– Photo: San Diego Superior Court Judge Gary Kreep, shown in this file photo from April 2012, is facing a disciplinary hearing from the state Commission on Judicial Performance. (Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune) Did you know that in many states there are judicial elections? And that those judicial elections are a pathway for…
Californians are living through the most severe three-year drought in the last 1,200 years, according to a new study published this week in an American Geophysical Union journal. Although other three-year periods have been drier, 2012-14 stands as perhaps the worst drought in a millennium due in part to “anomalously low” precipitation and “record-high” temperatures,…
Californians agree their state’s drought is a big problem, but they’re not enthused about spending money to alleviate it. That’s one of the takeaways from a just-released University of Southern California/Los Angeles Times poll. Some other findings: Big problem, getting bigger Just prior to California’s last gubernatorial election in November 2010, 46 percent of voters…
Southern California’s fire ecology is unlike that of anywhere else in the United States. Fire control strategies developed for mountain forests don’t have the same results here. So can science help uncover new answers to help Southern California communities manage and live with wildfires? The fires in Southern California are genuinely different than in the…
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