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Katy Grimes: ECOtality, a San Francisco green-tech company which had been on the verge of bankruptcy, “received roughly $115 million in two separate Energy Department grants to build 14,000 electric vehicle charging stations in 18 cities,” the Heritage Foundation reported today. “In its
Read MoreBrown’s Tax Canoe Headed For Water Fall
MARCH 23, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California Gov. Jerry Brown likens himself to a canoeist who paddles a little to the Left then a little to the Right. Lately, he has been paddling Left with labor unions to propose a
Read MoreBreton’s Embarrassing Suck Up
Steven Greenhut: No one would expect Sacramento Bee columnist Marcos Breton to take on a tough issue or defy conventional wisdom, but his March 21 bouquet to Mayor Kevin Johnson was uncomfortably embarrassing even by his standards. It’s rare to
Read More‘Unemployed’ Protected From Employers
Katy Grimes: The state is trying to prevent employers from legally looking into the employment backgrounds of job applicants. A bill claiming to “protect” the unemployed from discrimination by potential employers is making its way through the Legislature. The government
Read MoreCalPERS Funding Might Be Only 40 Percent Funded
John Seiler: As we’ve been warning here on CalWatchDog.com for more than two years now, CalPERS’ funding is way too low. I’ve written before how CalPERS might only be funded at the 55 percent level. It turns out that even
Read MoreL.A. Times’ Annoying Gatekeeping
John Seiler: I subscribe to the Los Angeles Times’ Sunday edition. So I get access to their online edition without paying more. But it’s annoying. I have virus programs that reglarly get rid of the cookies that retain my log-on
Read MoreCSU Christians Should Thank U.S. Supreme Court
John Seiler: The U.S. Supreme Court did Cal State Christian students a favor by turning down their lawsuit to get school money. This was sparked by Cal State’s “refusal to provide funding and other campus benefits to student groups that
Read More‘Anti-tax Demagogues’ Smashing CA?
John Seiler: Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton is worth reading because he’s almost always wrong. His latest column blames “anti-tax demagogues” for California’s disastrous condition. How about, instead, a string of incompetent governors who refused to discipline the Legislature’s
Read MoreProlonged Primary Good For GOP
Katy Grimes: There is much sermonizing and opining in newspapers over Republican politics. Most of it these days is full of mockery and disdain. “GOP inflicts its own wounds” is a common theme, as well as one headline that ran
Read MoreWho Subsidized the Electric Car?
John Seiler: A 2006 documentary is called, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” According to IMDB.com, it’s “A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the
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