BravoOh boy. If you think The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is disgusting, have we got a show for you. Well, actually, we don't. All we know is that this proposed Real Housewives poseur will focus on the relationships between the Westside's super rich and their help. Let's just hope they ... More >>
​You probably didn't need a Field Poll to know that voters are not happy about Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child. But it never hurts to have the data, and they confirm that indeed the story has destroyed whatever remained of his public standing.Just 20% of California voters approve of Schwarzeneg ... More >>
Hello MagazinePhoto shoot!Of all possible media outlets, Schwarzenegger mistress Mildred "Patty" Baena has chosen to speak with England's Hello Magazine for her much-anticipated coming-out interview. (She's been hiding out since news of her love child with the former California governor broke ... More >>
Ve vant females.Updated at the bottom: Schwarzenegger's top cops, and a Hyatt manager, say this is absolutely untrue. As if fathering a love child with the help hasn't been enough, now comes an allegation that Arnold Schwarzenegger used at least some of his California Highway Patrol security ... More >>
I won't be back.Following this week's love child revelations, Arnold Schwarzenegger said today through his lawyer that he's putting his Hollywood comeback on hold. That put to rest speculation that, while bad for political aspirations, sleeping around and getting mad headlines for it, even w ... More >>
Arnold Schwarzenegger​Reporting that former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a love child with a member of his household staff, the LA Times finally published a story it's been after for years. In 2003, the Times assigned dozens of reporters to find Schwarzenegger's then-rumored love child ... More >>
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver on their wedding day.Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver are living apart while they figure out what to do about their troubled marriage, according to the Los Angeles Times. She has moved out of the fantastic Brentwood home they share. The former ... More >>
Google MapsDis is like a big house and all dees tings.Get ready Westsiders. If you didn't fully enjoy the spectacle of President Obama's last few visits, then here's your chance to observe another media frenzy. Prince William and his new wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, are rumored ... More >>
Arnold.CBS 2 reporter Dave Bryan won't let former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger live down his last-minute sentence reduction for the manslaughtering son of a powerful state Democratic leader. And so he dogged the Governator today, asking him, Why? The gov wasn't having it, saying "Don't ask me ... More >>
​In California, the rights of crime victims pretty much fly under the radar. After all, we have a Victim's Bill of Rights, which voters approved as a constitutional amendment in 2008, and for the most part, advocates say, district attorneys do a decent job of keeping victims informed and part of ... More >>
Esteban Nunez.Did the Governator violate California's own rules when he reduced the prison sentence of Esteban Nunez, son of pal Fabian Nunez? A lawsuit filed this week claims he did. Baby Nunez was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison for his involvement in the 2008 ... More >>
By Michael Collins Schwarzenegger goes green again on chemical initiativeIn the face of withering media coverage in LA Weekly and elsewhere, the Schwarzenegger Administration has pulled an about-face on the gutting of new chemical regulations by the state's Department of Toxic Substances Con ... More >>
Rock & Roll LibraryWho could say no to a children's hospital?Californians want to have their cake, eat it too, but sure as hell not pay for it after the 2010 state election, a new USC poll shows. "Twenty-million-dollar deficit BAD, health care and education GOOD!," said three of every four v ... More >>
​Arnold Schwarzenegger cast his ballot this morning in Brentwood, but refused to say who got his vote for governor.He said he'll make the announcement this evening. Given that Meg Whitman is opposed to AB 32, the climate change law that Schwarzenegger considers his legacy, you'd expect him to have ... More >>
charityguide.orgDespite the state's budget woes. the state legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger found money to fund a new law that funds foster care benefits for some as old as 21 -- for the children literally left behind. It might sound like an unnecessary luxury, but trust us when we ... More >>
Ah, the California legislature. It can't balance a budget to save the state's life. Nineteen million plastic bags in landfills, waterways and gutters each year? No prob for this bunch. And one-third of all bills in Sacramento have special-interest sponsors and are twice as likely to pass as t ... More >>
According to a Field Poll released Wednesday (PDF), Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's approval rating is at a all-time low, matching Democratic predecessor Gray Davis' ratings just before he was ousted from office. The poll shows that only 22 percent of voters approve of the governor's performanc ... More >>
A Los Angeles Times review of records found that California welfare recipients are able to withdraw cash using their welfare cards on gaming floors in more than half of the casinos in the state. The Times crosschecked ATM addresses on the Department of Social Services website with addresses ... More >>
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger got a do-over Tuesday morning when his ballot was rejected because he apparently voted for two U.S. Senate candidates instead of one (Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner?). The fail in Brentwood was caught on Fox 11 News live. The governor was apparently given two choices ... More >>
