Toxic Ash Poses Risk During Calif. Wildfire Cleanup

(CNN) – Homes leveled, cars reduced to their frames. Entire neighborhoods in California gone. Families left with nothing. “All your life savings and work for all the years is gone,” Penny Wright told CNN. “We lived here 10 years. I never thought that Santa Rosa would have a fire like this and we would lose…MORE

Spacey Comes Out, Apologizes after accusation surfaces

[van id=”entertainment/2017/10/30/kevin-spacey-sexual-harassment-allegation-apology.cnn”] (CNN) – Actor Anthony Rapp has accused Kevin Spacey of making a sexual advance at him when Rapp was 14, Buzzfeed reported Sunday. In an interview with Buzzfeed, Rapp said Spacey picked him up, put him on his bed and “was trying to get with me sexually.” Spacey was 26 at the time.…MORE

Female Lawmakers Want Assemblyman Devon Mathis Investigated

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The top members of the California Legislature’s Women’s Caucus say legislative leaders have failed to enforce the body’s zero-tolerance policies for sexual harassment. Their statement was issued Friday after Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra apologized for harassing a woman in 2009, when both were legislative aides. The Los Angeles-area Democrat is the first…MORE

California Billionaire Behind Impeach Campaign Is “Totally Unhinged”

FRESNO (KMJ) — A bid to impeach President Donald Trump, funded by California billionaire Tom Steyer, has received a response from the Commander in Chief himself. “[He has been] fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning,” writes President Trump on Twitter. “Never wins elections.” Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who…MORE

Stockton Tests “Universal Basic Income”

Free cash for everyone? Stockton, Calif.’s mayor plans to see if it works NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – As a kid growing up in Stockton, California, a little extra money would’ve meant the world to Michael Tubbs’ family. Tubbs’ mother worked long hours as a cashier at a Discovery Zone and still had to borrow from…MORE

Conaway Supports House Guestworker Bill

  House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway offered his approval to a bill that would bring reforms to agriculture labor. Earlier this week, the House Judiciary Committee approves the Ag Act, which supporters say would replace the flawed H-2A guestworker program. Conaway says the bill would help provide farmers with access to a legal, steady…MORE