California Forward or Backward?

In a press conference yesterday for  the new “reform” group California Forward, Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles), and representatives of California Forward announced a package of reforms to “improve government effectiveness in California,

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21% of small businesses on brink

March 12, 2010 By ELISE VIEBECK A report released last week showed that 21 percent of California small businesses believe they will fold in the next three years. The annual survey, conducted by advocacy group Small Business California, revealed low

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Why Kathleen Brown lost

With Jerry Brown running for governor — again — I might as well tell my Kathleen Brown Story. Because of Wilson’s tax increases in 1991 and 1993, California was not enjoying the economic recovery that the rest of the nation

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