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FPPC imposes regulation on political bloggers
The California Fair Political Practices Commission just ruled this week to require campaign committees to report to the State who they pay to post “favorable or unfavorable” content on blogs, social media or online videos, on their campaign finance statements. The
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Subsidized CA green firm goes belly-up; no one thinks it’s news
When Solyndra collapsed in 2011, the failure of the Bay Area-company got lots of media coverage. Losing more than $500 million of taxpayer funds on a project that was never really vetted by federal stimulus overseers was considered news. Duh.
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Parcel tax change wouldn't help poor schools
sms spy android Does government need to grab more money for schools? One way to get it is to make it easier to pass local parcel taxes. So finds a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California.
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Modesto Junior College bans U.S. Constitution
Although governments regularly ignore the U.S. Constitution, this is ridiculous. Modesto Junior College has banned the distribution of the Constitution on campus! “The Constitution guarantees the right to free speech, but don’t try to pass out copies of it at
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On guns, D.C. works for once
Earlier this week, CalWatchdog.com’s Katy Grimes reported on the 14 gun-control bills that passed in the California Legislature amidst the annual legislative frenzy. The Democratic supermajority approved a wide range of anti-gun legislation. There were several bans on items such
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Will 'trapped loans' snag Richmond's home scheme?
phone spy software The City of Richmond's move to seize the loans of over-mortgaged homes can continue, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer ruled this week. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the reason was because “he felt the
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Labor and trade unions oppose CA lead ammo ban
A controversial bill to ban traditional lead ammunition in California by Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, passed both houses of the Legislature last week. But according to representatives of labor and trade unions, animal rights activists pressured Rendon and lawmakers to ignore
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Oct. 3 key deadline for CA response to anti-bullet-train ruling
The implications of Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny's Aug. 16 ruling that the California High-Speed Rail Authority had failed to comply with Proposition 1A — the 2008 state law giving $9.95 billion in bond seed money to the project
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Is the IRS targeting me?
I wrote a little, 10-page book on classical music that I was going to sell on Amazon’s Kindle system for 99 cents. Which means I would get 35 cents a purchase. I never was going to make any money from
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Harkey has long history of whining — about coverage, questions and more
The coverage of Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, and her $10 million lawsuit against Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Solana Beach, over his allegedly defamatory comments about Harkey's family's legal problems focused on the political subtext of the dispute. Harkey and Wyland
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