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Worst roads — highest taxes
California has the highest income, sales and gas taxes in America — and the worst roads. Reported CBS Los Angeles: Los Angeles topped the charts for the most gridlocked city in 2013, according to the annual Traffic Scorecard, which is
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Contra Costa case a template for Prop. 26 abuse
In recent California history, small-government advocates have no more significant victory than the triumph of Proposition 26 in 2010. Here’s an explanation of its main thrust from an analysis by the League of California Cities: “Prop. 26 is divided into
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High-speed rail: Where’s the money?
This is Part 3 of a three-part series on the new Draft 2014 Business Plan of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Part 1 was about the questions raised by the plan. Part 2 was about California’s 3rd District Court of Appeal
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Revolt against ‘dog food’ school lunches went far beyond LAUSD
As I have pointed out repeatedly as a blogger and journo, Nanny Staters are bafflingly confident that people like being bullied into living their lives in a way that Nanny Staters approve. That’s why one of my favorite stories in
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Are CA elected officials underpaid?
Just after getting a 5 percent raise, Gov. Jerry Brown, other statewide officials and legislators soon could get another boost, supposedly because they’re “underpaid.” Hey, “California is back,” Brown keeps saying. The CA Dem party is meeting this weekend in Los
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Sen. Gaines is suing Covered California
Obamacare’s most vocal critic in the California Legislature has announced that he will be filing a lawsuit Wednesday against Covered California. Sen. Ted Gaines, R-El Dorado Hills, has recently sparred with Covered California’s director, Peter Lee, over accountability pertaining to the
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Global cooling update
How’s that global warming/climate change working out? California still must implement AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. It was signed into law way back eight years ago by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who’s long gone from office to
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Dan Walters figures out Gov. Brown wants bullet train dead
For a few months, Cal Watchdog has been the only outlet in the media underlining how fundamentally strange and self-defeating the actions of the state government have been in defending the bullet train. After an August court ruling from Sacramento
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LAO: Bullet train could increase greenhouse gases by 2020
Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to spend the lion’s share of cap-and-trade auction revenue on the high-speed rail project won’t help the state meet its goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020, according to a recent Legislative Analyst’s Office report.
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