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Filner signals he’ll block further reform in San Diego

Dec. 11, 2012 By Chris Reed SAN DIEGO — As I wrote for CalWatchdog just after last month’s election, there was a strong chance that successful reforms with a heavy libertarian flavor were going to be blocked going forward here

Maviglio bashes Reps on diversity — but what about Dems?

CalWatchdog Staff December 10, 2012

Dec. 10, 2012 By John Seiler I seem to be the last person in California that votes only on the issues, not by groups, or “diversity.” It wouldn’t matter at all to me if every top state office and every

Rail series: Medium-Speed Rail runs over High-Speed Rail

CalWatchdog Staff December 10, 2012

This is Part 1 of a series on Medium-Speed rail alternatives to California’s High-Speed Rail project. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. Dec. 10, 2012 By Stan Brin By now, everyone in California knows the voter-mandated High-Speed Rail

Willie Brown wants to gut Prop. 13

CalWatchdog Staff December 10, 2012

Dec. 10, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Willie Brown just reminded us why in 1990 voters passed term limits largely to move him out of his seat as California Assembly-Speaker-for-Life. Brown wrote that Prop. 13 should be reformed by “cleverly” by making “a

Vive la Foie Gras Résistance!

CalWatchdog Staff December 10, 2012

Dec. 10, 2012 By John Hrabe In 2004, then-state Senate President Pro-Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, coined a profane, albeit effective, slogan that helped convince Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign into law the nation’s first ban on foie gras. A

Calif. economy: Ya sure, you betcha, we’re fine!

CalWatchdog Staff December 10, 2012

Dec. 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes The latest barrage of “news” reports that California is enjoying an economic recovery is evidence that this is most likely being driven by Gov. Jerry Brown’s office. Ya sure, you betcha, we’re fine. Given

California high school graduation

CalWatchdog Staff December 10, 2012

Nanny staters’ school lunch debacle, chapter 237

CalWatchdog Staff December 10, 2012

Dec. 10, 2012 By Chris Reed This Associated Press story about student uprisings against federal school-lunch rules is one more reminder of how oblivious the statist left is about how people think. Of course kids want filling meals — not

Evidence Keeps Building Of Flaws In State’s Carbon Auction

CalWatchdog Staff December 9, 2012

Dec. 09, 2012 By John Hrabe California’s cap and trade regulators can’t seem to do anything right. Taxpayers, businesses and even some environmentalists are exposing the serious flaws with the state’s carbon auction. Small businesses have criticized the landmark greenhouse

Bullet-train boondoggle yields a Cabinet-level delusion

CalWatchdog Staff December 9, 2012

Dec. 9, 2012 By Chris Reed A House committee hearing Thursday at which Republicans vowed to use their majority to block new federal funding for California’s bullet-train train wreck produced this astounding passage in The Washington Post: “We’re not giving