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Back to homepageBudget Assumptions Don't Hold Up
JULY 7, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Not even a week old, the California budget Gov. Jerry Brown signed already is out of balance. “They did not cut as much as they needed to, and they pushed up revenue estimates,” Esmael
Read MoreBanning Junk Food At The State
Katy Grimes: Another ridiculous bill is traveling through the Legislature which would kill more small businesses in California because Big Brother wants you to lose weight. AB 727 authored by Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, would require 50 percent of the
Read MoreNew help for CA whistleblowers
K. Lloyd Billingsley: The Sacramento Bee has been vigilant on the public-employee pension issue and has now come to the aid of embattled whistleblowers. On July 3 the Bee’s associate editor Ginger Rutland broke the story of program analyst Scott
Read MoreBill would hike public pay more
Steven Greenhut: To provide an idea of the utter cluelessness of California’s majority Democrats, one need only look at AB 455, which passed the Senate on a party line vote on Tuesday. As the bill analysis explains, the legislation “Requires,
Read More$700K State Salaries Bust Budget
JUNE 6, 2011 He’s not a Nobel Prize-winning physician. He’s not the founder of a life science company. He’s not even a Hollywood plastic surgeon. Yet he earned an enviable $777,423 last year. He’s a doctor at High Desert State
Read MoreLeg Passes LGBT Textbook Mandate Bill
JULY 6, 2011 By KATY GRIMES A Fourth of July celebration in the Assembly was overshadowed on Tuesday by debate on another bill teaching about LGBT in California public schools. LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. SB 48
Read More1,400 Workers in $200,000 Club
John Seiler: How would you like to make $200,000 a year? Join the California government. State budget and deficit problems? Let somebody else worry about it. Controller John Chiang just released the salary list for the state’s top moneybags. Names
Read MoreSubsidizing A Broke Sacramento
Katy Grimes: Sacramento is living proof that the left hand doesn’t know what the other left hand is doing. Forget the right hand – there is no “right” in Sacramento. Despite the city’s $60 million deficit, city officials and several
Read MoreNo Tax Increase – State Still Standing
John Seiler: Here we are, five days into the new fiscal year. No tax increase was imposed. Instead, on July 1, we got some tax cuts here in California. That’s the spirit! The spirit of the 1776 tax revolt and
Read MoreWelfare Fraud Still Plagues California
JULY 5, 2011 By ALI MEYER Vacations subsidized by fraud. Welfare to those not meeting work demands. Welfare cards used to buy coffin nails and fire water. After such outrages, one might think the California Department of Social Services would
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