Of Course CHP Would Hide Arnold's Affair

JUNE 3, 2011 By CHRIS REED The bombshell revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver were divorcing because the former action hero and California governor had fathered a 13-year-old boy with his family’s longtime housekeeper immediately led to speculation about

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High Speed Rail Ahead!

Katy Grimes: Despite dire warnings of increasing additional massive state debt, the Assembly just passed another High Speed Rail bill – this one establishes a brand new state agency called the Department of High Speed Rail Trains within the Business, Transportation

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Bullying Hits Close To Home

Katy Grimes: The fur was flying today in the Assembly as partisan politics trumped time-honored political decency. Just as the controversial health care bill (AB 52) was about to be introduced, Assembly Republicans’ made a formal request to caucus. But

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Bill Would Mandate Union Teacher Jobs

JUNE 2, 2011 By, KATY GRIMES An education bill is being used to increase the power of teachers’ unions. AB 515 is by Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, and was heard and voted on in the Assembly this week. It appears to

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Tax Increment = Crony Capitalism

Steven Greenhut: Republican who defend redevelopment agencies and who rallied to save them from Gov. Jerry Brown’s cuts, often argue that they don’t like the central planning and property-rights-abusing features of redevelopment, but support them as a way to keep

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Brown meanders, but sticks to taxes

JUNE 2, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Gov. Jerry Brown’s talk to the California State Association of Counties was more meandering and disjointed than usual, but the governor stuck to his talking points: Unless California voters approve of tax extensions, they

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Support for Cuts & Taxes Drops to 40%

JUNE 2, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI There is a mix of old news and new news in the results of a new opinion poll about the budget by the Public Policy Institute of California. The poll found exactly the same

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