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Dem confab sports California stars
Sept. 4, 2012 By John Seiler Except for a hilarious Clint Eastwood stand-up routine, last week’s Republican convention in Tampa featured hardly any Californians. At their convention this week in Charlotte, Democrats are showing off their powerful California delegation. The
Read MoreWhy low-wage jobs boom is good news for California
Sept. 4, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Is there anything for California to celebrate about the news that there has been a recent “explosion” of low wage jobs? Not according to the union-backed National Employment Law Project’s new study, “Low Wage Recovery
Read MoreAB 145 attacks voter registration
Sept. 4, 2012 By Dave Roberts Seventy-two percent of Californians who are eligible to vote are registered to vote. That’s up 2 percentage points from four years ago, but down from the three-quarters of eligible Californians who were registered in
Read MoreIs Ted Lieu the state’s Ultimate Nanny?
Sept. 4, 2012 By Steven Greenhut If you want to understand just about everything that’s wrong with Sacramento, you need only peruse a press release recently sent out by Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance. Lieu is proud of his laundry list
Read MoreEncouraging signs from Todd Spitzer
Steven Greenhut: Over the years, I’ve been pretty tough on Orange County Supervisor-elect Todd Spitzer because of his closeness to the public safety unions and support for retroactive pension increases that put the county in a financial bind. I was
Read MoreDing, dong, tax bill is dead!
Sept. 1, 2012 Katy Grimes: The California Senate killed Assembly Speaker John Pérez’s AB 1500, which would have taxed out-of-state businesses. Ding dong, one more tax measure is dead… for now. Perez worked like a mad man on Friday to
Read MoreMeyerson makes ridiculous attack on GOP
Aug. 31, 2012 By John Seiler I have a lot of problems with the Republican Party. They don’t come nearly close enough to supporting as much liberty as I do. But it’s also worth pointing out ridiculous attacks on them,
Read MoreUnions target nannies and farm workers
Aug. 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes Farm workers and nannies have a couple of glaring things in common–they are jobs predominantly held by Hispanic men and women, currently exempted from overtime laws, and are being targeted by labor unions for takeover.
Read MoreAB 296 could make Gov. Brown a global warming ‘denier’
Aug. 31, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi A piece of legislation may end up putting Gov. Jerry Brown on the global warming “denier” hot seat. It’s AB 296, the Cool Pavements Research and Implementation Act, sponsored by Assembly Member Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley. That is because if
Read MoreQuantity, not quality, in Calif Assembly
Aug. 30, 2012 Katy Grimes: What do nannies, alcoholic beverages, green jobs, CalEPA, voter registration, absentee voters, manufacturers, online education, the Air Resources Board, and farm workers have in common? There was legislation about each one of these issues this
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