic and social conditions in the California he’s governed for two terms will be in the spotlight. While Newsom brags incessantly about the state and its achievements, its...
by jpitney | Aug 5, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Los Angeles, Mass Media, Newspapers
Sara Fischer at Axios: New York Post Media Group, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., will launch a new, daily Los Angeles-based newspaper called “The California Post” in early 2026, the New York Post’s editor-in-chief Keith Poole told...
by jpitney | Aug 2, 2025 | California Politics, Los Angeles
Melody Patterson at LAT: State regulators, knowing that old transmission lines could set off wildfires, proposed a safety rule in 2001 that would have forced Edison and other utilities to remove abandoned lines unless they could prove they would use them in the...
