Over the weekend, 47 years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr. shook the conceptions of race in the United States at the Lincoln Memorial, Latino immigration activists boarded buses from California to Arizona in an attempt to mobilize the Latino vote against the Republican Party.
It's a bad year to be a Democrat.
University of California Berkeley researchers have linked pesticide exposure in pregnant mothers to attention deficit disorders in their children.
The California State Assembly postponed a final vote Friday, on the approved Senate version of AB 1844, a bill that would create mandatory life sentences for violent sex crimes against children, stricter parole guidelines for sex offenders, and lifelong tracking of certain kinds of sex offenders.
As the U.S. ponders what ultimate course of action to take on immigration policy, perhaps it can take a lesson from its neighbors across the pond who have grappled with imposing an immigration cap next year.
It’s been a rough year for California. Between a massive budgetary shortfall, student protests at the university level and a continued exodus of business from the state, things haven’t been quite as rosy as they should have.
