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Katy Grimes: You’ve just got to love Twitter for those moments in life when reporters are banned from covering events. Yesterday and today, the California Labor Federation’s joint legislative conference has been in full-swing, but was announced as closed to
Read MorePG&E: Jump Start Nuke Power License
MARCH 22, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Pacific Gas & Electric appears to be rushing to relicense the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant 13 years before the current license even expires. Many are asking: Why the big rush? PG&E is under a
Read MoreBrown, Harris Attack Suburban Growth
MARCH 21, 2011 By LAER PEARCE The Santa Clarita Valley, a pleasant enough suburb of 250,000 in northern Los Angeles County, has the dubious distinction of the place most often targeted by terrorists over the eight seasons of the television
Read MoreBrown’s Budget Blockbuster
MARCH 22, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI (Satire) Gov. Jerry Brown may have learned in Jesuit school how to put the proverbial sacrificial lamb on the state budget altar for slaying. Or maybe he learned from all those Hollywood cinema tycoons
Read MoreStalking Law Hurts Small Claims Courts
MARCH 22, 2011 By STAN BRIN California’s Small Claims Courts are in trouble. Every year, fewer people take their cases before the local Judge Judy. But no one seems to know why this is happening, or even that the problem
Read MoreActivists Gear Up to Stop Tax Increase
MARCH 21, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Opponents of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed $12 billion tax increase already are spoiling for a fight. They’re not waiting to find out the fate of the governor’s proposal to put the matter before voters
Read MoreLuntz Warns Divided GOP on Taxes
MARCH 21, 2011 UPDATED 8:15 p.m. By KATY GRIMES As nearly 2,000 Republicans from around the state met in Sacramento over the weekend for the California Republican Party Convention, the elephant in every room was the divide within the party.
Read MoreNational City Eminent Domain On Ropes?
MARCH 21, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Just as State Assembly Republicans were pulling their punches to keep eminent domain alive for redevelopment in California, a timely eminent domain case involving the taking of a youth boxing center has emerged in National
Read MoreCA GOP Saves Eminent Domain!
Commentary MARCH 18, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT California Republicans love to talk about limiting government, fighting bureaucracy and keeping taxes low, but on Thursday they proved that this is nothing more than a rhetorical device. Given the opportunity to rein
Read MoreBudget Negotiations Getting Combative
MARCH 18, 2011 By KATY GRIMES The Legislature Thursday passed the main budget bill, with nearly $14 billion in spending reductions. Budgets would be slashed for libraries, higher education, parks, programs for the poor, universities and colleges, state parks and
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