Dianne Feinstein

Helicopter Noise Law Would Protect Westsiders From Noise Endured By The Rest Of L.A.

Sick and tired of helicopters flying low over your neighborhood? California-based federal legislators, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, today introduced the "Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act" to restrict flight paths and limit how low choppers can fly. ... More >>

Tim Donnelly For Governor! Tea Party Assemblyman Launches Exploratory Committee

Tim Donnelly, the Tea Party Assemblyman from Twin Peaks, has launched an exploratory effort to run for governor in 2014, the Ventura County Star reports."There's nobody out there fighting for us," Donnelly told the Patriot Update website, shortly after he was re-elected earlier this month. "Cal ... More >>

Earthquake Warning System Is Running in Los Angeles, But Only A Few Are Hooked Up

What if we were to tell you that L.A. has an earthquake warning system that pretty much works, but that only a few folks will get the precious alerts? It's true. The U.S. Geological Survey's prototype "Shake Alert" system has been running since January. It can theoretically warn you as much as 90 ... More >>

Occupy-Affiliated Group ReFund California Threatens Lawsuit if UC Regents Meet Behind Closed Doors

ReFund California​Protesters concerned that University of California Regents will meet behind closed doors as Cal State University trustees are accused of having done this week amid loud demonstrations are threatening legal action. ReFund California, which staged a raucous protest outside the ... More >>

Eric Garcetti Makes It Official: He's Running For Mayor

Eric Garcetti​Update 3:14 p.m.: Zev Yaroslavsky will jump in "sooner rather than later."Councilman Eric Garcetti announced this morning that he's running for mayor.Garcetti's entry into the race has been expected for months, and the chatter had been picking up lately that he would announce soon af ... More >>

Amelia Wang Apparently the Only L.A. Hottie Working on Capitol Hill

thehill.comAmelia Wang​She's 32, single, and one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" working on DC's Capitol Hill. She can also probably kick your ass. She is LA native Amelia Wang, chief of staff for Rep. Judy Chu, and described by The Hill newspaper in their annual list as "cheerful, gracious, ... More >>

Political Action Group MoveOn Holds 'Rally to Defend American Dream:' Urging Senators to Ease Proposed $100 Billion Budget Cuts

Adrienne Hatrick, retired city employee, believes in 'the people that brought you the weekend.' ​Yesterday evening MoveOn, a political action group, hosted a "Rally to Defend the American Dream" outside of the west side's Palms Ranch Library. The message? It was for Senators Barbara Boxer an ... More >>

Debra Bowen Will Run For Congress

Debra Bowen​Updated at 3 p.m. with interview of Bowen.Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced today that she is running for Congress to fill the seat held by retiring Rep. Jane Harman.Bowen will face off against L.A. Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who launched her campaign last week. In an interview t ... More >>

Marijuana Soda Introduced by California Entrepreneur Clay Butler: Look for Refreshing Canna Cola in California This Spring

Canna ColaDon't spark it, sip it.​Marijuana is a little like sex. Its fans can't get enough of it -- any which way. There are pipes, bongs, joints, pills, vaporizers, candy, brownies and now ... Canna Cola. That's right. It was only a matter of time before a Californian said it's time to have ... More >>

LA County Sheriffs Warn Narco Candy as Next Big Threat to LA Children's Health

Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentIt doesn't look anything like the real thing​ Just when you thought Halloween was safe for children again, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department issued a new health warning: your kids could be ingesting (gulp!) marijuana-laced goodies! This morning ... More >>

Proposition 19 Dreams of Legal Weed

Bruce Margolin has defended 25,000 pot cases and Timothy Leary. Now he's primed for ganja tourists and sensimilla spas

POM Juice Claims Sexual Benefit In New Ads: L.A. Billionaire And POM Co-Owner Lynda Resnick Backs The Claim

​You have to admire the owners of POM Wonderful, the pomegranate juice maker that claims its product can prevent or treat heart disease, prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction: A week after being slapped with a federal complaint alleging its claims are as lame as your penis will still be a ... More >>

Prop 19 Pot Legalization: The Money Chase

​The Times has a handy database for tracking money going to the forces of "yes" and "no" on Proposition 19, the voter initiative that would make it legal to possess, share or transport less than one ounce of marijuana if you're 21 or older, while also allowing limited cultivation. Local govern ... More >>

Prop. 8 Ruling: Thousands Rally In West Hollywood, Long Beach

Steve La​ Hours after a federal judge struck down the Prop. 8 ban on gay marriage, using strong language to affirm the civil rights of gays and lesbians, demonstrators began celebrating Wednesday evening. The joy and satisfaction were tempered with the knowledge, however, that an appeal is com ... More >>

Bold Prediction: Mickey Kaus Will Poll in the High Single Digits

Mickey Kaus sets expectations low​The polls are open as of 7 a.m. Sometime before they close, at 8 p.m., lay down a bet on how Venice-based blogger Mickey Kaus will fare in his anti-campaign for U.S. Senate. Kaus told Calbuzz that if he gets 3% of the vote, it will be a historic repudiation of Ba ... More >>

Group Alleges L.A. County Supervisors Met In Secret In D.C.

