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John Seiler: Remember how Arnold promised to get rid of the long lines and incompetence at the DMV? For a while, things got better. Then he went on his “Terminate California” kick, spending wildly and imposing AB 32. Here’s the
Read MoreSenate Committee Rosters Late!
Katy Grimes: It’s January 7, 2011 and the Senate President Pro Tem just announced the legislative committee assignments. The Assembly committee assignments have been done since early December. As I shared this information with colleagues, everyone wanted to know what
Read MoreNew Mexico Drops "Green" Regs
Katy Grimes: New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has kept an important campaign promise to drop restrictive new regulations forcing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as other controversial rules passed in the final days of the previous administration. The
Read MoreLegislating To Giants
Katy Grimes: This morning, the Assembly took time to honor the San Francisco Giants. A very excited Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, gave a rousing speech wearing a Giants shirt and hat. That’s nice. Yet the Giants have been honored
Read MoreBill Honig's Back!
Anthony Pignataro: That’s right, folks: Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown has appointed one Louis “Bill” Honig to the California State Board of Education. Honig, for those of you not old enough to remember 1993, spent a decade as state Superintendent
Read More10 Things I Learned About California
Anthony Pignataro: The following is taken from the new Legislative Analyst’s Office report Cal Facts, which you can read for yourself here. Some of the report offers good — indeed, fantastic — news, while other portions are, well, pretty depressing:
Read MoreHypocrite Arnold's Gas Guzzler
John Seiler: A day after his seven-year tenure wrecking California, Arnold got a parking ticket. The link has pictures. Guess what he was driving? Surely it must be a Tesla electric car, which he touted earlier this year when it
Read MoreThe Nunez-Schwarzenegger Legacy
Katy Grimes: Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger might finally have a legacy, but it isn’t what he had hoped for and forever links him with nefarious, notorious politicians. Esteban Nunez, the privileged son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, may have
Read MoreConditions vs. Problems
Steven Greenhut: There’s no doubt that Gov.-elect Jerry Brown’s inaugural speech Monday hit the right notes, as the Bee’s Dan Walters put it. I was in the press gallery and found the talk to be funny and charming. He offered
Read MoreCal Supreme Court Tyranny
John Seiler: Recall, anyone? Not of Gov. Jerry Brown — yet. But of the five California Supreme Court “justices” who voted to revoke your Fourth Amendment right “against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Absurdly, the court ruled that, if cops arrest
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