Amazon.com has filed paperwork to put a referendum on the ballot in California. It would be about overturning a recent law requiring Californians…

Today, rare political and economic truths have been spoken. California, as you may have heard, is having some budget problems. Really big budget…

Illinois state legislators raised the state income tax from 3 percent to 5 percent, a 66 percent hike. In plain terms, if you owed the Illinois…

The U.S. Labor Department's jobs report threw us for a loop today. The nation's unemployment rate fell from 9.8 to 9.4 percent today — the lowest…

This final note today, a story to warm the heart. Forty-five years ago, Dennis Ferguson was living in Southern California, working for the Douglass…

Conor Friedersdorf points to the weather for the dicey financial situation the state of California is in, on Esquire's politics blog….

Easy Answer: Yes….

Easy Answer: California is #1, with 580 farmers markets. To find a market near you, check out the USDA's farmers market database here….

Easy Answer: California says no….

California and Greece may both be associated with overwhelming debts, but California's debts are outperforming Greece's bonds, according to a…