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Back to homepageTax 'Brown Out' from Cap-and-Trade?
MAY 13, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Will working class opposition to California’s cap-and-trade program lead to a tax “Brown Out”? The usual meaning of “brown out” means a lowering of power voltage for a period of time, as in “rolling
Read MoreParty Time With Sacramento
Katy Grimes: Despite facing a massive $39 million budget deficit, record numbers of home and commercial property foreclosures, cuts to public safety, the decimation of the city parks staff, and teacher layoffs, two Sacramento legislators are in a party mood.
Read MoreRDA Dynamic Shifts In Assembly
Steven Greenhut: Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, apparently is too busy offering meaningless resolutions about teachers, etc., to bring SB77 — the plan to end redevelopment — back for a vote. There’s a good reason to do so now.
Read MoreGOP Proves It Ain't Rocket Science
Steven Greenhut: The California Assembly Republicans just released a budget blueprint that closes the remainder of the state’s budget deficit without raising taxes or imposing any severe restrictions on the state Leviathan. It doesn’t cut any education funding or law
Read MoreLindsay Lohan Given Absurd Sentence
MAY 12, 2011 By JOHN SEILER One thing I’d like to know is how many millions of our tax dollars the government spent to convict beautiful actress Lindsay Lohan of petty theft. You know they spent that much because the
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Paywatch: $200,000 Lifeguard Salary
John Seiler: In better days, lifeguards were young guys and gals who pulled hapless folks out of the drink. It usually was a temporary, summer job. Now they’re beneficiaries of California’s massive pay, perks and benefits to government workers. Writes
Read MoreLong Goodbye to the Middle Class
MAY 12, 2011 The middle class of California is deteriorating right before our eyes. And at the current pace of destruction imposed by the state’s lawmakers, it won’t be long before the gap widens between the ruling government class and
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