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Pension-Spiking Spitzer Sees Light!
Steven Greenhut: Former Assemblyman Todd Spitzer has been a full-on tool of the public employee unions throughout his career, but after being fired from the district attorney’s office he is now seeking to be county supervisor. Spitzer wants it both
Read MoreRestored Gann Limit Would Balance Budget
MARCH 25, 2011 By JOHN SEILER The problem with Calfornia’s $25 billion budget deficit is that state spending gushed upward in three wild splurges. I’ll list them here. As I do, recall if your pay was increased each year anything
Read MoreRepublicans Finally Get Some Sense
John Seiler: Republicans finally are wising up to a strategy I suggested to them long ago: Use the initiative process much more often to protect taxpayers and businesses and jobs. The GOP’s minority status means they have almost no influence
Read MoreInvestment Tax Credit Could Boost CA Jobs
MARCH 25, 2011 By KATY GRIMES One senator is trying to offer California manufacturers a break to help stimulate business growth. But even his modest sales-tax credit was met with resistance in a hearing at the Capitol on Wednesday. Inland
Read MoreARB Denying Injunction?
Katy Grimes: California air regulators have been ordered to conduct a new environmental review before a judge will approve the cap-and-trade pollution program, with a final order expected in about a week, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. A rational,
Read MoreMansoor Siding With Big Government
MARCH 24, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT I just heard from Assemblyman Allan Mansoor’s office and learned that the Costa Mesa Republican, who had been on the fence regarding ending redevelopment agencies, decided to side with big government and the status
Read MoreProperty Rights Attorney Trager Dies
MARCH 24, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT I was stunned to learn this week that my good friend, Susan M. Trager, a Laguna Beach resident, passed away from cancer at age 63. Susan was one of the top water and environmental
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