The California Wildfires Have Already Claimed 31 Lives and Displaced 150,000 People
Mason Trinca for The Washington Post via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Camp Fire in northern California has become the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history, incinerating the town of Paradise, and displacing more…
Republicans Tighten Their Grip on Farm Country
Supporters celebrate as they await the victory speech of Mike Braun, who defeated a Democratic incumbent in a race to represent Indiana in the US Senate, Nov. 6, 2018. Darron Cummings/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Tuesday’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump and his Republican Party largely tightened…
The Rent’s Too Damn High Everywhere. Can This California Ballot Measure Do Something About It?
Southern California mobilizers supporting Bakersfield renters ride on the Yes on 10 bus. Silvia Flores/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In California, where residents have been wrestling with one of the worst housing crises in the country, a ballot measure to repeal the state’s limits on rent…
Here’s Why You Should Keep an Eye on the Effort to Repeal California’s Gas Tax
But nationally, the group reported in October, with about half the roads in as poor a condition as California’s, the average motorist is losing $599 annually—a total of $130 billion nationally—as a result of driving on bad roads. That’s $244 less than the average Californian is paying. So, even if California is only able to…
He Was the “Hot Guy Running for Congress.” Now, Ammar Campa-Najjar is a Contender.
John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune/ZUMA (2) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In any other election year, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a young Palestinian Mexican American running to unseat a five-term Republican congressman in one of California’s most fiercely red districts, wouldn’t stand a chance. But these are strange times in the 50th…
The Republican Effort to Repeal California’s Gas Tax May Be Running on Fumes
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When a PAC supporting Mimi Walters, the Republican incumbent running to keep her seat in California’s 25th district, released an ad in August claiming that her opponent, Democrat Katie Porter, “refuses to oppose Sacramento’s gas tax hike,” the move was in line with a bigger party strategy. To…