This expanded "summer recess" edition covers viable revenue-related proposed measures that impact local governments.
California’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% in June. San Mateo County has the lowest unemployment rate (2.2%). Imperial has the highest (18.6%).
Mono County’s next chief administrative officer hails all the way from the Rocky Mountains.
Over the past two years, MS-13 gang members have committed at least seven murders in the Los Angeles area, dumping the bodies of rival gang members in remote locations from Hollywood to the Malibu Hills. That’s according to a 78-page indictment against 22 people unsealed last week.
This is why we can't have nice things.
The department’s former professional standards and training division chief Alicia Ault resigned after 34 years with the LASD after receiving an "unethical" order.
“Every earthquake actually increases the probability of more earthquakes,” one geophysicist told the Los Angeles Times.
The Monterey County Planning Commission made a recommendation on industrial hemp last week and it’s clearly siding with the crop.
Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors is on the lookout for a new chief executive officer.
The Santa Clara County Jail and Sheriff’s Department will soon have new oversight, four years after the beating death of mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree.
More than a thousand public retirees in California are earning pensions that exceed the federal limit of $220,000, according to data from CalPERS.