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Back to homepageTime to Carve Up California?
FEB. 21, 2012 By MICHAEL WARNKEN This issue of Splitting California into two or more states has come into the greater public eye once again. This matter is dredged up every few years by a different group of Californians who
Read MoreJohnson’s Big Plans May Backfire
Katy Grimes: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson has made no secret of the fact that he’d like a big, beautiful new sports arena in the city. Johnson is also still pushing for a change to the city charter to make the
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Assemblyman Defends Maxine Waters
Katy Grimes: I sat through a State Assembly session this morning wondering why I was there. It was obviously a thinly veiled excuse by legislators to capture the $142 per diem payment. There were the usual speeches honoring the recently
Read MoreDeputies Union Poisons Shooting Review
Commentary FEB. 17, 2012 By STEVEN GREENHUT Whenever I write about police shootings, police and union officials always mouth the same line: You, in the public and the media, have no right to jump to conclusions about the split-second decisions
Read MoreGuarded Optimism For CA Military
FEB. 16, 2012 By KATY GRIMES It could have been an episode of “The General, His Wife, The Staff, and the Military,” a movie about the scandal-plagued California National Guard. But instead, after four hours of grueling testimony at times,
Read MoreOC Unions Right, Businesses Wrong
Steven Greenhut: It’s not every day that I side with the public employee unions. In fact, it’s almost never the case, yet the Orange County Employees Association, community activists and the Occupy types were exactly right recently when they protested
Read MoreGeneral Opposes Brown’s Nominee
FEB. 15, 2012 California National Guard Brigadier General Charlotte L. Miller has announced that she will voice her opposition to legislators today about Major General David Baldwin’s nomination to the top position of the state National Guard. Miller will testify
Read MoreMore ‘Rights’ For State Employees
Katy Grimes: Since public employees have so few workplace protections and are so under-paid, Democratic Assemblyman Roger Dickinson has authored legislation to give the unionized state workers more protections from workplace discipline, and priority on state government work over private sector workers. It’s
Read MoreLegislature Advances Dental Socialism
FEB. 14, 2012 By KATY GRIMES As voters are growing increasingly wary of ObamaCare, the President’s nationalized healthcare plan, voters in California are also growing skeptical of legislators’ attempts to increase statewide healthcare. Fully implementing health care for all has drawn
Read More11 More Ways to Fix Busted Redistricting
FEB. 13, 2012 By JOHN HRABE My list of 10 Ways To Improve the Redistricting Process has elicited a large number of thoughtful responses from experts in the Capitol. One legislative office told CalWatchDog.com that they’re investigating whether any of
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