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Deadbeat California Needs a Payday Loan
JULY 15, 2011 By CHRISS STREET For the State of California and its counties and cities, tax collections tend to be lumpy during the year due to half of all income, corporate and other taxes being collected in the two months
Read MoreLeg Wants to Regulate Cough Syrup
Ali Meyer: It’s Lil Wayne’s drug of choice. Kids call it robo-tripping. Cough syrup isn’t just for colds anymore. State Sen. Joe Simitian is attempting to pass SB 514, a bill that would prohibit the sale of dextromethorphan (DXM), a
Read MoreSouth Calif. Shouts for Independence
John Seiler: Riverside County Supervisors Jeff Stone just gave up — at least for now — on his call for the secession of the new state of Southern California. Reported the Orange County Register, Stone “had proposed that 13 counties
Read MoreRent Seeking Coastal Commission
Lloyd Billingsley: California’s Coastal Commission does a fine job of preventing California’s working people from living near the Pacific Ocean but is now taking things to a new level. The CCC now wants to limit the amount of time coastal residents can
Read MoreFed Debt Default Imperils CA Budget
JULY 14, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Purgatory is a temporary place of agony, torment and suffering between heaven and hell. that is apparently where California’s state budget might be headed if the federal government, by failing to raise the federal
Read MorePension reformer files 3 state initiatives
JULY 13, 2011 Editor’s Note: The following is a statement from the California Center for Public Policy regarding three initiatives it filed with the state attorney general on Tuesday: The California Center for Public Policy submitted three initiatives for titles and
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