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Please check out CalWatchDog.com’s Special Series on Municipal Bankruptcy. More to come. So far: Broke municipalities look to bankruptcy option Bankruptcy didn’t make the sky fall in Orange County Local governments face bankruptcy quandary Bond holders seek governmental Ttansparency California
Read MoreCampaign 2012 war on women
April 12, 2012 By Katy Grimes Since when is being a stay-at-home-mom considered one of the many modern crimes against women? Since the progressive left decided the latest campaign strategy would be to wage war on conservative women. Don’t let anyone
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Left wing challenges Jerry Brown’s tax boost
April 12, 2012 By John Seiler Our friend Ben Boychuk of City Journal California writes an incisive analysis of how Gov. Jerry Brown’s $9 billion tax increase initiative is being challenged — by a $10 billion tax increase from his
Read MoreSen. Feinstein cheers Gov. Brown’s High-Speed Rail plan
April 12, 2012 By Brian Calle It does not come as a big surprise that Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein supports Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised plan for the boondoggle High-Speed Rail project that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars. What
Read MoreDo ‘strong men’ vote conservative?
April 12, 2012 By John Seiler According to the Telegraph, a Brit paper, a survey shows that “strong men” vote conservative. Such men… “tend to build up their upper body strength and become subconsciously obsessed with their fighting ability, they
Read MoreController: California revenues lag
April 11, 2012 By John Seiler Rosy Scenario just checked out of the Hotel California. As Chriss Street reported here a month ago, California’s revenues have been plunging. Controller John Chiang just confirmed that in this announcement from his office:
Read MoreEnviros Force Lucasfilm out of Marin
April 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes After 25 years of fighting with Marin County residents, film maker George Lucas and Lucasfilm, the brains and talent behind the Star Wars movies, took Marin County by surprise when his company announced that it
Read MoreLegislative swooning over CA coastal guru
April 9, 2012 By Katy Grimes In the California Assembly and Senate Monday, one would have thought that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had just died and was being eulogized. But the ghost of FDR was not present. Instead, Peter Douglas of the
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L.A. on a deathride to bankruptcy
April 9, 2012 By John Seiler City of Angels. City of Dreams. City with a “Holy wood.” City that’s Tinseltown. City driving off a bankruptcy cliff. Los Angeles and the state of California are racing in a Chicken Run like
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