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Back to homepage'Emergency' Relieves Bureaucracy
OCT. 26, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Last Thursday a mentally ill young man walked into a mall in Placer County, and started a fire in a game store. He also told the store’s manager that he had a bomb in
Read MoreBook Exposé of Arnold
John Seiler: Too bad we didn’t have this info back in 2003. Although I’ve suspected a lot of it all along — such as Frau Maria running the show — and have written about it right here on CalWatchDog.com Moviefone.com
Read MoreFirefighters Fiddled, Mall Burned
Steven Greenhut: Check out my latest piece on lewrockwell.com regarding the firefighter response to the Roseville mall fire. In it, I argue: I hear endlessly from firefighters who typically earn pay and benefit packages of $175,000 a year here in
Read MoreFERC Denied Brown's Green Tax Hike
OCT. 25, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Back on July 15, in a story mainly reported in only trade journals and Web sites, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied Attorney General Jerry Brown’s appeal to put the cost of renewable
Read MoreUnions bow out of OC supe race
OCT. 25, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT Those Orange County political observers who have been awaiting a repeat of the June supervisorial grudge match that pitted pension-reforming Shawn Nelson, then a Fullerton councilman, against union-backed Anaheim Councilman Harry Sidhu must be
Read MoreSharp Contrasts in Steinberg Debate
OCT. 22, 2010 By KATY GRIMES A little-publicized political debate ended up being quite charged Thursday evening at Sacramento State between incumbent Democrat Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, 20-year old Republican college student Marcel Weiland and libertarian Steve Torno.
Read MoreRoad To Serfdom Paved With Politicians
OCT. 22, 2010 Here we are in another election cycle, bombarded by political advertising and politicians, offering claims of selfless “public service.” How did politicians and government employees hijack the concept of “public service”? When Hillary Clinton was running for
Read MorePublic Pay Study Seems Bogus
OCT. 21, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT The media have been providing serious reporting about a “UC Berkeley” study showing that public employees earn a total salary and benefit package that’s about the same as those in the private sector. This
Read MoreSen. Jenny Oropeza Passes Away
Anthony Pignataro: I hate writing stuff like this. I hate calling people to report stories like this. No one wants to talk, and I can’t blame them, because I don’t like it either. But it’s gotta be done. Senator Jenny
Read MoreState Pension Meltdown Coming
OCT. 21, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The independent Milken Institute has just released a report “Addressing California’s Pension Shortfalls” that has an alarming finding: assuming no corrections are made, the combined liability of the three major state pension funds (Cal-PERS,
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