Antelope Valley Times | October 27, 2015 -  PALMDALE – The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a contract worth up to $60 billion Tuesday to build the nation’s next-generation stealth bomber — a project that is expected to be a major boon to the local aerospace sector with much ... Read More

Daily Journal | October 7, 2015 -  California Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, held a support gathering Tuesday at Humboldt County Superior Court in Eureka to urge California Gov. Jerry Brown to sign the Medical Marijuana Safety and Regulation Act, with Sunday’s deadline looming. Joining Wood were Assembly members Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, and ... Read More

HometownStation.com | September 9, 2015 -  Assembly Bill 353, authored by Assemblyman Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, amends the Fish and Game Code to allow the implementation and maintenance of Los Angeles County’s Bouquet Canyon Habitat Restoration Project, according to the news release. “The county has worked closely with permitting agencies to develop a ... Read More

June 25, 2015 | Antelope Valley Times SACRAMENTO- Assemblyman Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) has named Dennis Anderson as the 2015 Veteran of the Year for the 36th Assembly District. Anderson served in the U.S. Army from 1972 to 1975 as an airborne infantryman, and was deployed to the East German Border. Following the ... Read More

June 17, 2015 | PressTelegram.com SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The announcement of a California budget deal has not stopped pleas for the state to spend more on social services, as advocates for people with disabilities came to the state Capitol Wednesday, angry after additional funding for services was left out of ... Read More

June 4, 2015 | CBS Sacramento SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California took the first step Thursday to regulate its nearly 20-year-old medical marijuana industry, one that lawmakers said currently resembles something out of the “wild, wild West.” AB266 merges what were two competing bills and attempts to set up state regulations that ... Read More

May 30, 2015 | CBSNews State assembly has passed a bill making "lane splitting" legal. That's when a motorcycle rider drives between other vehicles on congested streets and freeways. Ben Tracy brings us up to speed. View Original Publication

May 26, 2015 | SacBee.com It could get more expensive to file a ballot initiative in California. Legislation hiking the filing fee from $200 to $8,000 passed the Assembly on a 46-24 vote Tuesday. In the background lurked a near-universally condemned proposed ballot initiative that seeks to authorize executing homosexuals. While the ... Read More

May 12, 2015 | Yahoo News LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge decided not to send a serial rapist back to a psychiatric hospital, outraging the California community where he has lived since his release last year and where some fear he will attack again. Santa Clara County Judge Richard Loftus ruled ... Read More