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Back to homepageAssemblyman Gorell Set To Deploy
DEC. 13, 2010 By KATY GRIMES When Jeff Gorell decided more than two years ago to run for the state Assembly, he never dreamed that he would be deployed to the Middle East again, this time to Afghanistan. But not
Read MoreWill Brown Mess With Anti-Quota Law?
DEC. 10, 2010 K. LLOYD BILLINGSLEY A federal judge has upheld Proposition 209, the California law that bars racial, ethnic and gender preferences in state employment, education and contracting. The voter-approved measure has met legal challenges before but remains under
Read MorePPIC Poll's Loaded Pro-Tax Questions
DEC. 10, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The first rule of opinion polling is that if you are allowed to frame the questions, the results are just a predictable conclusion. Such is the case with a new poll by the Public
Read MoreDoes Budget Forum Portend Tax Hikes?
DEC. 9, 2010 By KATY GRIMES In what appeared to be an event designed to prepare California for tax increases, Governor-elect Jerry Brown held a well-attended budget forum on Wednesday to discuss California’s precarious state budget and extraordinary deficit. The
Read MoreForecast: CA Economic Lull to Continue
DEC. 8, 2010 By JOHN SEILER When Gov. Jerry Brown takes office in less than a month and deals with the state’s $25 billion budget deficit, he will get no more help from the state’s economy than he has from
Read MoreState Voters Don't Want Tax Hikes
DEC. 8, 2010 Rebuttal to Dan Walters By WAYNE LUSVARDI Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters is calling for a $20 billion tax increase to permanently plug the structural budget deficit in California on the grounds that it would have virtually
Read MoreStart Of A Post-Prop. 25 Assembly
DEC. 7, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Aside from the gaiety and festive mood during the swearing in of the new members of the Assembly on Monday, noticeably absent was acknowledgment of the gravity of California’s precarious financial state. Anyone observing
Read MoreBack Scratching At Stem Cell Agency
DEC. 5, 2010 By KATY GRIMES If anyone needed proof that the state’s $3-billion stem cell research agency is highly politicized, the Los Angeles Times reported this week that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger re-nominated Silicon Valley real estate investor Robert Klein
Read MoreCalifornia’s Crippling Brain Drain
DEC. 5, 2010 By LAER PEARCE Three articles caught my eye Sunday morning, and what a tale they tell! The first article said that Donald Lamm, 57, has announced his retirement as city manager of Westminster, an Orange County city
Read MoreSafety Officials Threaten Mutual Aid Cuts
DEC. 2, 2010 By KATY GRIMES A legislative committee that met this week to discuss whether budget cuts to California’s emergency management agencies would threaten mutual aid agreements, primarily reiterated the vastly divergent positions between agency directors who defended their
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