Gene Maddaus

California is suffering through the worst drought in 1200 years. So what are we doing about it? In L.A., Mayor Eric Garcetti has called for a voluntary cutback of 20 percent. Sounds reasonable, except that history shows voluntary restrictions don't do much. Actually, according to data compiled by Dr. Caroline......

L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer announced this morning that he is cracking down on on Nestdrop, the "Uber for weed" app that delivers medical marijuana to your door. At a press conference this morning, Feuer said the app violates Measure D, the city's medical marijuana initiative, which limits delivery of......

Tech startups are constantly in search of new industries to disrupt. Taxis? Check. Music? Check. Laundry? Check. Well, cross another one off the list. Today, Honk is unveiling its new service, which it describes as "Uber for roadside assistance." Next time you have a flat tire or a dead battery,......

Getty House, the mayoral residence, uses 2,100 gallons of water every day — more than five times as much as the average L.A. home, according to figures released by the L.A. Department of Water and Power. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who moved into the mansion late last year, has called on......

It's been a rough night for Democrats, and here in L.A., there's one more disappointment for national Democratic activists. Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student who rose to fame when Rush Limbaugh called her a slut, is losing her bid for California state senate. Ben Allen, a Democrat who serves......

It's hard to imagine that anyone in California had a worse election night than the folks at Consumer Watchdog. The non-profit advocacy group lost not one but two ballot propositions — seeing both Proposition 45 and 46 go down to defeat by wide margins. Proposition 45 would have given the......

Consumer Watchdog, the non-profit group behind Proposition 45, is firing back at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi over her opposition to the measure. The proposition would give the state's insurance commissioner the power to reject excessive rate hikes for health insurance. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial......

Blue Shield of California, one of the state's four major health insurers, has a sales office on the 20th floor of the Pacific Corporate Towers in El Segundo. Had the employees peered down to the plaza on a recent Tuesday morning, they would have seen a small cluster of picketers......

Ben Allen and Sandra Fluke running a hotly contested campaign for the 26th state Senate district, which covers much of West L.A., Santa Monica, and the South Bay. But so far, both of their campaigns have been outspent by one man: Bill Bloomfield. Bloomfield, a retired businessman, has spent nearly......