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On fracking, will Govs. Brown and Cuomo heed Ed Rendell?
Jan. 21, 2013 By Chris Reed With the op-ed in last week’s Wall Street Journal about California’s enormous potential for a fracking-driven energy boom, it’s beginning to look like how Gov. Jerry Brown deals with the issue will be a
Read MoreBeing CalPERS means never having to say you’re sorry
Jan. 20, 2013 By Chris Reed So CalPERS is found to allow ridiculous, outrageous double-dipping by salaried employees that boosts their pay (and probably their pensions), and faces sharp criticism. So when the giant pension fund responds, does it do
Read MoreTax board attack on business: Do governor’s appointees just tune him out?
Commentary Jan. 18, 2013 By Chris Reed That California is extraordinarily hostile to business is accepted as a given by just about everyone who is an executive, manager or small-business owner in the state. But Democrats and some in the
Read MoreAB 32 has predicted effect on state manufacturing jobs
Jan. 19, 2013 By Chris Reed Trying to preserve and help create manufacturing jobs should be a primary goal of a party that bills itself as being about social justice. Manufacturing jobs often offer middle-class wages, but don’t require college
Read MoreAssemblyman Donnelly proposes school marshall plan
Jan. 19, 2013 By Katy Grimes I had a chance to talk with Assemblyman Tim Donnelly on Thursday, which is always interesting. He’s one of a handful of lawmakers who tells it like it is. And, then he puts his plans
Read MoreAgency lauds enormous fine on business
Jan. 18, 2013 By Steven Greenhut When you talk to business owners who are considering a move out of state, their main complaint is not typically California’s sky-high tax rates or the myriad regulations they face. Their main frustration is the
Read MoreOnly Silicon Valley scores high on Milken top cities list
Jan. 18, 2013 By John Seiler Silicon Valley scored the top spot on the Milken Institute’s “Best-Performing Cites 2012″ list, which looked at 200 metro areas. That’s a great accomplishment. But what about the rest of California? You have to drop
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Rail project begins grabbing CA farmers’ land
Jan. 18, 2013 By Katy Grimes Before high-speed rail planners can do anything with the Central Valley route, they are looking at an estimated $360 million to buy out 356 privately-owned land parcels along the route. According to a recent
Read MoreGerman mag laughs at crumbling CA
Jan. 18, 2013 By John Seiler The left-center, establishment magazine Der Spiegel is the Germany’s equivalent of Time magazine. They just delighted in making fun of the decomposition of America, especially in California. After recalling that the uniform hamburger was
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