New budget – election day trap

Katy Grimes: News came late yesterday that the “big five” finally reached agreement on the state’s budget. Yeah right. They reached a “handshake agreement.” Now there’s something you can bank on. What an embarrassment. And someone is going to lose

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Meg's amateurish response

John Seiler: As I’ve been writing, despite spending more than $120 million (so far), Meg Whitman’s campaign is amateurish. The Nannygate scandal shows that. When the scandal broke, what she should have said was, “I’ve been saying all along that

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Prop 23 could improve state's economy

Katy Grimes: The Legislative Analyst’s Office reported today that if Proposition 23 is passed, the state’s economy will improve “modestly.” However, before LAO analyst Mark Newton could give the rest of the good news, his testimony was interrupted and redirected.

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Gov Hails One Vehicle Code

Anthony Pignataro: Traffic speeders have no fear — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed SB 949 into law. This bill, authored by Senator Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, bans cities from enforcing their own vehicle codes in an attempt to generate revenue

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Arnold Goes Soft On Pay Scandal

Steven Greenhut: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is not serious about reining in the abusive salaries and pensions at the local level. He vetoed AB827, which would have prohibited “an employment contract for a local excluded employee, as defined, from including any

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State Opens Dusty Files

OCT. 1, 2010 On Thursday I took a break from high-speed rail controversies and death penalty analysis by walking over to the State Archives.  Located a block away from the Capitol, the Archives are home to our state’s most precious

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Who Cares About Nannies?

Steven Greenhut: If only Meg Whitman were an actual human being, rather than a carefully crafted campaign machine surrounded by scores of advisers, she could have indignantly mocked the Jerry Brown/Gloria Allred cheap-shot October surprise regarding Whitman’s illegal nanny. Whitman

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Big Green Dries Out Big Valley

OCT. 1, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT When most people think of California, they think obviously enough about the populous and influential coastal cities, from the gleaming Southern California coast to the Bay Area. But east of the coastal ranges and

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