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Adult Beverage Hypocracy
Katy Grimes: While one group is pushing to expand and increase wine and liquor tastings in public places, people are getting pulled over in DUI checkpoints on a Friday evening. Yesterday, the Assembly voted to pass a bill extending tasting
Read MoreArnold's enviro scam
John Seiler: I’ve always thought Gov. Arnold’s embrace of extreme environmentalism, such as AB 32, was a scam to make him look good. Now we’re finally getting some facts to confirm that. From the L.A. Times: Reporting from Sacramento —
Read MoreArnold should stay in Asia
John Seiler: Arnold’s on a six-day junket to Asia. He should stay there. He’s done enough damage to California. His absence delays a deal on the budget — which already is 10 weeks late — but so what. We’re better
Read MoreBankruptcy Bill Violates Rule
Katy Grimes: News comes from the Senate today that AB 155, the union-backed bill preventing cities and municipalities from filing for bankruptcy protection – has been held in Senate Appropriations after Vice Chairman Sen. Roy Ashburn called the Democrats out on
Read MoreBudget Vote Imminent?
Katy Grimes and Anthony Pignataro: Yeah, right. Though you wouldn’t believe how tense the Capitol is right now. Both parties in the Assembly went into caucus today, only to emerge more than an hour later looking grave. Tempers are short,
Read MoreState Paying for Bullet Train Station
AUG. 27, 2010 By KATY GRIMES A bill designed to formally authorize the proposed bullet train system expenditures is only now working through the legislature even though the project has been rolling ahead at full throttle. Though a glance at the
Read MoreLittle Hoover talks Big Water
Anthony Pignataro: Yesterday the Little Hoover Commission released a new report titled Managing for Change: Modernizing California’s Water Governance. Like all government watchdog reports, a lot of scathing findings and sound recommendations lay behind that jargon-clogged title. Well, I’m assuming
Read MoreProper Business Attire Under The Dome
Katy Grimes: Earlier this week, Assembly sergeants-at-arms began notifying women that a new policy now requires them to wear a jacket or sweater to enter the chamber. Apparently not all of the gals around the Capitol have been adhering to decent
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