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Back to homepageSenate Drowns Steinberg Water Bill
MAY 5, 2011 By KATY GRIMES In a highly unusual turn of events, a high-profile water bill authored by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, was drowned by his own party. Colleagues figured out that the bill would move
Read MoreCEOs Rank CA Worst State for Business
MAY 5, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Once again, California garners the booby prize for business climate: For the seventh year in a row, CEOs rate Texas as the #1 state in which to do business and California as the worst. North Carolina maintained its #2 rank,
Read MoreCA Bond Payments Crowd Other Spending
MAY 5, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A recent Internet headline read: “California bond sold for 9 percent – NOT a Typo!” The inference was that this could be the harbinger of much prophesized skyrocketing bond interest rates and municipal bond
Read MoreNew Internet Tax Looting Scheme
MAY 5, 2011 By JOHN SEILER It just never stops. Never, never, never. The attacks on California taxpayers by the Looting Government Class (LGC) just keep coming. The latest: SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – With California deep in debt, a controversial plan
Read MoreKings Wars Could Slam CA Taxpayers
MAY 4, 2011 By JOHN SEILER For now it looks like the Kings professional basketball team will keep dribbling in Sacramento. Just as the team seemed ready to decamp to Anaheim, Sacramento threw a three-pointer and kept the team. The
Read MoreWill School Block Grants Replace Earmarks?
MAY 3, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI In a February report, the Legislative Analyst’s Office charged that “virtually every aspect of K-14 (public school) mandate finance system is broken.” The report was titled, “Education Mandates: Overhauling a Broken System.” The LAO report
Read MoreAir Quality Bill Stinks Up Capitol Hearing
MAY 3, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Get ready for some really costly and restrictive environmental bills being passed through the Legislature with an anti-business-as-usual attitude, despite the foul economy in the state. Shooting out of the Senate Environmental Quality committee
Read MoreThe Economist Mag Assaults Prop. 13
MAY 2, 2011 By K. Lloyd Billingsley The surfer, posed by what appears to be the Pacific Ocean, wears star-spangled trunks and his surfboard bears a peace sign, a highway placard bearing the number 13 and a banner reading “Direct
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CA Dems Hold Looters' Convention
MAY 2, 2011 By JOHN SEILER H.L. Mencken called elections “advanced auctions of stolen goods.” That certainly was true of last November’s election, in which Gov. Jerry Brown and other Democrats auctioned off California taxpayers’ money to the public-employee unions.
Read MoreSB 34: Creature Crawls from Delta Lagoon
APRIL 29, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A bureaucratic creature has crawled from murky waters of the Sacramento Delta. What could be worse? The pork-laden $11 billion proposed California Water Bond, on the ballot in 2012, that does not include any new
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