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Steven Greenhut: Any redevelopment reform proposed by the California Redevelopment Association has to be bogus. Recall that the CRA’s last eminent domain reform initiative did essentially nothing to stop eminent domain abuse. The CRA is all about protecting this form
Read MoreSenate Passes Corrections Contracts
Katy Grimes: Described as “Short Time Gain – Long Time Pain” by Republican Sen. Bob Dutton, the six union deals between the Governor and correctional officers failed to garner the necessary Senate votes for ratification today in the Senate –
Read MoreSteinberg: Raise Taxes For Dems!
Steven Greenhut: California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, last week called on the state government to raise taxes — but only in the Democratic districts where voters have been clamoring for tax hikes as a way to fix
Read MoreLockyer: 'We're coming after you!'
John Seiler: In person, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer is a mild-mannered fellow, whom I’ve enjoyed meeting with several times. But his class-warfare rhetoric makes him sound like a California Pol Pot. Here’s what he just said at this weekend’s California
Read MoreDiFi Misleads Dem Convention
John Seiler: At this weekend’s convention in Sacramento of the California Democratic Party, Sen. Dianne Feinstein attacked Republicans and Tea Partiers for wrecking the country. True enough, Republicans bear much of the blame. They held the presidency from 2001 to
Read MoreCan Business Recovery Be Legislated?
Katy Grimes: It’s so exciting that fast food giant Carl’s Jr. plans on opening 300 new fast food restaurants! Wow. That’s such good news for the economy. Unfortunately for California, the restaurants will be opening in Texas. Carl’s Jr. CEO Andy Pudzner
Read MoreMono County: 59% Vacancy Rate
John Seiler: Here’s what’s really going on in California — while Gov. Jerry Brown, the Democrats in the Legislature and the government-worker unions are plotting how to tax us more to preserve plush union pensions. Reports Yahoo Finance: American Ghost
Read MoreStarve GOP Districts Of State Funds
Katy Grimes: In a room full of Capitol journalists at the Sacramento Press Club lunch meeting Wednesday, Democratic Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg began down a road that should have frozen the insides of everyone in attendance. But even
Read MoreMass. Dems Might Curb Union Power
John Seiler: When Republicans in Wisconsin and Ohio took away some collective-bargaining rights of government-worker unions, we were warned that freedom was over; that the workers’ democratic rights had been suppressed. Supportive demonstrations were held all across the country, including
Read MoreRail Authority "Ineffective"
Katy Grimes: When a lawmaker admits that an agency created from a bond measure that he supported and help get passed has grown ineffective and needs a serious makeover, it is evident that there is a problem. Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal
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