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Yes, we can break public-employee pensions
First on a series on public pensions. Sept. 20, 2012 By Mark Cabaniss The politicians in charge of “doing something” about the ongoing California pension debacle like to play a little game. It goes like this: They decry the high
Read MoreCal State illegally promotes Prop. 30 tax increase
Sept. 20, 2012 By Jennifer Kerns California State University backers of Proposition 30 are violating state law by sending out emails pushing the initiative on the Nov. 6 ballot. It would raise up to $8.5 billion a year, which supposedly would prevent
Read MoreSacramento redevelopment alive and thriving
Sept. 19, 2012 Katy Grimes: All cities go through ebbs and flows of building, development, and restoration of historical buildings. Some cities are much better at general planning, and decisions of restoration and renovation. Saccramento is not one of those.
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37 Is the new 65: A field day for trial lawyers
Commentary Sept. 19, 2012 By Laer Pearce The warm, caring hands of government are poised to protect us once again. Just like how California started protecting us in 1986 from chemicals it knew, in its wisdom, could cause cancer, birth
Read MoreThe coming American energy independence
Sept. 19, 2012 By Chriss Street This is a crucial development for California, which recently slipped to fourth among the 50 states in oil production. Texas remains first, followed by North Dakota and its lucrative new Bakken formation, then Alaska in
Read MoreSan Francisco offloads green power bills onto U.S. taxpayers
Sept. 19, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi San Francisco must have taken a chapter out of Laer Pearce’s new book “Crazifornia.” The city’s new CleanPower SF plan garners subsidies from U.S. taxpayers for green-power purchases. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But you would have
Read MoreSome bloggers still concerned about FPPC censorship
Sept. 18, 2012 By John Hrabe California’s chief political watchdog sent the blogosphere into a collective tizzy earlier this year. In April, Ann Ravel, chairwoman of the Fair Political Practices Commission, floated the idea that California become the first government
Read MoreTax slave revolt against union tyranny spreads
Sept. 18, 2012 By John Seiler The problem with public-employee unions getting collective bargaining is that they then sit on both sides of the negotiating table. “This is our opportunity to elect our own bosses,” as union leader Ronda Walen
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