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Back to homepageLiberal PPIC Puts Pro-Tax Spin On Poll
JAN. 27, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI ‘Hey, diddle diddle, The poll cat played the fiddle, The Gov jumped over the moon (beam), The little (CalWatch) dog laughed to see such sport, And the Gov dished out the budget with a
Read MoreCA Obamacare Lead Will Hurt
JAN. 27, 2011 By JOHN SEILER The U.S. House of Representatives, now controlled by Republicans, voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly called Obamacare. The U.S Senate, still controlled by Democrats, will not follow
Read MoreMayors Scoff At Redevelopment Cuts
JAN. 27, 2010 This story first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner. By KATY GRIMES Redevelopment is crucial to creating jobs in California to fight the plague of 12.5 percent unemployment, the mayors of the state’s nine largest cities insisted
Read MoreSacramento Passes Crash Tax
Katy Grimes: Defying its own push to increase the use of downtown restaurants, entertainment venues, as well as the K Street Mall and the nearly empty downtown shopping mall, the Sacramento City Council has just passed a new “crash tax.”
Read MoreGreen Tech Guru's Apostasy
JAN. 25, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A Green Tech Martin Luther may have emerged in California, but the state is unlikely to convert to his brand of economic religion. On Oct. 31, 1517, the Catholic monk Martin Luther posted his
Read MoreAgency Employee Shift Lacked Approval
JAN. 25, 2010 By KATY GRIMES At a hearing riddled with government-acronyms on Monday at the Capitol, one state agency sought permission for a move it had already made, in a hearing where the outcome seemed pre-determined. In order to
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Obama Must End TSA Molestations
John Seiler: There’s one thing I want to hear from President Obama tonight in his State of the Union Address: That he is ending the molestation of airline passengers by the perverts at the Transportation Security Administration. Under edicts imposed
Read MoreSteinberg no longer fights budget cuts
JAN. 24, 2011 By DAVE ROBERTS Just a few months ago Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg excoriated then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $1 billion budget cut for social services, calling it “misguided, cruel, unnecessary and preventable,” according to the Los Angeles
Read MoreSchwarzenegger Was The Acting Governor
JAN. 24. 2011 This article was first published in City Journal. By STEVEN GREENHUT As Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped down as governor of California, he could behold two dispiriting sights: a state struggling with structural budget deficits, just as it had
Read MoreState Officials Ignore Ed Alternatives
JAN. 24, 2011 The news is not good for college students in California, or at least that’s what lawmakers want everyone to believe. Earlier this week a legislative committee held a formal hearing at the Capitol to discuss the governor’s
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