The supes.​A group called the Full Disclosure Network alleged over the weekend that recent Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meetings announced as public forums were closed to outsiders in violation of state open-meeting rules. The meetings took place in Washington, D.C. May 5 and 6 as ... More >>

Valentine's Day with Pacquiao: PacMan Meets Fans, Receives Commendation from Senator Feinstein

​I know this is last minute, but if you and your Valentine are fans of champion boxer Manny Pacquiao, he will be meeting fans and receiving a commendation from Senator Dianne Feinstein today in Glendale at the Embassy Suites Hotel at 1 p.m. Click here for more info. Tickets are $20 at the door ... More >>

Schwarzenegger's Budget Is A Cry For Federal Help

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 >>

Senator V? One Pundit Thinks Villaraigosa Is Going Senatorial In 2012

​He's an utterly ambitious career politician with the $2,000 suits, million-dollar smile and billionaire friends, but you all know him simply as Mayor V. Observers have wondered what Antonio Villaraigosa was going to do next after letting the gubernatorial race pass him by. One pundit thinks ... More >>

Newsom Hands Democrats' Gubernatorial Nod To Brown

What promised to be a race filled with Democratic powerhouses has been handed to just one man who hasn't even announced he's running. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced he's dropping out of the race to become the Democratic nominee for governor next year.Newsom​The announcement was a ... More >>

Gavin Newsom: Governor Whether We Like It or Not?

It's become a selling point of some restaurants and cocktail lounges to announce that they are not staffed with actors-in-waiting -- their waitresses are committed to being waitresses and their bartenders have no higher ambitions than to pour you the best drink. It's a candor that's eluded some of t ... More >>

Feinstein would clean Newsom's, Villaraigosa's clocks! Gawker squawks!

A hot new Field Poll shows Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are unpopular statewide, and lag so far behind U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein that Di-Fi would sail into the California governor's post if she ran today. This news after Gawker, based in Manhattan ... More >>

Dorothy Green's Final Fight: Before She Died, Heal the Bay Founder Said California's Drought Is a Fake

"If we managed water differently — better — there would be plenty of water for the state of California."

Judge Kozinski Gets Judged

He lawyers up, while the panel investigating the porn dustup has yet to begin

What Would Jerry and Rocky Do?

Brawling Democrats

The fight begins to knock out Arnold

Gays on the Ropes

Democrats in denial blame gays for Bush’s victory

What’s Killing Joshua Tree National Park?

Fire, smog, golf courses . . . and maybe even coffee-loving, rock-climbing hipsters like you

Letters

Totaled Recall

Rise of the political machinations

Bush Moves California Cash to Texas

It was a trick he learned from his creator — Enron’s Ken Lay

The Unhappy Warrior

Gray Davis: The rise of America’s most calculating politician

Peaceful Warmongers

Patriotic Gore

The former veep breaks loose, and Democrats (some of ’em) act like (gasp!) an opposition party

Enron’s Revenge

Fallen energy giant may be out to tarnish other big firms in the great rip-off of California

Letters

One-Trick Party

In war and peace, Republicans replenish the rich

An Appealing Shade of Green

Denise Munro Robb for City Council

Hackers Unite

Geeks rally for jailed Russian programmer. But it’s hard to explain why it really does matter.

Light Troubles

Ins and outs of Gray Davis’ plan to help his pals at SCE

Getting to 50-plus-1

Hahn and Villaraigosa look to their right

Charting Their Own Course

Even the best charter schools are no panacea for what ails L.A. Unified

Flying Right

Airport workers get their jobs back

Aborted Takeoff

Hopes for union grounded at LAX

Right and White

Why last week’s electorate does not portend the future of California politics

It’s Chinatown, Jake

The behind-closed-doors transformation of the downtown rail yards

Shots in the Dark

Filmmakers, educators, politicians stand up to campus violence

Meltdown Money

The GOP's Latino Problem

State Republicans talk the talk, can't walk

The Revolt of the Elites

The media and the moralists go gunning for Bill