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Fund transfers are purging earmarks from state budget
Aug. 1, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Is the scandal over the State Parks Director Ruth Coleman hiding $54 million in plain sight in a special fund account beginning to make the public aware of all the political earmarks in the
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Paint it Blackout: Will India-type power crashes hit Calif.?
Aug. 1, 2012 By John Seiler India is being hit with a series of blackouts that have crippled the country. It sounds a lot like California dipped in curry. From The Economist: * India has “blackouts (during peak hours the
Read MoreFleischman sketches campaign against Brown tax increase
July 31, 2012 By John Seiler Over at Flashreport, Jon Fleischman summarized the arguments the anti-Proposition 30 campaign will be using: * If there is money to waste on high speed rail — why raise taxes? * If there is
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100 years of ‘Capitalism and Freedom’
July 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes As free marketeers celebrate famed Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman’s 100 birthday today, revisiting Friedman’s 1979 interview with Phil Donahue, where Friedman schooled Donahue, a 1970’s liberal television talk show host, on capitalism. This is an important reminder of
Read MoreMexico dissolves its FBI and moves to legalize drugs
July 31, 2012 By Chriss Street In a stunning development, President-elect Enrique Pena and his Institutional Revolutionary Party, who won control of Mexico’s government on July 1, moved to dissolve the Agencia Federal de Investigación. Modeled after the United States’ FBI,
Read MoreCalif. regs killing lumber manufacturers
July 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes California’s private forest lands are some of the most productive in the world. But state regulation of timber harvesting practices have become so overbearing and complex that the industry is losing lumber manufacturers by
Read MoreCal State’s Early Start Program sparks opposition
July 31, 2012 By Ariel Carmona Jr. In recent years the California State University system has worked to jump-start many incoming freshmen through the controversial Early Start Program. But in the wake of the ESP, a number of educators across
Read MoreSan Francisco Mayor Ed Lee attacks Chick-fil-A
July 30, 2012 By John Seiler San Francisco has a reputation as a “tolerant” city, the capital of the 1967 Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury and all that. Whatever it was in psychedelic Sixties, today it’s one of the most intolerant
Read MoreSouthern Califiornia’s new pact with the Delta water devil
July 30, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi If you dine with the Sacramento Delta water devil, you better have a long spoon. That might be the lesson that Southern California should have learned after being stuck with a $283 million bill
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