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MAY 18, 2010 By KATY GRIMES “Charge it on my State VISA card,” is not something you’d expect to hear from a state employee ordering office supplies, or from the Department of Transportation with the billions of dollars spent annually.
Read MoreGlobal warming war heats up
MAY 17, 2010 By DAVE ROBERTS If the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, more commonly known as AB32 for its Assembly bill number, gets put on hold by state voters this November, it may be due in part
Read MoreGovernor adopts budget realism
MAY 14, 2010 By JOHN SEILER The party’s over. That’s the message from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s austere May Revise, released today, of his budget for fiscal 2010-11, which begins on July 1. It calls for cutting $3 billion from state
Read MoreDour governor pitches deep cuts
MAY 14, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT At a press conference at 1 pm today, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a May budget revise that attempts to close a nearly $20 billion budget gap by slashing state welfare programs while maintaining current-year
Read MoreStates' rights revival in CA?
MAY 14, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Political waters are boiling all across America, including California. One of the areas this is happening is the Tenth Amendment Movement, which takes seriously the last of the Bill of Rights, which reads: “The powers
Read MoreWorkers' Comp officials reprimanded
MAY 13, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Mention workers’ compensation reform in a crowd, and eyes immediately glaze over. It can be a droll subject – unless you have skin in the game. The Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee held
Read MoreL.A.'s joke boycott of Arizona
Although I don’t back the new Arizona immigration law, I pointed out earlier that a boycott of the state would be a joke. That the parlous financial state of California and its cities would preclude any major attempt to raise
Read MoreDoomed pension reform
MAY 12, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT “One cannot be both a progressive and be opposed to pension reform,” argued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s top pension advisor, David Crane, during a pension-reform hearing on Monday. “The math is irrefutable that the losers
Read MoreGOP rebuts Dems' tax roadshow
MAY 12, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT At a press conference at the Capitol this morning marking a 50-day countdown until the end of the state’s fiscal year, Assembly Republicans made it clear that they will not accept any new taxes
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