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Unions or cities pushing more tax increases?

July 19, 2012 Katy Grimes: Not wanting to be left out of the latest trend, it appears that Sacramento’s City Council wants to file for bankruptcy as well. “An overwhelming majority of the council has expressed support for raising the

Court rules greenies told a whopper of a smelt fish story

CalWatchdog Staff July 19, 2012

July 19 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Mark Twain once wrote: “Don’t tell fish stories where people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.” The farmers in the California Central Valley know that environmentalists have been

Gov seals CA crash with high-speed rail bill

CalWatchdog Staff July 19, 2012

July 19, 2012 By Katy Grimes Even though high-speed rail has become nothing more than a pipeline project for grabbing big money and a big lie, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the rail bill Wednesday, sealing California’s economic fate. Because of the

Video: Sen. Rand Paul: End aid to Pakistan

CalWatchdog Staff July 18, 2012

July 18, 2012 By Brian Calle Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., tells CalWatchDog.com’s Brian Calle that he intends to force a Senate vote that, if passed, would strip Pakistan of all U.S. foreign aid until Dr Shakil Afridi’s recent 33-year prison

10 California U.S. House races ranked ‘most competitive’ in country

CalWatchdog Staff July 18, 2012

July 18, 2012 By John Hrabe National Journal’s The Hotline released its first list of the most competitive U.S. House of Representatives races for the 2012 cycle. These are the 75 seats that National Journal considers “most likely to change hands in November.” Interesting

Anti-democracy bill guts California open-government laws

CalWatchdog Staff July 18, 2012

July 18, 2012 By Katy Grimes Buried deep within the new state budget lies a bill so evil, so corrupt and so illegal, a state agency is now being declared an official “enemy of the people” by weary taxpayers. The

Studies predict AB 32 will crash Calif. economy

CalWatchdog Staff July 17, 2012

July 17, 2012 By Dave Roberts Two new studies are predicting economic devastation in California as the myriad regulations and costs resulting from AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, take effect in the next eight years. The hit

California’s credit rating could get even worse

CalWatchdog Staff July 17, 2012

July 17, 2012 By Joseph Perkins California’s rock-bottom credit rating has been attributed in some quarters to the state’s most recent economic downturn, from which Gov. Jerry Brown said this past spring, “We are still recovering.” But a new study

Star-Studded Cal State fundraising galas net little profit

CalWatchdog Staff July 17, 2012

July 17, 2012 By John Hrabe When Grammy-award winning funk legends Earth, Wind and Fire performed at Cal State Fullerton’s 2011 Front and Center fundraising event for the Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation, Honda Center attendees were promised a “winter

Scandalous State Parks dept needs privatization

CalWatchdog Staff July 16, 2012

July 16, 2012 Katy Grimes: While the State Parks and Recreation department, under agency Director Ruth Coleman’s leadership, has been soliciting private donations to keep state parks open, top agency employees were bilking the state for vacation pay buyouts. Is it