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Back to homepageFired official slams state 'fire sale'
APRIL 16, 2010 By KATY GRIMES A complex administration plan to sell state-owned properties and then lease them back from the new owners is being compared to a short-term money raising gimmick by a recently terminited member of the commission
Read MoreDems' cheap shot at scouting
This week I read an op-ed written by Assemblyman Curt Hagman, R-Chino Hills, about how Assembly Democrats defeated Assembly Resolution 119 to honor the Boy Scouts on their 100th Anniversary. Hagman, an Eagle Scout, correctly identified that the Boy Scouts
Read MoreGreenlining series: Another ACORN-like menace?
This is the fourth part of a series produced by CalWatchdog and the Examiner regarding the Berkeley-based Greenlining Institute, a low-income housing advocacy group that critics say intimidates banks and helped cause the housing meltdown. By TORI RICHARDS Both use
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The Polite Sacramento Tea Party
The tax day Tea Party held at the state capitol in Sacramento was a bustling event, attended by colorful, patriotic and well-mannered people from all walks of life. No angry outbursts… no fights… just thousands and thousands of very polite
Read MoreRonald Reagan, tax hiker
APRIL 15, 2010 It’s Tax Day, so I decided to dedicate this space to celebrate California’s greatest tax and spend governor. The one who, more than any of the other 38 men who’ve run the state, hit residents with bigger
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