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When the media become the story
April 2, 2012 By Katy Grimes By now everyone in America knows the name of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year old tragically killed on February 26 by a Florida neighborhood watch captain. While the details of the case are still suspicious
Read MoreLive Like You’re A Liberal
MARCH 20, 2012 Songs and books have been written about the importance of living every day as if it will be your last. While a seemingly noble concept, living out each day indulging in special moments and treats instead of
Read MoreCA Politicians Gorging On Taxpayers
MAR. 13, 2012 Like a fat tick feasting on an unsuspecting dog, California government just grows and grows. While governments across the country are trimming budgets and tightening fiscal policies, California is doing exactly what Greece did and is borrowing
Read MoreCalifornia Remedy For Eco-Guilt
MAR. 5, 2012 While the Legislature has cavalierly passed global warming laws and companion legislation, they’ve done so without a clue about how the California Air Resources Board would actually achieve carbon emission reductions. It truly is a “if you
Read MoreState Edu-Welfare Expansion Plans
FEB. 21, 2012 More than 50 percent of California college students do not pay for school at the state’s public colleges and universities. Unfortunately, the dropout rate is also about 50 percent. This is because, along with all of the free
Read MoreGeneral Opposes Brown’s Nominee
FEB. 15, 2012 California National Guard Brigadier General Charlotte L. Miller has announced that she will voice her opposition to legislators today about Major General David Baldwin’s nomination to the top position of the state National Guard. Miller will testify
Read MoreBrown Right to Cut Women’s Commission
FEB. 6, 2012 Any time there is a chick-fest at the Capitol, eyes roll. Last week a legislative hearing about women wasn’t the usual love fest of everything woman. This whining group was lobbying to save a state commission from
Read MoreBored CA Billionaire Groups Merge
JAN. 28, 2012 “Think Forward and Long” or “Think Long and Forward California.” I suggest one of those as the new name for the merging government reform groups California Forward and Think Long. Because the ridiculousness of the name should be as
Read MoreDiversity Trumps Education In CA
Katy Grimes: Since when are race and ethnicity “front and center in the state’s education system”? Isn’t education supposed to be the goal? In an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee, Linda J. Wong, executive director of the Center for Urban Education at
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