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John Seiler: Governments almost always lose money when the try to out-guess market demand by investing the taxpayers’ money in a product. It just happened again as the city of Salinas lost $540,000 it invested in a green car company
Read MoreAssembly Carves Up Organic Farming
JULY 19, 2011 By KATY GRIMES California is still growing government, but in an unlikely place. The Assembly now has its own organic legislative committee called the Assembly Select Committee on Sustainable and Organic Agriculture, which will “seek to improve
Read MoreRadio: Lusvardi Blasts Enviro Crazies
John Seiler: On June 15, our colleague Wayne Lusvardi appeared on AM 600 KOGO in San Diego. Click here for a podcast. The host is Chris Reed, an editorialist with the San Diego Union. Wayne discusses his recent article, “CA
Read MoreGov. Brown Chases Business to Vegas
John Seiler: Gov. Jerry Brown and the other anti-business fanatics in the Legislature and government unions just don’t get it: If you attack businesses, they leave California. A recent departure was Pixel2Canvas, which split Lake Forest for North Las Vegas.
Read MoreSchool Food Statism Makes Kids Sick
JULY 18, 2011 With many public schools now feeding children breakfast and lunch, and even forbidding parents to send homemade lunches to school for their children, it is obvious that the state has decided that it is a better parent.
Read MoreRanked Choice Vote Favors Asian SF Mayor
JULY 18, 2011 By DAVE ROBERTS There are currently nine top-tier candidates for mayor of San Francisco. But the candidates who are not Asian-American may stand little chance under the city’s ranked-choice voting system. San Francisco voters will specify their
Read MoreStopping cop cell-phone searches
JULY 18, 2011 Thanks to a little-discussed state Supreme Court decision in January, the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against “unreasonable searches and seizures” don’t necessarily apply in California anymore. Yet few of our fellow citizens have been upset about
Read MoreGays 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
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