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Back to homepageCancel Prop. 71 Stem Cell Funding?
Feb. 23, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI On Feb. 9, the $123 million Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regenerative Medicine Building opened on the campus of the University of California, San Francisco to house the Eli and Edy Broad Center of Regeneration
Read MoreCA Budget Still Needs Fumigation
Feb. 22, 2011 By JOHN SEILER As Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature continue crafting a budget, skunks keep being thrown into the room. The biggest skunk is that the $146 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System, CalSTRS, is effectively
Read MoreCourts' 2-Billion-Buck IT Bust
FEB. 22, 2011 By KATY GRIMES While courtrooms across the state are being closed, courthouse employees furloughed and criminal and civil cases taking record time to come to trial, the Administrative Office of the Courts refuses to halt the implementation
Read MoreWill Illinois Beat California To Default?
This article is about Illinois, but it has obvious implications for California. FEB. 19, 2011 By CHRISS STREET Illinois’ powerful Wall Street syndicate of bond underwriters led by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs just postponed the state’s sale of $3.7
Read MoreCA's Wind Power Scam
FEB. 19, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Wind power is a medieval technology that most people visualize coming from Dutch windmills in the 1600’s and 1700’s. The 1600’s were also known for the Tulip Bulb Mania, which the Dutch fittingly called “windhandel”
Read MoreAnother Scam by the Legislature
John Seiler: No wonder the California Legislature’s approval rating by citizens is at 10%, an all-time low. Street gangs are held in higher esteem than the Legislature Gang. Consider this sweet scam: By convening for less than a half hour
Read MoreWill Wisconsin Protests Come to California?
Feb. 18, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Today Wisconsin, tomorrow California? The battle between government-employee unions and state budgets was inevitable once the unions were given collective bargaining rights over the past 50 years. The battle boiled over the past few
Read MoreTaxes Don't Fix Obesity
Katy Grimes: Despite the stated goal, Assemblyman Bill Monning’s proposed soda tax is just another money grab. Just like the recently announced soda-tax approved by Sacramento’s City Council, Monning claims that his goal is to fight obesity. Monning, a Democrat
Read MoreMore At Stake Than Budget Realignment
FEB. 17, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Some county officials are balking at Gov. Jerry Browns proposal, in his January budget, to ”realign” state services to counties to save money. Brown’s proposal was prompted by a summer 2010 proposal by Senate
Read MoreDisarming the Parent Trigger
FEB. 16, 2011 Last week Gov. Jerry Brown’s new appointments to the state Board of Education disarmed the “parent trigger” law that went into effect only in January 2010. The parent trigger gives a majority of parents at a public
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