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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is leaning toward spending billions of dollars to rebuild three aging gas-fired power plants, even as California aims to eliminate fossil fuels, a goal endorsed by Mayor Eric Garcetti. Consultants hired by the utility say the city should invest those ratepayer dollars in continuing to burn natural […]

Had she signed the contract, she would have been promising not to engage in any action “intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel, or with a person or entity doing business in Israel or in an Israel-controlled territory.” Lawmakers may have been trying to deter the state’s suppliers from […]

Given all that, his letter is tinged with sadness, a palpable grief for the old American moral and philosophical values, and for his inability, finally, to successfully defend them on his own, the last serious and decent public servant in the White House. It’s heartbreaking — but human — that there’s a note of real […]

On Balboa Island, the largest of six islands in the harbor, homes are valued significantly higher than in most of the rest of California. There are roughly 1,410 houses on the island, plus a few dozen businesses, with an average estimated market value of $2.8 million per house, which means conservatively that there’s north of […]

It’s perplexing that Musk does not suggest something closer to his own logic: self-driving vehicles that can enter a centrally controlled system that uses existing streets and freeways, allowing for maximum speed, safety and efficiency. At the rate Musk himself is perfecting the self-driving paradigm, such a system could be only a decade or two […]

Now, we have a bifurcated system pitting one against the other, with UTLA still pulling power plays that will likely end the way the 1989 strike did: with short-term salary wins for teachers, celebrated as a victory for the union, but later cutbacks to address the real funding deficits, and teachers and students caught in […]