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Back to homepageRush Limbaugh on Stockton bankruptcy
April 5, 2013 By John Seiler Unlike most East Coast commentators, Rush Limbaugh knows something about California. Sacramento, where he launched his radio show in the 1980s, is his adopted home town. What he said on his show about the
Read MoreBill targets business on air quality issues
April 4, 2013 By Katy Grimes Lawmakers are notorious for responding to tragedies and accidents with often unnecessary legislation. It’s a Kodak moment none seem to be able to resist, especially over environmental issues. It happened again Wednesday in the
Read MoreTop 5 travel tips for Legislators on international junkets
April 4, 2013 By John Hrabe I used to think that I was the world’s most well-traveled Californian. In the past eighteen months, I’ve traveled to more than 70 cities in two dozen countries on four continents. I spent two
Read MorePoliticians seek special enviro deal on arena, Part II
April 4, 2013 By Katy Grimes This is Part Two of a two-part series. Part one is here. Sacramento has spent 13 years trying to build a publicly funded sports arena. Prior to the current deal, the previous deal died only 11 months
Read MoreBills make it easier for agencies to penalize biz
April 4, 2013 By Katy Grimes Wednesday the Senate Environmental Quality Committee passed three bills, despite all three bills receiving credible legal and technical challenges. The committee ignored protocol, and allowed the bills to move on with the proviso work would
Read MoreIs there ever any positive news about the bullet train?
April 4, 2013 By Chris Reed Is there ever any hard, legit good news about the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s plan to build a state bullet-train network? The stories last week about the U.S. Government Accountability Office depicting CHSRA’s ridership
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CA Leg: After we pass the bill, we’ll fix it
April 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes A strange trend is taking place at the State Capitol, and one which feels all too familiar after the passage of Obamacare. California Legislators have been passing seriously flawed and incomplete bills out of
Read MoreAnti-nuke activists aim at San Onofre
April 3, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Southern California Edison meets today with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It hopes to persuade the feds to approve its proposed license amendment for San Onofre nuclear plant, which has been offline since January 2012 because
Read More‘Unsafe handguns’ now the target of Dems
April 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes The many gun control bills being pushed through the Capitol are concerning. But many of them are also rather embarrassing. It has become evident that most of the legislators fixated on gun control have
Read MoreLegislature uses anti-gun laws as diversion
April 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes How convenient. Instead of focusing on criminals released the last two years under AB 109 and now committing new crimes, the California Legislature is diverting citizens’ attention by taking up gun control. AB 109 was the
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