Seiler Plan to Balance the Budget

John Seiler: Why didn’t somebody think of this before? Balancing the state budget is easy. I call it the Seiler Plan to Balance the Budget. The  budget deficit is $25 billion. Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed $13 billion in budget

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Jerry: Tax Vote w/o GOP OK

John Seiler: “Ya gotta do what ya gotta do,” Bill Clinton once said about some political maneuvering he was undertaking. Clinton and Gov. Jerry Brown have had their altercations over the years, although they made nicey, nicey last year during

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Calif. Labor Federation Tweet-fest

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

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PG&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

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Brown, 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

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Brown’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

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Stalking 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

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