Happy Cinco de Mayo. From all of us, and from your sitting Governor, who just tweeted out this twitpic about an hour ago with the companion text of "Happy Cinco de Mayo!" (We are none of us that creative, either before or after whatever taxpayer-funded beverages you can make out on that table.) So g ... More >>
Dept. of Energy (via TPM)​For the last couple years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has lobbied to boost state revenues by allowing expanded drilling off Santa Barbara.The Tranquillon Ridge plan accounted for $100 million in the governor's proposed budget.Well, so much for that. In view of the vast an ... More >>
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday morning that the final amount of money has been raised to "Save The Peak" around the Hollywood sign, preserving a ridge line and preventing it from being developed. At a morning press conference the governor said the state of California has previou ... More >>
Nearly six in ten statewide voters believes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will leave the state in worse shape than when he first took office in 2003, according to the latest Field Poll. Given the Golden State's robust unemployment and intractable budget politics, the results aren't all that surp ... More >>
Police and city leaders expressed fear and loathing over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's two-year plan to release 21,000 prisoners, a move designed to relieve overcrowding at state lockups and provide some budget relief. (We got it wrong: We have been reporting that the release was a piece of ... More >>
The administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger lost its appeal (PDF) to have the U.S. Supreme Court to stop a federal order that would force California to release more than 40,000 prisoners to reduce overcrowding. The release, which we told you previously was planned for Jan. 25, must go ... More >>
Arnold.Facing a near $20 billion state deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding health-care and programs for needy children hostage in an effort to get the federal government to kick in nearly $7 billion. Of course, don't call it a bailout. Under Schwarzenegger's budget plan, which he ... More >>
Long before Arnold Schwarzenegger became the Governor of this sunny and now completely bankrupt state, he starred not only in such screen gems as Stay Hungry and the Terminator films, but in a catalog of Japanese food and beverage commercials. Maybe there's an answer to Sacramento's budget woes: se ... More >>
Abel MaldonadoGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday appointed state Sen. Abel Maldonado to the position of Lt. Governor, an office vacated by John Garamendi, who left the job to become a U.S. Congressman. Maldonado is a Republican from Santa Maria who was born to Mexican farm workers. He help ... More >>
Thats right folks. If the a state pay commission has its way the governor's salary and those of other state elected officials will get an 18 percent reduction starting next month, putting the pay for Los Angeles City councilmembers in a rarified air above that of the governor of 36 million pe ... More >>
A gubernatorial veto of a state bill that would have helped to fund projects along the San Francisco waterfront contained a not-so-hidden message of "f--- you," according to several reports.The printed version of the veto contained just that array of letters, spelling out the insult vertically along ... More >>
It seemed like only yesterday that community leaders were still debating about where a prospective new NFL stadium would go -- Carson, Exposition Park (at a refurbished Coliseum) or the San Gabriel Valley's far-out city of Industry. The governor just cast a big vote for the latter. Today he signed ... More >>
Late last night, a few hours after gays and lesbians from across the country marched in Washington D.C., California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law "Harvey Milk Day," Frontiers News Editor Karen Ocamb reports.Daniel NicolettaSan Francisco Supervisor and gay icon Harvey Milk (center)â ... More >>
In response to our post about Governor Schwarzenegger's breakfast Twitpic (fruit, oatmeal, smiley face), our favorite comment of the day, or the week really: Governor Schwarzenegger's Twitpic
The state legislature passed a bill that would open cell doors for 17,000 prisoners as a way to reduce California's budget by $300 million. The deal, part of a compromise that back-stepped away from a more-radical proposal to revamp sentencing and let even more prisoners finish their time outside co ... More >>
Among California's treasures to be targeted by budget cutters' machetes are its state parks. However, it looks as though most of the parks will remain open until at least the end of the year. At one point it was feared that many parks on a 220-site hit list, which included 13 L.A.-area parks, would ... More >>
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Before you turn in tonight, check out this video from the Courage Campaign portraying Governor Schwarzenegger as as a budget-slashing Scrooge. It's not a spot of mustard that provokes the midnight visits to Arnold's executive office -- just the politically soulless times in which we live ... More >>
But for some in Hollywood, the joke's on them
On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court refused to take Proposition 8 off the November ballot. The anti-gay marriage measure will now go to the voters...and gay rights activists will need the state's political stars to follow through on their promises. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is importan ... More >>
If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was hoping for a quick injection of gay dollars into California's ailing economy this summer, it may not happen. Opponents of same-sex marriage asked the state's Supreme Court on Thursday to delay its decision to allow queer weddings until after November 4, when an ... More >>
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