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Premature View On Judge's 'Green' Ruling
FEB. 8, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Chriss Street’s “CA Judges Get Cold Feet on Warming” (Feb. 7) prematurely celebrates Judges Ernest H. Goldsmith for recently halting the rollout of California’s cap and trade program and Judge Oliver Wanger’s December 2010
Read MoreCuts Ahead For State's Many Regulations
Katy Grimes: California leads the country in regulatory laws. It’s nothing to be proud of. While other states mock California’s businesses representatives at national industry meetings for the crazy laws and regulations, California’s businesses owners and employees are paying the
Read MoreAnother View On Urban Consolidation
FEB. 7, 2011 Professor Fred Smoller, director of Brandman University’s public administration program in Irvine anda Calwatchdog advisory board member, rebuts this column by Steven Greenhut By FRED SMOLLER If Orange County were a city, it would be the third-largest
Read MoreCA Judges Get Cold Feet On Warming
FEB. 7, 2011 By CHRISS STREET California’s effort to save the Earth by punishing humans is taking a beating in the courts in California. Last week, San Francisco Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith squashed the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, meant
Read MorePension Initiative, Legislation Planned
FEB. 7, 2011 By DAVE ROBERTS With California potentially facing a $500 billion-plus unfunded pension liability, several pieces of legislation limiting retirement benefits will be considered in the current session and a more comprehensive reform initiative is being planned for
Read MoreAlt Energy Bills Will Inflate Electric Costs
FEB. 7, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California’s elite legislators and green power industrialists got together on Feb. 3 in Sacramento to push for new legislation to expand green power mandates from 20 percent to 33 percent by 2020, just as
Read MoreThe Real Meaning of the Constitution
By JOHN SEILER Writing recently in the Sacramento Bee, two professors mangled the actual meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Alan Gibson of Cal State Chico and James Read of the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University in Minnesota
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