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Mayors Scoff At Redevelopment Cuts

JAN. 27, 2010 This story first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner. By KATY GRIMES Redevelopment is crucial to creating jobs in California to fight the plague of 12.5 percent unemployment, the mayors of the state’s nine largest cities insisted

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Black Woman Enslaved

John Seiler: I thought the 13th Amendment abolished slavery? Not for Kelley Williams-Bolar, who is being enslaved in a prison and with “community service” because she sent her kids to the wrong school in the government’s monopoly-school system (itself a

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Steinberg no longer fights budget cuts

JAN. 24, 2011 By DAVE ROBERTS Just a few months ago Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg excoriated then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $1 billion budget cut for social services, calling it “misguided, cruel, unnecessary and preventable,” according to the Los Angeles

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Is Brown Dodging Pension Reform?

JAN. 24, 2011 At a League of California Cities event in Sacramento, Gov. Jerry Brown promised local officials struggling under the weight of pay and benefit costs that he would, indeed, put forward pension-reform proposals in the coming weeks. Yet

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Wastrel Cities Prove Brown's Plan Is Right

JAN. 21, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT California cities like to depict themselves as the victims of a bad economy and a profligate state government intent on taking away “their” tax dollars and diverting it to the bureaucracies in Sacramento. But

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On-Line Retailers Are Tax Targets

JAN. 21, 2011 By KATY GRIMES In a move designed to be a revenue booster for California, an online sales tax bill has been revived again. But many small online affiliate business owners are saying that if the bill is passed

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SFSU Whitewashes History

JAN. 20, 2011 By STAN BRIN My alma mater, San Francisco State University, celebrates Nov. 6, 1967 as the birth of a movement to create the first department and college of Ethnic Studies. I remember Nov. 6, 1967 very differently,

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State Ed Officials Fear Looming Ed Cuts

JAN. 20, 2011 By KATY GRIMES During Tuesday’s hearing to discuss education cuts in the light of tough budget times, Assembly members failed to analyze the cost of compensation and benefits of teachers and administrators in California’s higher education system,

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Minimum Wage Hike Would Hurt Poor

JAN. 18, 2011 By JOHN BRINKMAN One of the first labor proposals (AB10) to be considered under Gov. Jerry Brown’s new administration, introduced by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, to increase the minimum wage, must be fought tooth and nail by

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Brown Targets Corporate Welfare

JAN. 17, 2011 This really could be the beginning of the end for the state’s redevelopment agencies, those noxious, corporate-welfare-enabling entities that have wreaked havoc on property rights in California since the 1950s. The new governor’s budget plan would eliminate

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