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Back to homepageDing, Dong, Redevelopment Is Dead
Feb. 6, 2012 The California Redevelopment Association’s website this week was still up and running and featuring job postings for redevelopment jobs, although the site does report that the association’s annual convention and expo has been canceled. It’s just a
Read MoreSacto To Pawn Parking For Arena
Katy Grimes: Would you pawn a $5,000 Rolex for $150? While only someone desperate for quick cash would do something so irresponsible, the City of Sacramento is making plans to cut a similar deal. City officials are about to pawn
Read MoreRepetitive Media Bias Denial
Katy Grimes: Twice in one week, the Sacramento Bee printed grating op eds by retired Bee editors. Earlier in the week, former Bee editor Peter Schrag wrote that the Occupy movement is being orchestrated by a “shadowy right-wing cabal.” With
Read MoreFeds Own Almost Half of Calif.
John Seiler: According to the Declaration if Independence, America consists of “Free and Independent States”; 13 originally, 50 today. Except that the centralized tyranny in Washington, D.C. owns 45.3 percent of the land in California. That’s better than the 84.5
Read MoreNutty CA Court Attacks Hybrid Cars
John Seiler: I’d rather walk that drive a hybrid car. After bourbon, the internal combustion engine is mankind’s greatest invention. All talk of oil “shortages” and too much “pollution” is just socialist blather used to destroy our freedoms. But some
Read MoreCalSTRS Drops Fund Projections
John Seiler: Putting its investment projections slightly more in line with reality, yesterday CalSTRS downgraded its fund forecast. According to its own announcement, “The governing board of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) today adopted a new set of
Read MoreGovernment Takes a Bead on Sugar
Feb. 3, 2012 Imagine driving home from a Super Bowl party and being stopped at a police checkpoint. You roll down your window and an officer asks what you’ve had to drink. “Just a couple Red Bulls,” you reply. “I’m
Read MoreBig Brother CARB Is Watching You
FEB. 3, 2012 By JOHN SEILER I love cars. The best auto site in the Internet is EricPetersAutos.com. He writes not just about old and new cars, but about the politics of cars. Another great site, LewRockwell.com, just published an article
Read MoreLAWeekly: Rail Misses LAX By Mile
Steven Greenhut: Here’s a great story by LA Weekly that highlights the incompetence of government planners: “As they tout a posh redo of the Tom Bradley International Terminal meant to reposition LAX as a travel hub for the new millennium,
Read MoreProvidence Could Cut Pensions
John Seiler: I’ve been arguing for a couple of years that the pension problem in California is so bad that the state will have to cut existing pensions. Is that supposedly banned by the California Constitution? It doesn’t matter. Constitutions can
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