Redevelopment Agencies Facing Default

JAN. 23, 2012 By CHRISS STREET Public officials are scrambling to deal with the California Supreme Court’s decision in California Redevelopment Agency vs. Matosantos. It upheld the elimination of the RDAs last year by Gov. Jerry Brown and the California

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DA Slams Spitzer’s ‘Misuse’ Of Title

Steven Greenhut: The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has sent former Assemblyman Todd Spitzer a scathing letter demanding that he correct a press release he sent out claiming to be assistant district attorney. Spitzer is running for Orange County supervisor.

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Bureaucracy Could Jack Up Water Rates

JAN. 23, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Are babies being damaged by too much perchlorate in the water? Should the amount be reduced by a mouthful of a bureaucracy, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, part of the California Environmental Protection

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Big Savings With Part-Time Leg.

Katy Grimes: Limiting the Legislature to only 95 days each year and $18,000 per year salaries would save the state tens of millions of dollars per year, according to a new report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office. Currently the

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TSA Goons Assault Sen. Rand Paul

John Seiler: The centralized tyranny in the United States has gone too far. It now is assaulting Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. After the TSA’s microwave “scanners” broke down, Paul was ordered — like a concentration camp inmate — to undergo

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Denying CA’s Plight Won’t Ease It

Jan. 23, 2012 Years ago, after starting to report and editorialize on news events in an old factory city in Ohio, I was quickly dubbed a “negative” for pointing out the disastrous government spending, housing and tax policies embraced by

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