Nanny Mayor orders supersize downsize
May 31, 2012 Katy Grimes: In the land of nanny governments, contradictions abound. In California, lawmakers have banned and taxed smoking, tried to ban plastic bags and polystyrene food containers, regulated the Happy Meal, mandated breaks and vacation time for
Read MoreCap & Trade parasite bill signals civil war on business
May 31, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Speaker John A. Perez’s push of Assembly Bill 1532 through the State Assembly on Tuesday, May 29, signals a shift from regulation of air pollution to an outright civil war on business and industry
Read MoreAssembly passes bad Cap and Trade bill
May 29, 2012 Katy Grimes: The Assembly today passed the controversial Cap and Trade bill, Assembly Bill 1532, by Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, which would deposit Cap and Trade carbon credit permit monies into a new Greenhouse Gas
Read MoreCalifornia counting its carbon tax riches
May 29, 2012 By Katy Grimes While the rest of the country shuns carbon trading schemes, California politicians continue to embrace the concept, and are forging ahead with a Cap and Trade carbon trading system. But eight states have dropped
Read MoreBig dairy sours on state price controls
May 25, 2012 By Joseph Perkins A civil war has broken out within California’s dairy industry, pitting milk producers against cheesemakers. The two sides are at odds over the state Department of Food and Agriculture’s valuation of whey, the liquid
Read MoreState Pushing Sub-Prime Energy Home Loans
May 24, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Wasn’t the sub-prime disaster of the last decade bad enough? From 2003 to 2007, it was likely the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) helping unqualified low-income renters fill out sub-prime home
Read MoreMore liberal prattle: “We’re all one”
May 21, 2012 By Katy Grimes Too much liberal drivel in today’s newspapers passes for news as well as journalism. Gone is most of the hard news, replaced by front page human-interest stories and social welfare issues. This prattle is
Read MoreThe world according to CARB
May 18, 2012 By Katy Grimes Recently, a memo sent out by the California Air Resources Board referred to the industries CARB has identified as polluters as California’s “regulated class.” These polluters are now subject to the heavy-handed rule and
Read MoreWill Cap and Trade cure California’s deficit?
May 18, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi California voters may soon ask themselves: “Why vote for an $8.5 billion sales and income tax increase in November 2012 if Cap and Trade is going to raise $50 billion to $100 billion for
Read MoreAre the police taking over CA?
May 18, 2012 By Katy Grimes Legislators have just involved themselves in professional sports. A bill was passed in the Assembly Thursday requiring all owners of all professional stadiums and sports arenas to post signs displaying the text message number and
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