Taxes on the rich DROP after Prop. 30 tax increase

June 14, 2013 By John Seiler Call me Nostradamus. I have predicted numerous times on CalWatchDog.com that the Propsition 30 tax increase, combined with President Obama’s national tax increases, would drop tax collections from the rich. That has happened. Board

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New attack on Prop. 13; may pass Assembly today

June 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes An Assembly Constitutional Amendment attacking Proposition 13 is expected to be heard in the Assembly today, and some are saying it may even be passed by the Assembly. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association learned

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San Onofre gets nuked

June 14, 2013 By Joseph Perkins “VICTORY!” So reads the giddy headline on the Friends of the Earth website. The anti-nuke environmental group is celebrating the surrender of Southern California Edison, which announced last week it will permanently shutter its

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The congresswoman who betrayed her Central Valley hometown

June 14, 2013 By Chris Reed A Democratic congresswoman from California wants you to know she cares about some poor people — the ones who use food stamps. This is from the Bee: “Doris Matsui of Sacramento on Wednesday pledged

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Budget ‘transparency’ murky in Senate

June 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — I watched in dismay as Senate Democrats voted yesterday to bypass proper procedure in order to play politics with the budget. They withdrew several of their budget bills from the Rules Committee,

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What’s good for the goose isn’t good enough for Congress

June 13, 2013 By Katy Grimes Congressional lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will escalate in January when Obamacare officially begins, they are thinking about quitting their government jobs, or retiring early in order to

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Charles Calderon ‘head and shoulders’ above brother Ron caught in scandal

Editor’s Note: This is Part One of a series on the Calderon family. June 13, 2013 By John Hrabe It wasn’t quite the Academy Awards. But the 60 or so people assembled last Saturday afternoon at the Whittier Center Theatre

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Dem supermajority likely to pass pro-union SB 776

June 13, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — The Democratic supermajority promised to practice restraint when it assumed control of the state Capitol after last year’s November election, effectively marginalizing Republicans. But at a June 5 SEIU rally here I

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SF takes a bead on OC gun show

June 13, 2013 By John Seiler Here’s another reason to split the state apart into at least two pieces — although many more would be better. The OC Register reports: “One of Orange County’s largest gun show operators has been

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North/South CA intensify water war

June 13, 2013  By Wayne Lusvardi A North/South California water war has been waging since William Mulholland took a civilian militia of shotgun-wielding soldiers to Owens Valley in 1927 to guard the Los Angeles Aqueduct from further bombings by local

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