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Greece "Junk" Credit Rating
Katy Grimes: Despite receiving a record bail out from the European Union, Greece just lost its last investment grade rating as Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s biggest bond rating agencies, downgraded the country’s debt one notch to “junk,” Bloomberg Business
Read MoreBusiness Meets The Legislature
JAN. 17, 2011 By KATY GRIMES The era of big-government Republican legislators appears to be changing. In the November election, California voters elected several political novices to represent them at the state Capitol, and it appears that this happened for
Read MoreSounds Like California
John Seiler: Wikileaks’ recent release of a cable from the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia supposedly led to the downfall of that country’s government. The cable actually looks like it could have been written about the government of another state enjoying
Read MoreWalters: California Stagnating
John Seiler: CalWatchDog.com has been online now a little more than a year. If there’s one theme we’ve had, it’s that California is stagnating due to too much regulation, taxation and general foolishness by an out-of-touch government. For example, here’s
Read MoreThe Loss of Mourning
Katy Grimes: Watching the “memorial” of the Tucson shooting victims killed by Jared Loughner earlier this week was a flashback to the Wellstone Memorial – an event supposed to be somber and sad, but ended up getting hijacked by Democratic
Read MoreWill State Pay For Special Elections?
JAN 14, 2011 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO The best current estimated cost for Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed special election on whether to extend tax hikes another five years is roughly $70 million. Given recent history, counties across the state will have
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