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Steven Greenhut: Public employee unions have been blaming conservative reformers for a couple of tragic suicides, which is reprehensible. A Costa Mesa employee killed himself and the union official blamed layoffs and said: “You can’t do this so fast and
Read MoreCorrea Wants To Kill 3rd Parties
Steven Greenhut: Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, has introduced a bill that has passed out of committee that will effectively put the final nail in the coffin of third parties. SB205 bans anyone from paying people to ask others to
Read MoreDispense With the GOP Convention
John Seiler: Here’s one way Republicans really can help California: Cancel their convention this weekend. Save the money and invest it in local businesses. Or just go to local bars in their home districts and get drunk. The entire California
Read MoreGloves Off, Republicans Debate
Katy Grimes: With California Republican legislators currently at odds over whether or not to support putting Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax extensions on the ballot, it was Republican versus Republican yesterday at a lunchtime debate, over party philosophy and strategy. And
Read MoreCalifornia Budget Gap Grows
John Seiler: Wayne Lusvardi contributed the following: Where’s Waldo in the Western U.S.? Take a look at the bar graph below, excerpted from the San Francisco Federal Reserve website. The graph shows in the blue bars the percent of budget
Read MoreNPR Losing Federal Funds
Katy Grimes: Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to deny $422 million in future federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio. As part of the GOP plan to cut federal spending, federal subsidies
Read MoreField Poll: Cut Pensions
John Seiler: A new Field Poll shows that Californians back unions — but want pensions rolled back. As often is the case, the results are contradictory. It’s immense union power that, over the past 12 years, spiked pensions to unsustainable
Read MoreGOP Siding With Big Government
Steven Greenhut: The vote is still open in the Assembly on legislation to end redevelopment, with most Republicans voting to save these big-government, corporate-welfare-doling, eminent-domain-abusing agencies. The bill is now four votes short of passage, so thank the likes of
Read MoreA Texas-Sized Move for Carl's Jr.?
Katy Grimes: If everything really is bigger in Texas, then the departure of the Carl’s Jr. headquarters from California could be big, big, big news. Today, Republican Assemblyman Dan Logue hosted another of his monthly Economic Recovery Group lunch meetings
Read MoreFed Squanders Peace Dividend
John Seiler: This column by Chriss Street is not about California per se, but it’s an interesting read about federal monetary policy — something that always affects our state. BY CHRISS STREET The U.S. Federal Reserve Board’s second round of
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