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SD's Chance to Erase Pension Abuse Image
APRIL 5, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT The city of San Diego has long been the poster child for pension abuse, but now it has a chance to become the poster child for pension reform thanks to a new ballot measure
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Recall May Be GOP's Only Power Left
APRIL 5, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Say what you will about the defects of the two-party system. At least it’s not a one-party system nationally. But California increasingly is a one-party state, with Democrats dominant and Republicans down and out.
Read MoreVoluntary Tax Contributions Coming
Katy Grimes: For anyone interested in voluntarily paying more in taxes to the state of California, one California Senator wants to make it easy for you to accomplish this noble gesture. “A measure to close California’s budget deficit,” was presented by
Read MoreJudiciary OKs Dependency Bill
Steven Greenhut: Most of the attention at today’s Assembly Judiciary Committee was focused on the latest anti-immigration nonsense from Republican big-government types (AB26), but some significant business actually took place in the committee. Assemblyman Mike Feuer’s bill to open dependency
Read MoreNo Shortage of Water Mythmakers
APRIL 5, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Does California have enough water? Peter H. Gleick of the Pacific Institute in Oakland thinks not. He wrote yesterday in “Myths of California water shortfalls” that it is a myth there is enough water
Read MoreNew Warming Bill Would Hit CA Farmers
APRIL 5, 2011 By KATY GRIMES California farmers soon could face strict compliance with AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Using the controversial argument that climate change will have a substantial impact on agriculture in California, SB
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What Happened to CA Armageddon?
John Seiler: I haven’t noticed the earth quaking. Or thousands of Californians being washed out to drown in the Pacific Ocean, the way Japanese were after their recent earthquake-tsunami. But just a couple of weeks ago Gov. Jerry Brown was
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