The State of California has mandated that 33% of all electricity come from renewable sources by 2020. This highly ambitious plan, while laudable, creates multiple challenges for it to be implemented.

With the special election for California's 36th congressional district seat rapidly approaching on July 12th, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn is branding herself as one who has never held partisan office.

This weekend, Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone unveiled a plan for thirteen counties in Southern California, excluding Los Angeles and Ventura counties on the coast, to secede from the Golden State and form a 51st state. His announcement came on the same day that Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that will divert $14 million in revenue from Riverside County.

After the House of Representatives soundly defeated a resolution to authorize the war in Libya for the period of a year – a companion bill to the McCain/Kerry measure in the Senate – the body rejected another measure that was being pushed as an “antiwar alternative.”