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Attack of the student zombies

Oct. 31, 2012 Katy Grimes: Beware the student zombies at CSU Sacramento and CSU Sonoma. The California Faculty Association is sponsoring a flash mob today at the colleges, “with staff and students in costume, dancing to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ with

N.Y. Times continues tradition of inept California coverage

CalWatchdog Staff October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 By Chris Reed The New York Times’ history of poor coverage of California is extreme. It always blames Prop. 13 for the state’s problems. It offers 8,000-word analyses of California’s government dysfunction that never mention the power

Whole Foods suffers second thoughts on Prop. 37

CalWatchdog Staff October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi The campaign over Proposition 37 isn’t as simple as it might seem at first glance. On the Nov. 6 ballot, the Genetically Engineered Labeling Initiative would mandate that genetically modified foods be given special labels. Whole

Prop. 30: If it fails, then it holds teacher pay hostage, not kids

CalWatchdog Staff October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 By Chris Reed Proposition 30’s fading poll prospects have led to redoubled efforts by Gov. Jerry Brown and his media allies to warn us how we will betray our schoolchildren if we don’t raise sales taxes and

Gov. Brown calls CBS reporter ‘thug’

CalWatchdog Staff October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 Katy Grimes: UPDATE: Since I wrote about Gov. Jerry Brown’s awkward confrontational moment with a Los Angeles reporter last week, I expected to see the story all over the news. When a governor behaves badly in public,

Oct. 30, 2012 Katy Grimes: The phony green jobs that I have been writing about for several years are just another inconvenient truth in this administration. The U.S. Labor Department’s Inspector General just released a report on Friday revealing that President