In a surprise move, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) resigned from the House earlier this week to become president and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. This leaves the heavily Democratic, mostly beach city communities of the 36th District wide open for election, which will probably be in June.
In a speech on Tuesday night at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, immigration hawk Joe Arpaio of Arizona said that California's lax immigration policies are to blame for the state's lingering high concentration of illegal immigrants.
This year we are witnessing the dawn of the Obama-era USDA, one where biotech interests seemingly trump the rule of law. Several genetically engineered crops are being rammed through the regulatory approval process without serious scientific scrutiny or public input in 2011.
According to new statistics from the state Department of Agriculture, the California cheese industry is growing. In 2010, the state produced 2.2 billion pounds of cheese, a 7 percent increase from '09. This ends two years of declines. Mozzarella cheese made up nearly 60 percent of overall output, followed by cheddar and Monterey varieties.
