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Back to homepageCongratulations to California Watch!
Anthony Pignataro: Today marks the one-year anniversary of California Watch, a non-profit journalism center (like us!) created publish kick-ass investigative reporting (like us!). “The mission here is to deliver rigorous, credible journalism that meets the highest possible standards and touches
Read MoreHelp From The Left On Pensions
Steven Greenhut: I just published a piece for the online version of City Journal regarding efforts by San Francisco progressives to rein in that city’s growing pension costs. As I explained: Fortunately, at least a few self-styled “progressive” urban Democrats
Read MoreGas Explosion Avoidable?
Katy Grimes: With the horrid news last night that an entire neighborhood in San Bruno exploded, I was reminded that two years ago, my husband and I could smell natural gas in our kitchen – for months. Everyone who visited
Read MoreGospel According to Stu
Anthony Pignataro: This morning I thought things were pretty bad in the region, state — hell, the whole world. Wildfires are devastating Colorado. Floods have wiped out much of Pakistan. In Washington, President Barack Obama is invoking the “state secrets”
Read MoreChelsea's Law Signed By Governor
Katy Grimes: Governor Schwarzenegger signed Chelsea’s Law today, making it an official California statute. The law is named for 17-year-old Chelsea King, who was murdered in San Diego in February. The new gives judges the option of sentencing someone to
Read MoreAB32ifornia
Katy Grimes has up a great new article demystifying Prop. 23, which would reverse AB 32 (much as the numbers are reversed). My prediction is that Prop. 23 will fail, something like 52-48. Its failure then will crash the economy. The
Read MoreOde To The Light Bulb
Katy Grimes: Say goodbye to the incandescent light bulb, designed by Thomas Edison in 1879 and perfected by General Electric in 1906. The Washington Post reported today, “The last major General Electric factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the
Read MoreUnion hack seeks OC supe seat
Steven Greenhut: Former Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, who recently got fired from his job at the OC district attorney’s office for alleged bad behavior, now wants to return to the Board of Supervisors. Granted, anything is better than letting him become
Read MoreACLU right to fight Orwellian preschool microchip
John Seiler: The ACLU is fighting an Orwellian scheme in Contra Costa to microchip preschoolers, as if they were dogs. You have to wonder what kind of people would enslave kids like that. Think back to your own childhood. Wasn’t
Read MoreO'Connell's Street Without Joy
Anthony Pignataro: I saw a lot of things driving into San Luis Obispo County this morning — rolling hills, wineries, a road sign indicating bear-crossing, a California Highway Patrolman rousting a homeless man from a freeway gully, the intersection where
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