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Back to homepageCar Owners Unable To Re-Register Cars
MAY 9, 2011 By KATY GRIMES California residents planning automobile road trips this summer beware. The Department of Motor Vehicles is not allowing July auto registrations to be paid. The DMV has been ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown to refuse
Read MoreCalifornia on the Peso Standard?
MAY 9, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Californians keep looking for ways to boost our economy, which also would bring in more revenue to the state government. The Legislature still is struggling with a budget deficit of about $15 billion, after
Read MoreCTA Activists At Capitol This Week
Katy Grimes: In preparation for the governor’s May budget revise this week, California teacher-activists will be descending on the Capitol all week, attempting to lather up California’s state house, rivaling the Wisconsin protests. The weeklong protest is designed to put
Read MoreTaxes Up – No Need for Increases
John Seiler: A month ago, I was the first to point out that ongoing tax cuts in California were producing a better economy — which included increases in tax receipts. I wrote: Another factor is marginal tax rates. At some
Read MoreCEOs Rank CA Worst State for Business
MAY 5, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Once again, California garners the booby prize for business climate: For the seventh year in a row, CEOs rate Texas as the #1 state in which to do business and California as the worst. North Carolina maintained its #2 rank,
Read MoreCA Bond Payments Crowd Other Spending
MAY 5, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A recent Internet headline read: “California bond sold for 9 percent – NOT a Typo!” The inference was that this could be the harbinger of much prophesized skyrocketing bond interest rates and municipal bond
Read MoreLAO Says Zero Out AB 32 Funding
MAY 4, 2011 California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 is in every sense of the word a landmark piece of legislation. Known by its legislative moniker AB 32, the law is, by far, the most sweeping and hard-hitting experiment
Read MoreSenate Passes Corrections Contracts
Katy Grimes: Described as “Short Time Gain – Long Time Pain” by Republican Sen. Bob Dutton, the six union deals between the Governor and correctional officers failed to garner the necessary Senate votes for ratification today in the Senate –
Read MoreThe Economist Mag Assaults Prop. 13
MAY 2, 2011 By K. Lloyd Billingsley The surfer, posed by what appears to be the Pacific Ocean, wears star-spangled trunks and his surfboard bears a peace sign, a highway placard bearing the number 13 and a banner reading “Direct
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CA Dems Hold Looters' Convention
MAY 2, 2011 By JOHN SEILER H.L. Mencken called elections “advanced auctions of stolen goods.” That certainly was true of last November’s election, in which Gov. Jerry Brown and other Democrats auctioned off California taxpayers’ money to the public-employee unions.
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