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Back to homepageSan Francisco offloads green power bills onto U.S. taxpayers
Sept. 19, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi San Francisco must have taken a chapter out of Laer Pearce’s new book “Crazifornia.” The city’s new CleanPower SF plan garners subsidies from U.S. taxpayers for green-power purchases. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But you would have
Read MoreRevenge of the nurses: The back story of PERB’s radicalization
Sept. 19, 2012 By Chris Reed In 1999, California Democrats celebrated Gray Davis’ election as governor the previous fall by sending him a slew of legislation they knew that his Republican predecessor, Pete Wilson, would never have approved. Most notoriously,
Read MoreCalifornia burns as politicians fiddle
Sept. 18, 2012 By Katy Grimes The most recent culmination of the insane end of the California Leguslature’s two-year session will probably live in infamy when tales of California’s demise are told in the future. Still reeling from the madness,
Read MoreSome bloggers still concerned about FPPC censorship
Sept. 18, 2012 By John Hrabe California’s chief political watchdog sent the blogosphere into a collective tizzy earlier this year. In April, Ann Ravel, chairwoman of the Fair Political Practices Commission, floated the idea that California become the first government
Read MoreTax slave revolt against union tyranny spreads
Sept. 18, 2012 By John Seiler The problem with public-employee unions getting collective bargaining is that they then sit on both sides of the negotiating table. “This is our opportunity to elect our own bosses,” as union leader Ronda Walen
Read MoreThe California train to nowhere
Sept. 18, 2012 By B. Wayne Hughes Jr. This past July, the California Legislature approved starting construction on the first 130 miles of the much hyped high-speed rail from San Francisco to Anaheim. That’s an ante of $8 billion just
Read MoreVideo: SNL’s new Obama character displays vapid campaign
Sept. 17, 2012 By John Seiler This year’s presidential campaign should be exciting. Instead, it’s the most vapid I’ve seen since I started watching them in 1964. President Obama, understandably, is playing it safe because he’s ahead. But why is
Read MoreChicago solves student-violence problem
Sept. 17, 2012 By John Seiler Leave it to The Onion to point out something interesting. For the past week, the Chicago schools system has solved its endemic school-violence problem: CHICAGO—Jubilant Chicago Public Schools officials announced Friday that, for five
Read MoreArnold’s biographer beats up on his old buddy. Good!
Sept. 17 By Chris Reed Arnold Schwarzenegger was such a disappointment as governor that it’s somewhat of a disappointment that the reason the media have turned on him has to do with his personal misconduct, not the bait-and-switch he pulled
Read MoreBernanke’s QE3 slamming California economy
Sept. 17, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Those desperately in search of a cure for cancer will often try apricot pits bought in Mexico, exotic herbs or light therapy treatments. None has been proven to be effective. In an action with
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