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Back to homepageWastrel Cities Prove Brown's Plan Is Right
JAN. 21, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT California cities like to depict themselves as the victims of a bad economy and a profligate state government intent on taking away “their” tax dollars and diverting it to the bureaucracies in Sacramento. But
Read MoreOn-Line Retailers Are Tax Targets
JAN. 21, 2011 By KATY GRIMES In a move designed to be a revenue booster for California, an online sales tax bill has been revived again. But many small online affiliate business owners are saying that if the bill is passed
Read MoreA Redevelopment Hush
Katy Grimes: There’s mostly silence coming from Republican legislators on Gov. Brown’s budget plan proposal for for eliminating redevelopment agencies. The plan would take $1.7 billion dollars from city redevelopment agencies, and redirect the money to school districts, counties and
Read MoreSFSU Whitewashes History
JAN. 20, 2011 By STAN BRIN My alma mater, San Francisco State University, celebrates Nov. 6, 1967 as the birth of a movement to create the first department and college of Ethnic Studies. I remember Nov. 6, 1967 very differently,
Read MoreBuy On Rumor, Sell On News
Wayne Lusvardi: In California, polls show that new Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to extend $5.9 billion in “temporary” income, sales, vehicular license fees, and tobacco taxes instead of letting them expire has an unlikely chance of passage in June 2011. The
Read MoreState Ed Officials Fear Looming Ed Cuts
JAN. 20, 2011 By KATY GRIMES During Tuesday’s hearing to discuss education cuts in the light of tough budget times, Assembly members failed to analyze the cost of compensation and benefits of teachers and administrators in California’s higher education system,
Read MoreWhy California's Party Ran Out of Tea
JAN. 19, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI How could California voters elect Democrats to every executive office and every incumbent state andcCongressional legislative seat in a clean sweep in November 2010 when nearly all the states in Middle America turned to
Read MoreMinimum Wage Hike Would Hurt Poor
JAN. 18, 2011 By JOHN BRINKMAN One of the first labor proposals (AB10) to be considered under Gov. Jerry Brown’s new administration, introduced by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, to increase the minimum wage, must be fought tooth and nail by
Read MoreBusiness Meets The Legislature
JAN. 17, 2011 By KATY GRIMES The era of big-government Republican legislators appears to be changing. In the November election, California voters elected several political novices to represent them at the state Capitol, and it appears that this happened for
Read MoreSounds Like California
John Seiler: Wikileaks’ recent release of a cable from the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia supposedly led to the downfall of that country’s government. The cable actually looks like it could have been written about the government of another state enjoying
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