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Will School Block Grants Replace Earmarks?
MAY 3, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI In a February report, the Legislative Analyst’s Office charged that “virtually every aspect of K-14 (public school) mandate finance system is broken.” The report was titled, “Education Mandates: Overhauling a Broken System.” The LAO report
Read MoreAir Quality Bill Stinks Up Capitol Hearing
MAY 3, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Get ready for some really costly and restrictive environmental bills being passed through the Legislature with an anti-business-as-usual attitude, despite the foul economy in the state. Shooting out of the Senate Environmental Quality committee
Read MoreBogus Redevelopment Reform
Steven Greenhut: Any redevelopment reform proposed by the California Redevelopment Association has to be bogus. Recall that the CRA’s last eminent domain reform initiative did essentially nothing to stop eminent domain abuse. The CRA is all about protecting this form
Read MoreSenate Passes Corrections Contracts
Katy Grimes: Described as “Short Time Gain – Long Time Pain” by Republican Sen. Bob Dutton, the six union deals between the Governor and correctional officers failed to garner the necessary Senate votes for ratification today in the Senate –
Read MoreSteinberg: Raise Taxes For Dems!
Steven Greenhut: California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, last week called on the state government to raise taxes — but only in the Democratic districts where voters have been clamoring for tax hikes as a way to fix
Read MoreThe Economist Mag Assaults Prop. 13
MAY 2, 2011 By K. Lloyd Billingsley The surfer, posed by what appears to be the Pacific Ocean, wears star-spangled trunks and his surfboard bears a peace sign, a highway placard bearing the number 13 and a banner reading “Direct
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