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CA health care to equalize the unequal
Jan. 16, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — Health care in California is about to get a makeover. But this makeover will not be improving the look of healthcare in the state, despite California’s state-of-the-art medical facilities and teaching hospitals.
Read MoreGov. Brown actually has some good ideas on improving universities
Jan. 16, 2013 By John Seiler I feel sorry for today’s college kids, who run up tens of thousands of dollars of debt only to graduate into a slow jobs market. Gov. Jerry Brown actually is advancing some decent ideas
Read MoreOther states getting rid of state income taxes
Jan. 16, 2013 By John Seiler California is going backward again. Our state income tax rate just jumped to 13.3 percent, by far the highest in the nation. By contrast, Nebraska is the latest state to consider getting rid of
Read MoreUC, CSU profs don’t grasp threat they face from online ed
Jan. 16, 2013 By Chris Reed Will 2013 be the year that unionized faculty members at UC, CSU and the state’s community colleges finally figure out the threat that online education poses to their futures? If it is not this
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CA online education has serious roadblocks
Jan. 15, 2013 By Katy Grimes Gov. Jerry Brown announced last week that he will be pushing online education, and made provisions for this in his 2013-14 budget proposal. The governor has already started lobbying the California State University and University of California regents to
Read MoreGovt. robs my paycheck even more
Jan. 15, 2013 By John Seiler This morning my first paycheck of the year was plunked into my bank account. The amount is sharply down from my Dec. 31 paycheck. The government robbed me again. This was part of the
Read MoreCaltrans project drags on, still no lanes
Jan. 15, 2013 By Katy Grimes For at least four to six months, the Capitol City Freeway (I-80) in Sacramento has been devoid of painted lanes. I took this photo last week, driving West on I-80, near P. Street, and
Read MoreGov. Brown mangles Aristotle on school funding
Jan. 15, 2013 By John Seiler Gov. Jerry Brown continues to misuse his fine Jesuit education. Explaining why he wants to shift money from middle-class to poor schools, he said: “Our future depends not on across-the-board funding, but in disproportionately
Read MorePlantronics sending employees to Mexico
Jan. 14, 2013 By John Seiler For 15 years I’ve used Plantronics’ great headsets with Dragon Naturallyspeaking and Skype. The company will keep about 500 jobs in Santa Cruz, but is sending 41 to Mexico, where 2,000 already are located:
Read MoreMcClintock: Fiscal Mess a Chance for Republicans to Lead
Jan. 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes We’ve heard so much about the nation’s “fiscal cliff” that we can’t even see the real fiscal mess in front of our faces: the approaching bankruptcy of our nation. So warned Rep. Tom McClintock, R-California,
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