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April 24, 2013 By John Seiler California remains a fantastic place if you have a 180 IQ and an entrepreneurial spirit. You move to Silicon Valley, live and work in a closet and devour Coke and pizza until you make
Read MoreCA global warming is big business for government
April 24, 2013 By Katy Grimes Just when Californians thought implementation of the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act couldn’t get any worse, it is. AB 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and SB 375, the sustainable communities companion
Read MoreLAT’s Steve Lopez: Pension crisis real — not unions’ fault. Huh?
April 24, 2013 By Chris Reed The unsustainability of the public employee pension system in California has been obvious for at least six or seven years to anyone who understood two simple facts: the demographics of our aging government workforce
Read MoreGerrymander backfires on Dems in Pasadena
April 23, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Gerrymandering is a strategy to manipulate political district boundaries to split the voting population in favor of the group in power. But sometimes gerrymandering is subject to the Law of Unintended Consequences and results
Read MoreMayor-forLife Bloomberg: Shred the Constitution
April 23, 2013 By John Seiler It’s terrible that four people were killed in Boston last week. But for that should we ditch the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights? That’s what New York Mayor-for-Life Michael Bloomberg insists: “The
Read MoreDriver’s license bill races through Legislature
April 23, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — Driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants is back on the table and making its way through the Capitol once again. But this latest bill asserts a licensed driver is a safer driver, based
Read MoreShawnda Westly sparks CA Democratic Party victories
Editor’s Note: This is Part Two of a two-part series. Part One is here. April 23, 2013 By John Hrabe In addition to her victorious campaign strategies in 2012, California Democrat Party officials recognize Democratic Party Executive Director Shawnda Westly’s
Read MoreN.Y. Times shames Mercury-News on AB 32 coverage
April 23, 2013 By Chris Reed The fact that no one in the California media besides me has reported that the Obama administration considers fracking no big deal and just another heavy industry is pretty amazing. Obama’s picks for EPA
Read MoreCA Dems’ mega weapon: Shawnda Westly
Editor’s Note: This is Part One of a two-part series. Part two is here. April 22, 2013 By John Hrabe The second night of the 2013 state convention earlier this month, California Democrats shared the downtown convention center with two
Read MoreIn LAUSD, who teaches struggling kids? Interns. Thanks, CTA.
April 22, 2013 By Chris Reed Los Angeles Unified is an ongoing, never-ending monument to the core premise of California education: Let’s make life easy for veteran adult employees. Its United Teachers Los Angeles-dominated school board has for years enforced
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