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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 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
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Beatles on Tax Day
Today is Tax Day, the day when the government puts a gun to your head and shouts, “Stand and deliver!” It’s the day they make sure you give them what they think you owe to pay for government’s massive waste,
Read MoreAssembly Candidates Need Gravitas
Two of the Sacramento politicians who are running for the same state Assembly seat, can’t see fit to even cast votes as members of the Sacramento Regional Transit board of directors. Sacramento City Council member Lauren Hammond and Sacramento County
Read MoreTax day spurs calls for activism
APRIL 15, 2010 By EVELYN STACEY On April 14, the eve of the tax-day Tea party, Americans for Prosperity, a free-market grassroots group, hosted a dinner fundraiser packed with speakers across the conservative political spectrum. “Spring is finally here —
Read MoreGreenlining Series: Uncle Sam opens bank vault
This is the third 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 Congress gave
Read MorePunitive Sales and Use Tax Modified
The Board of Equalization (BOE) has an unusual deadline for the payment of Sales and Use taxes by California businesses, making it very easy for payments to be considered late, mounting large interest payments. The Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee
Read MoreGovernor Steinberg?
Just wanted to let you guys know that today Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is headed to New York City to accept some environmental award. Since the state still lacks a lieutenant governor, that means Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is
Read MoreCARB acted like 'mob enforcer'
APRIL 14, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO The metaphor Kit Enger uses most often when talking about the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is that of the mob enforcer. As in, “It was like I was forced to buy protection from
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