By Martha Salas After reading The Atlantic’s “America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy,” I couldn’t help thinking — some of us saw this coming years ago. We said that lowering standards was not compassion ...

By Starr Hall The holidays used to run on intuition. Store owners would stock up based on gut feeling, handwrite notes to loyal customers, and pray that the weather, the locals, and the tourists ...

Federal immigration raids at Glass House Farms’ cannabis facilities in Camarillo and Carpinteria on July 10 led to a temporary labor shortage. As a result, the Long Beach-based company’s third-quarter ...