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Back to homepageCard Check Bill Boosts Union Punch
MAY 17, 2011 By KATY GRIMES California’s agriculture workers can expect to be unionized very soon. A bill that would allow labor unions to organize farm workers passed the Assembly Monday. SB 104 is authored by Senate President Pro Tem
Read MoreWill Spending Cutters Rot in Hell?
MAY 17, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI In my hometown of Pasadena, and I suspect statewide, there is a concerted effort of local religious leaders to bombard local newspapers with letters advocating a state increase in taxes to save public schools.
Read MoreMay Revise Blows $6.6 B Tax Windfall
MAY 16, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Call it Government Math. In his January budget proposal for fiscal 2011-12, Gov. Jerry Brown insisted on $12 billion in yearly tax increases to help close a $25 billion budget deficit. Today, in his
Read MoreIllegals Could Enjoy In-State Tuition
MAY 16, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Should illegal immigrants be allowed to access California’s higher education system at the same tuition rate as students who are legal residents of the state? That question was legislatively answered last week when the
Read MoreSEIU Tax-Increase Ads Blanket State
MAY 16, 2011 By JOHN SEILER The Budget Wars begin in earnest after the release today of Gov. Jerry Brown’s May Revise of his 2011-12 state budget proposal. In preparation, the state’s unions have been blanketing the state with pro-tax
Read MoreBlueprint Shows Budget Can Balance
MAY 14, 2011 This piece first appeared in City Journal’s new California Web site edited by Ben Boychuk. By STEVEN GREENHUT The Republican budget plan proposed on Thursday in the California Assembly wouldn’t fix the fundamental problems with the state’s
Read MoreLife A Beach For OC's $200K Lifeguards
MAY 13, 2011 By BRIAN CALLE Some lifeguards in Orange County are making upwards of $200,000 in total compensation. This revelation gives new meaning to the phrase “Life is a beach!” Tuesday, my story about lifeguard pay in Newport Beach
Read MoreProtest: 'Republicans — Pass The Bucks!'
MAY 13, 2011 by KATY GRIMES More teachers union activists were arrested at the Capitol yesterday, and it wasn’t just for using hackneyed, worn out chants. This time the arrests came when more than two dozen of the activists refused
Read MoreLook for 5 Things in May Revise
MAY 13, 20211 By JOHN SEILER Next Monday, Gov. Jerry Brown will release his “May Revise” to his January budget proposal for fiscal year 2011-12, which begins on July 1. Looking beyond the hoopla and spin, here are the top
Read MoreTax '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
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