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By Chris Reed Sept. 21 On Thursday, the Miami Herald reported on the fury in some communities over the surge in deportations under the Obama administration. Among the most important points in the report, titled Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2011, ICE

Real science blows black hole in Arctic data

CalWatchdog Staff September 20, 2012

Sept. 20, 2012 Katy Grimes: Is man-made global warming just a lot of hot air? Speaking of hot air, somebody should tell Al Gore that the Antarctic sea ice has set another record… because it is growing. That’s great news for

Prop. 31 would redistribute local tax dollars

CalWatchdog Staff September 20, 2012

Sept. 20, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi On Wednesday at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach, I participated in a debate sponsored by the Orange County Lincoln Club on Proposition 31 on the Nov. 6 ballot. I took the “No” side.

Initiative idea: Cut CSU administrators in half

CalWatchdog Staff September 20, 2012

Sept. 20, 2012 By John Seiler Cal State University illegally is pushing the Proposition 30 tax increase, as our site reported today. The CSU Board also just approved 5 percent tuition increases if Prop. 30 doesn’t pass. That’s a real

‘People, people who need tax increases’

CalWatchdog Staff September 20, 2012

Sept. 20, 2012 By John Seiler Barbara Streisand is so rich she’s way beyond the “1 percent.” So she never would feel the tax increases from Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax increases on incomes and sales. But she would

Yes, we can break public-employee pensions

CalWatchdog Staff September 20, 2012

First on a series on public pensions. Sept. 20, 2012 By Mark Cabaniss The politicians in charge of “doing something” about the ongoing California pension debacle like to play a little game. It goes like this: They decry the high

Cal State illegally promotes Prop. 30 tax increase

CalWatchdog Staff September 20, 2012

Sept. 20, 2012 By Jennifer Kerns California State University backers of Proposition 30 are violating state law by sending out emails pushing the initiative on the Nov. 6 ballot. It would raise up to $8.5 billion a year, which supposedly would prevent

Sacramento redevelopment alive and thriving

CalWatchdog Staff September 19, 2012

Sept. 19, 2012 Katy Grimes: All cities go through ebbs and flows of building, development, and restoration of historical buildings. Some cities are much better at general planning, and decisions of restoration and renovation. Saccramento is not one of those.

37 Is the new 65: A field day for trial lawyers

CalWatchdog Staff September 19, 2012

Commentary Sept. 19, 2012 By Laer Pearce The warm, caring hands of government are poised to protect us once again. Just like how California started protecting us in 1986 from chemicals it knew, in its wisdom, could cause cancer, birth

The coming American energy independence

CalWatchdog Staff September 19, 2012

Sept. 19, 2012 By Chriss Street This is a crucial development for California, which recently slipped to fourth among the 50 states in oil production. Texas remains first, followed by North Dakota and its lucrative new Bakken formation, then Alaska in