Cal State illegally promotes Prop. 30 tax increase

Sept. 20, 2012 By Jennifer Kerns California State University backers of Proposition 30 are violating state law by sending out emails pushing the initiative on the Nov. 6 ballot. It would raise up to $8.5 billion a year, which supposedly would prevent

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Why low-wage jobs boom is good news for California

Sept. 4, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Is there anything for California to celebrate about the news that there has been a recent “explosion” of low wage jobs?  Not according to the union-backed National Employment Law Project’s new study, “Low Wage Recovery

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CalPERS reveals its true colors

Steven Greenhut: When the California Public Employees’ Retirement System — the nation’s largest retirement system, albeit one plagued by scandal — was pushing for massive retroactive pension increases for California government employees in 1999, the system released a report that,

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Tom Fuentes’ California Legacy Continues

May 28, 2012 By Brian Calle Saying goodbye to a friend is never easy. Last week was particularly difficult for many residents of Orange County and elsewhere who had known – or had their lives impacted by – Tom Fuentes.

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Gov. Jerry Brown Resigns

APRIL 1, 2012 By JOHN SEILER SACRAMENTO — Declaring California “ungovernable,” Gov Jerry Brown today resigned from office. “My father built the California water system, the university system and the schools system, and I can’t even get a measly tax

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Gleickgate Pollutes Enviro Movement

FEB. 24, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The environmental movement is suffering from a cluster of scandals. First there was Climategate. Then there was Climategate 2.0. Now, there’s Climategate 3.0 — also called “Gleickgate.” Climate activist Dr. Peter Gleick of the

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Deputies Union Poisons Shooting Review

Commentary FEB. 17, 2012 By STEVEN GREENHUT Whenever I write about police shootings, police and union officials always mouth the same line: You, in the public and the media, have no right to jump to conclusions about the split-second decisions

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Union Ally Denies Pension Crisis!

Steven Greenhut: Here’s the dog-bites-man story of the day: Steve Maviglio claims that the pension crisis isn’t real, apparently something manufactured by greedy private-sector workers who don’t understand why they need to work until they are 90 to pay for

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AB 32 Feeds CA Aristocratic Socialists

FEB. 9, 2012 By CHRISS STREET This year marks the 25th anniversary of the United Nations’ Brundtland Report. It defined Sustainable Development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their

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