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California still, despite its many problems and follies, is the global center of the Internet. Our companies here include Google, eBay, Apple, Conexant (Internet switches), and thousands more. Public policy should be simple: more and more Internet! For everybody! Doing
Read MoreSteinberg the Philosopher
Turns out that Senator Darrell Steinberg isn’t just a Democrat, legislator from the Sacramento area or President Pro Tem of the California Senate. He’s also a philosopher right up there with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Baruch Spinoza and Winnie the
Read MoreCops cause Sacto melee
Bad cop stories have been filling the news lately, but this videotaped melee of off-duty cops causing a melee at a Sacramento Radisson boxing match is particularly shocking, because so many cops and their family members and friends willingly took
Read MoreGrab redevelopment cash
MAY 24, 2010 Few things are more ironic, and infuriatingly funny, than listening to California’s notoriously ham-fisted redevelopment agencies complain about the state’s “theft” of redevelopment funds. Last week, California cities had to comply with a Sacramento Superior Court judge’s
Read MoreCal Jobs Gap widens in 2010
MAY 24, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Instead of bashing one another for past liberal postures, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner should be talking about the California Jobs Gap. Jerry Brown should be, too. There’s no more important issue today, especially
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