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Katy Grimes: Defying its own push to increase the use of downtown restaurants, entertainment venues, as well as the K Street Mall and the nearly empty downtown shopping mall, the Sacramento City Council has just passed a new “crash tax.”
Read MoreObama's TSA Molestation Joke
John Seiler: Writing here yesterday, I insisted that, in his State of the Union Address, President Obama must order the end of the TSA molestations of air travelers, especially of grandmothers and young girls. Instead, he joked about it! Watch
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Obama Must End TSA Molestations
John Seiler: There’s one thing I want to hear from President Obama tonight in his State of the Union Address: That he is ending the molestation of airline passengers by the perverts at the Transportation Security Administration. Under edicts imposed
Read MoreIn Memory Of A Budget
Katy Grimes: Since the new Legislature received Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal on January 10, many have been expecting legislators to start floating their own bills challenging or supporting Brown’s budget cuts and tax extensions. Instead, both houses of the
Read MoreCalifornia Should Declare Bankruptcy
John Seiler: If you’ve been reading CalWatchDog.com, you know I’ve written in favor of the state declaring bankruptcy. As I wrote back in April: There are couple of things to note here. First, for a family of four, $7,220 is
Read MoreVallejo Is Dying
John Seiler: Newsweek listed the Top 10 cities in America that are dying. No. 1 is New Orleans, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. No. 2 is Vallejo, which has suffered more than any other city from the Schwarzenegger Decade
Read MoreA Redevelopment Hush
Katy Grimes: There’s mostly silence coming from Republican legislators on Gov. Brown’s budget plan proposal for for eliminating redevelopment agencies. The plan would take $1.7 billion dollars from city redevelopment agencies, and redirect the money to school districts, counties and
Read MoreBrown Reaffirms Fiscal Emergency
Steven Greenhut: There’s a good reason the state declares a state of emergency during mudslides, fires and other natural disasters — to reduce the number of regulations in place as clean-up efforts proceed, and also to unleash federal funds for
Read MoreBuy On Rumor, Sell On News
Wayne Lusvardi: In California, polls show that new Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to extend $5.9 billion in “temporary” income, sales, vehicular license fees, and tobacco taxes instead of letting them expire has an unlikely chance of passage in June 2011. The
Read MoreChina and California
John Seiler: Most Californians have become insular. Our state’s problems have made them fail to look beyond our borders. Maybe Chinese President Hu’s visit with President Obama will wake people up. During Gov. Jerry Brown’s first term in office, beginning
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