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A Jagged Legislative Battle Ground

Katy Grimes: During Gov. Jerry Brown’s first year in office, business interests were able to kill so many bills they came out ahead, a recent news story reported. Is that so? Just how well are California businesses doing right now?

Choo-Choo Boondoggle Runs Off Cliff

CalWatchdog Staff January 4, 2012

John Seiler: Ding-dong, the stupid bullet train is dead. It’s all over but the scrambling for a couple hundred million dollars of our tax money in various funds. The California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group yesterday issued a report condemning the

California Faces Decisive 2012

CalWatchdog Staff January 3, 2012

BY JOHN SEILER JAN. 4, 2012 It’s fun to gloat about our great weather when calling freezing relatives Back East on New Year’s Day. And some good things are keeping the sun shining this year. Silicon Valley’s global technology dominance

Beautiful Kim Faces Ugly Tax Increase

CalWatchdog Staff January 3, 2012

Commentary JAN. 4, 2012 By JOHN SEILER It sounds like a sequel to a Clint Eastwood movie: The Beautiful, the Bad and the Ugly.” The beautiful is Kim Kardashian. The bad are the tax increasers. And the ugly is the

Chino Hills Anxious For PUC Decision

CalWatchdog Staff January 3, 2012

Katy Grimes: The City of Chino Hills is gearing up for the next big battle in its fight with the Public Utility Commission and Southern California Edison over the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project in Chino Hills – 200 foot electrical transmission towers