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JUNE 24, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO The danger is apparently everywhere, all around us. No need to worry anymore about a budget tens of billions of dollars out of balance, or hundreds of millions in unfunded pension liabilities, because this
Read MoreWe’re all undocumented!
JUNE 24, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI California senators and assembly members gathered on the West Steps of the Capitol Wednesday to formally introduce a boycott resolution against the state of Arizona in response to its controversial immigration law. The proposed
Read MoreTaste Makes Waste
JUNE 23, 2010 By KATY GRIMES An “Instructional tasting event” does not sound very inviting, but offer a free taste of wine, beer or scotch, and the customers will line up. Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena, wants to allow retail outlets
Read MoreDrunken deputies on the job
Steven Greenhut: The police officer who gives you a speeding ticket or DUI might be drunk, according to the Los Angeles County independent review department. This is not an anomaly, but a growing problem within the department (and probably within
Read MoreIllegals may get more ed aid
JUNE 23, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI The Assembly Higher Education Committee considered the SB1460 California Dream Act this afternoon, a law that would extend the ability to apply for state financial aid to illegal immigrants. AB540, enacted in 2001, extends
Read MoreState’s most sickening building
JUNE 22, 2010 By KATY GRIMES The Board of Equalization employees are sick of work. Actually, they are sick because of work. The BOE headquarters building has been making employees sick, and the state has known it for several years.
Read MoreDeflating green-jobs bubble
JUNE 22, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The California Jobs Initiative on the upcoming November ballot would suspend the green power provisions of Assembly Bill 32 (AB32) – the Global Warming Solutions Act – until the unemployment rate drops to 5.5
Read MoreAnother economic dip coming?
JUNE 21, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Here’s something Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown should be debating. As the California budget is haggled over by the governor, Legislature and the powerful government unions, one thing everyone assumes is that the California
Read MoreYee targets higher-ed non-profits
JUNE 21, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI Lawmakers rarely take up CalWatchdog’s mission to shed light on waste, fraud, and abuse in government. But on June 16, the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee approved SB 330, sponsored by Senator Leland Yee, D-San
Read MoreSenators Support Irish Reunification
Katy Grimes: I’d be remiss if I didn’t share the very important senate resolution presented by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, and boldly supported by Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, which states that SJR 27 expresses the California Legislature’s “strong support
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