Gays Make History In California
Katy Grimes: Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed a strange new bill into law yesterday requiring public schools in California to teach students about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, beginning January 1, 2011. California public school textbooks will be required
Read MoreI'll Drink to AB 1014
John Seiler: After a six-month assault on Californians’ pocketbooks and liberties, the Legislature finally did something right: It passed AB 1014, which allows small beer makers to open tasting rooms. Reported SignOnSanDiego: Current law bars breweries from opening a tasting
Read MoreLeg Wants to Regulate Cough Syrup
Ali Meyer: It’s Lil Wayne’s drug of choice. Kids call it robo-tripping. Cough syrup isn’t just for colds anymore. State Sen. Joe Simitian is attempting to pass SB 514, a bill that would prohibit the sale of dextromethorphan (DXM), a
Read MoreCA Businesses Split for Utah
JULY 13, 2011 What do California-based companies Adobe Systems, eBay, Electronic Arts, Oracle and Twitter have in common? All have expanded over the past two years not in the Golden State, but in neighboring Utah. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert makes
Read MoreNunez: Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Katy Grimes: On the first day of the hearing in a lawsuit against the State of California and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for commuting the sentence of Esteban Nunez, son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, the elder Nunez clearly
Read MoreVoters Might Get to Kill Death Penalty
Editor’s Note: Some corrections to this article were added after comments from Natasha Minsker, Death Penalty Policy Director of the ACLU of Northern California. JULY 9, 2011 By ALI MEYER If SB 490 becomes law, voters could have a chance to kill the death penalty.
Read MoreDemocrats Kill Abusive Lawsuit Bill
JULY 8, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Commentary There have been several bills in the last few years authored to stop lawyers who file frivilous lawsuits and shakedown businesses for not having “adequate” Americans With Disabilities Act handicapped accessibility. Or who have
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 MoreNoted Lawyer Slammed in Judicial Gulag
JULY 5, 2011 By RICHARD TRAINOR When I met Richard Fine in the summer of 2001, he was riding high. Shortly after that he was rotting in jail. A prominent attorney with a thriving practice in Beverly Hills, in the
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