Businesses Flee State In Droves

Steven Greenhut: Liberal groups such as the Public Policy Institute of California have, along with the state’s legislative Democrats, made a cottage industry denying reports that businesses are leaving California. They note, correctly, that relatively few companies pull up stakes

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Another Bee Front-Page Parks 'Editorial'

JAN. 27, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT The Sacramento Bee is nothing if not persistent in its push for higher taxes to pay for the state’s park system, as evidenced by its umpteen-part series last summer prior to the failed state

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Liberal 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

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Are Coastal Cops Coming Soon?

JAN. 27, 2010 It was most interesting to read that Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, is calling for regulatory reform. “I always think that good policy makes for good politics,” he says in the Jan. 21 Sacramento Bee.

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CA 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

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Mayors 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

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Brown Declines Press Club Invite

Katy Grimes: Gov. Jerry Brown has declined an invitation to speak to the Sacramento Press Club – and what a shame, as previous governors before him have graciously addressed the club. According to Press Club President Rich Ehisen, the club

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