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California pension Death Star approaching

Jan. 18, 2013 By Chriss Street When Moody’s Investors Services issued a “Request for Comment” last July about their plan to begin recalculating the effect of massive state and local unfunded pension liabilities on credit quality, I warned that this

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Growth controls, not Prop. 13, produced state deficits

Jan. 7, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi It is not Proposition 13 or greedy bankers, but the many layers of growth control laws that are the main instigator of the prolongation of California’s economic recession since 2007.  And with the recession

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Higher down payments could be compromise Prop. 13 reform

Jan. 2, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Could simply requiring higher down payments on home loans be a compromise reform of Proposition 13? The Democratic Party supermajority in the state legislature is presently pushing for reforms of Proposition 13, the 1978 initiative

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Reality could stifle Prop. 13 reform attempts

Dec. 18, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi and Charles B. Warren California legislators from San Francisco are “eager to reform Proposition 13 tax policies.”  But public perception is far apart from reality when it comes to the proposed reforming of Prop.

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George Skelton: 34% is a ‘small minority’

Dec. 13, 2012 By Chris Reed The persistence with which George Skelton writes silly, slanted stuff is hard to exaggerate. He only occasionally tells his L.A. Times readers that unions run Sacramento. He is a constant advocate of the Sacramento

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Willie Brown wants to gut Prop. 13

Dec. 10, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Willie Brown just reminded us why in 1990 voters passed term limits largely to move him out of his seat as California Assembly-Speaker-for-Life. Brown wrote that Prop. 13 should be reformed by “cleverly” by making “a

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Prop. 13 ‘split roll’ looms: Karma for Chamber of Commerce?

Nov. 7, 2012 By Chris Reed For years, the California Chamber of Commerce has had a squishy aversion to confrontation and a comfort level with Sacramento’s machine politicians that should inflame any small-government conservative. What has this toadying and willingness

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Supermajority can’t legislate away reality

Nov. 15, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Since the election, several acquaintances of mine have gone out of their way to taunt me about the emergence of the Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature. I have listened respectfully but sadly.  Achieving

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Prop. 30: California deserves better

Commentary Nov. 5, 2012 By Bey-Ling Sha, Ph.D. There comes a time in every parent’s life when she has to decide how much she is willing to sacrifice for the good of her children’s education. In our family, I have given

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N.Y. Times continues tradition of inept California coverage

Oct. 30, 2012 By Chris Reed The New York Times’ history of poor coverage of California is extreme. It always blames Prop. 13 for the state’s problems. It offers 8,000-word analyses of California’s government dysfunction that never mention the power

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