More dumb bills

John Seiler: Once again, tomorrow the Legislature will miss its June 15 deadline for passing a  balanced budget — or any kind of budget. Instead, our Masters are messing again with the initiative process with dumb new bills. Sen. Mark

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FPPC investigates ‘No on 17’

JUNE 14, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI Proposition 17 may have been defeated at the polls, but that doesn’t mean the work is over for the campaign that successfully fought the measure on June 8. The Fair Political Practices Commission has

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What Budget Deadline?

Katy Grimes: With the Assembly budget deadline tomorrow, members of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) took nearly one hour during today’s floor session to honor members of the LGBT community, including having a musical performance by an

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Woohoo! CDCR is blogging!

Anthony Pignataro: Please don’t all rush there at once because we don’t want to jam up anyone’s servers, but I just wanted to tell you that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has a new website: www.cdcr.ca.gov. The

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GOP 'manifesto' trumps unions

JUNE 14, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT A political candidate can take on the public-employee unions in a nasty street rumble and emerge bloodied but victorious. That’s the message from Tuesday’s election to fill a board of supervisors seat in Orange

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GOP mod squad

JUNE 14, 2010 It’s now time for Republican moderates to put up or shut up. For years Republican moderates have insisted ad nauseam that they – not the party’s conservative base – hold the key to the future. Only middle-of-the-roaders

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