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First 5 funding up in smoke
John Seiler: Back in 1998, actor Rob “Meathead” Reiner tricked voters into passing Prop. 10, the California First 5 initiative, which jacked up cigarette taxes 50 cents a pack to pay for programs that took over from parents the privilege
Read More$50 Million-A-Day Budget Talks
Katy Grimes: Sen. Bob Dutton showed an appropriate level of impatience with the continuing spending bills in the Budget Conference committee today. He unleashed a polite barrage about the state continuing to spend excessively, even in a deficit, as well as
Read MoreOT bill could hurt farm workers
JULY 7, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Agriculture workers aren’t the only employees exempted from the state’s overtime laws, however, SB1121, authored by Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, would remove the overtime exemption for agricultural employees only. “SB 1121 would change the
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Falling down
John Seiler: What if the whole thing falls down? The economy, I mean: pensions suffer even bigger deficits, causing municipal bonds to collapse, making unemployment even worse, causing a surge in the need for social services, as the the dollar’s
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Expropriate PG&E
By John Seiler: The Marxists have a saying, “Expropriate the expropriators.” That’s what we should do to PG&E. It’s an expropriator. It wants to expropriate your job and mine. Because it has come out against Prop. 23, which would effectively
Read MoreWhitman 'mistreats' workers
Katy Grimes: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown’s campaign sent out an email blast today with more accusations of Republican candidate Meg Whitman’s alleged temper and accusations of “assault.” News broke last month about Whitman physically pushing a staff handler, when
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