President Obama will reveal his major jobs initiative during a televised speech on Thursday, September 8. And Angelenos are ready. Good Jobs LA - a grassroots organization with the mission to reclaim the American Dream - has rallied unemployed workers and residents from struggling local communities to gather at 200 Obama Jobs Speech Watch Parties. more ›

On this, our Independence Day, Bill Pullman unites the country against aliens and stealers of Lucky Charms. Both versions of this inspirational video lunch will feed your pride in America. more ›

Attorney General Jerry Brown has announced he will conduct a "broad investigation" following the revelation that CSU Stanislaus students discovered discarded documents in a campus dumpster that included part of former GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin's contract for an upcoming speaking engagement. more ›

At 8 a.m., LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines is scheduled to give his State of the District speech, outlining four strategies, including a funding model that gives money to schools based on each student's needs, according to the LA Times. more ›

Lame duck Governor Schwarzenegger today will give his last State of the State speech and it won't be sexy. Faced with a $20.7 billion deficit and 12.3% unemployment, he will hopefully lay out plans that will truly put California back on the right track. Here's out the San Francisco Chronicle recaps the past 12 months: "The state issued IOUs to vendors and taxpayers; halted construction of thousands of projects for months..." more ›

There's been a national controversy bubbling around President Obama's planned speech to school-age students tomorrow, and specifically the initial course materials provided to accompany the talk, which features the country's leader talking about the importance of education and staying in school. Today the White House released the speech so that everyone can preview its content. more ›

Before an African American man clad in Klu Klux Klan apparel was to speak to the Los Angeles City Council, members walked out of the room, effectively canceling the meeting because a lack of quorum, the legal limit of members needed for a meeting to take place. more ›

Here's the full transcript as prepared for delivery of President Barack Obama's inaugural address: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. more ›

In honor of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, unprecedented numbers of Americans served their communities today in beautiful ways. And President-Elect Obama’s Renew America Together service forged new means of connecting Americans (and Los Angelenos) with local volunteering opportunities. more ›

This morning's annual State of the State address by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was not traditional, as he said in his opening statement. He focused in on the 42 billion dollar deficit that he called "a rock upon our chest." more ›

The stage is set for Barack Obama to accept the Democratic Party nomination for president | Photo by Rocky Mountain News via flickr. more ›

In case you’re not up-to-date on all the burial happenings going on nowadays, the ever so hated N-word was put to rest in Detroit, MI., taking on similarities to the organization’s mock burial of the Jim Crow laws in Detroit in 1944. The NAACP held a mock funeral for the word to symbolically call an end to oppressing terminology that has flooded the American society. The funeral comes in retaliation to the degrading images of... more ›

USC Free Culture is hosting a panel discussion this evening on reinvigorating Los Angeles' open space. What we can do with artistic expression, do-it-yourself technology and the public domain to preserve and enhance LA's 500 square miles of diverse culture before our greatest spaces are swallowed up by thinly veiled corporate interests? What type of “knowledge ecology” is possible in a city devoted to fame, celebrity and image? USC's Taper Hall, Rm 301 3501... more ›