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California Jobs Gap Grows
Jan. 25, 2010 By JOHN SEILER In an earlier article I introduced a new measure of economic vitality: the Jobs Gap. It measures the difference between unemployment in California and the rest of the country. It thus factors out the
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AB 32- Global Warming Poll Released Today
A very interesting non-partisan poll commissioned by the independent AB 32 Implementation Group was released today, finding that the highly charged issues of Cap and Trade and global warming, do not have the purported support when California voters are presented
Read MoreThis just in: We're more doomed than ever
OK, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been out of the state since Wednesday, passing the hat in Washington D.C. with Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. Abel Maldonado, Arnold’s pick for lieutenant governor, has yet to
Read MoreFirst Massachusetts, then Illinois
Well, if you get the public angry enough, it’s possible to get some electoral change, as we see from the dramatic Senate victory of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts. No, the addition of one Republican senator — and especially one
Read MoreCalPERS blames rating agencies
Jan. 21, 2010 By TROY ANDERSON In recent congressional hearings, inaccurate credit ratings were described as a major contributing factor in bringing the nation to the “brink of financial collapse.” In September, California Attorney General Jerry Brown opened an investigation
Read MoreHe is the king!
Paul Goldenberg is the closest thing the small Orange County city of La Habra has to royalty. Anyone who grew up in Southern California between the 1970s and today knows him, maybe not by his full name, but by the
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