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How Dems Won A Hollow Victory

NOV. 17, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The Democratic dominance at the voting booth on Nov. 2 in California is being called a “wipeout” of Republicans. But what happened in California on election night might be called a reverse Pyrrhic victory

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What Will Happen To Bacteria Bear?

Anthony Pignataro: So I was prowling the hallowed state capitol halls yesterday and stumbled on what might just be the greatest story in the state. All the legislative staffers are talking about it, and yet no one knows how it’s

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Are Split Rolls Coming Soon?

NOV. 16, 2010 By KATY GRIMES The recent passage of Proposition 25, which allows legislators to pass a budget with only a simple majority vote, could have an impact on the future of property tax increases, according to Jon Coupal,

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Rail Firms Lack Accountability

NOV. 15, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO The California High-Speed Rail Authority really loves its contractors. It easily employs more than a hundred of them, though the rail authority doesn’t seem to know that. In fact, the authority literally has no

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Locals Excluded From Klamath Dam Plan

NOV. 15, 2010 Will Siskiyou Residents Lose Property Rights To Environmental Interests? By WAYNE LUSVARDI The last eruption of Mount Mazama in the Klamath Basin in southern Oregon occurred over 7,700 years ago and scattered mineral ash as far as

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Bigger Not Better With Government

NOV. 15, 2010 As government costs soar, and revenue remains low because of the poor economy, some politicians and academics are trotting out an old idea that promises to increase efficiency and save money. It’s called municipal consolidation. In their

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Facebook Expanding – Elsewhere

Katy Grimes: The wildly popular social networking website Facebook is expanding, but not in California. With more than 500 million members, Facebook is adding a second data center, costing $450 million, but this time it is in North Carolina. The

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Business Property Not Under-taxed

NOV. 12, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A rebuttal is required to Lenny Goldberg of the California Tax Reform Association who contends that small business properties are overtaxed and large corporate and franchise business properties are under taxed by Prop. 13

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Brown's Job Got Twice as Hard

NOV. 12, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Less than a month ago, on Oct. 18, Moody’s Investor Service issued a report calculating California’s situation as “at least $12 billion in future budget gaps.” Now, the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office released a

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State Property Sale Costs Millions

Katy Grimes: Last February I wrote about some highly questionable property sales the state was planning on. In “State selling properties to raise cash,” I wrote “This deal started last year when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger directed the Department of General Services

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