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John Seiler: Riverside County Supervisors Jeff Stone just gave up — at least for now — on his call for the secession of the new state of Southern California. Reported the Orange County Register, Stone “had proposed that 13 counties
Read MoreRent Seeking Coastal Commission
Lloyd Billingsley: California’s Coastal Commission does a fine job of preventing California’s working people from living near the Pacific Ocean but is now taking things to a new level. The CCC now wants to limit the amount of time coastal residents can
Read MoreFed Debt Default Imperils CA Budget
JULY 14, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Purgatory is a temporary place of agony, torment and suffering between heaven and hell. that is apparently where California’s state budget might be headed if the federal government, by failing to raise the federal
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 MorePension reformer files 3 state initiatives
JULY 13, 2011 Editor’s Note: The following is a statement from the California Center for Public Policy regarding three initiatives it filed with the state attorney general on Tuesday: The California Center for Public Policy submitted three initiatives for titles and
Read MoreHahn Victory Portends Obama Defeat
JULY 13, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Yesterday Democrat Janice Hahn beat Republican Craig Huey to fill the 36th Congressional District, a severely gerrymandered district covering much of Southwest Los Angeles. But her victory total, getting just 55 percent, was a
Read MoreDems Trying to Destroy Initiative Process
Note: This first appeared in City Journal California. JULY 13, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT A series of bills pending in California’s state legislature would severely curtail the use of voters’ initiatives and referenda — and have already sparked a long-overdue
Read MoreAssembly Budget Advice To Congress
Katy Grimes: In what should have been an thoroughly embarrassing move on Monday, California’s Assembly voted and passed a resolution to tell Congress to raise the national debt ceiling. Really. Even with my writer’s imagination, I could not make this
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