California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced yesterday a 10-state settlement with Countrywide which will provide $8.68 billion of home loan and foreclosure relief nationally. California will get $3.5 billion of it. (AP Photo/Jakub Mosur) HotPads compiled a list of the top ten congressional districts with the highest foreclosure rates in the country showing that seven of those districts are in California with five of those in Southern California. While District 18 represented by Dennis......

Taken at Sequoia National Park, which has parts included in the bill | Photo by Allie_Caulfield via Flickr A federal bill seeking to protect hundreds of thousands acres of California wildland will possibly be voted on in a House of Representatives committee tomorrow. The Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands will hear about the Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel Wild Heritage Act, which will protect 800,000 acres of California land, including......

Taken at Sequoia National Park, which has parts included in the bill | Photo by Allie_Caulfield via Flickr There are two identical bills floating around the U.S Senate and House this month that would protect federally owned land from any development, vehicles, permanent structures, mining or basically anything else that would alter the environment. The land would go under The Wilderness Act, signed into law by President Johnson and says defines land as "an......