Why California’s economy needs more bad news
What’s feels like bad news for your wallet may actually be good news for California’s economy. As the year started, I concluded in a column that certain “negative” trends could actually be
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California doctor arrested on suspicion of Medicare fraud totaling $6 million
A Porter Ranch woman is facing criminal charges of creating phony home health care certifications that led to more than $6 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare, federal authorities announced
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Salesforce, Google, Facebook: How Big Tech undermines California’s public health system
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has embraced Silicon Valley tech companies and health care industry titans in response to the covid-19 pandemic like no other governor in America — routinely outsourcing
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Caitlyn Jenner to Critics: ‘I Move on’ She Says in Interview
Caitlyn Jenner, a Republican whose campaign for California governor has elicited angry reaction from some members of the LGBTQ community, said Wednesday that “I move on” when it comes to
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Facebook Oversight Board upholds Donald Trump’s suspension from the platform
Facebook can keep blocking former President Donald Trump from using its platform, the social network’s court-like Oversight Board said Wednesday. The landmark move affirms the company’s decision to suspend Trump
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Jenner Says Transgender Girls in Women’s Sports Is ‘Unfair’
Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic champion and reality TV personality now running for California governor, said she opposes transgender girls competing in girls’ sports at school. Jenner, a 1976 decathlon
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President’s federal tax plan could hit California hard
A cosmic convergence of events in Washington and Sacramento last week demonstrated how strongly federal and state tax systems are interconnected. President Joe Biden, it was revealed, will ask Congress
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Bay Area employers wait and see on mandatory COVID vaccines
Of the many problems confronting Bay Area companies as they move out of pandemic lockdowns and into the workplaces of the future, one issue is proving especially thorny: Do they
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Disneyland & Co. reopenings can’t fix 58% of California job cuts
Buzz: The reopening of Disneyland’s theme parks and its tourist-attraction peers across California aren’t a miracle cure for the state’s battered job market. That’s because industries outside of leisure and
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Biden plan for cleaner power system faces daunting obstacles
If the nation is to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of cutting America’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade, it will have to undertake a
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