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Back to homepageFeds To Erode CA's Green-Power Edge
NOV. 8, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California’s often-myopic embrace of “green power” may soon come back to hurt the state. The Obama-administration-controlled Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is considering a new rule that may stifle any economic recovery in California
Read MoreCan California GOP Get Its Mojo Back?
NOV. 8, 2010 By JOHN SEILER The Nov. 2 election was almost a total wipe-out for California Republicans. They even lost the 28th state Senate District to incumbent Jenny Oropeza, who died two weeks earlier. At the state level, they
Read MoreHuber Balks At State Closing Youth Jail
NOV. 5, 2010 By KATY GRIMES The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation recently decided to close the state’s oldest youth correctional facility, which is also, apparently, the state’s most efficiently run facility. A joint legislative hearing on Nov. 3
Read MoreMostly Good News On CA Pensions
NOV. 5, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT Those of us who applauded the national backlash against the Obama administration’s big-government overreach have been straining to find good news in California, which defied the national trends by electing a slate of liberal
Read MoreCalifornia Was Impervious To Change
This article was first published in City Journal. NOV. 4, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT No state is in a bigger fiscal jam than California, with its structural budget deficit and massive unfunded liabilities for well-compensated public employees. The state’s business
Read MoreGerrymandering Muted CA Tea Party
NOV. 4, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The Tea Party movement couldn’t overcome the mathematics of political gerrymandering on Election Day Nov. 2 in California. All that the some 240 groups of the Tea Party movement in California had to show
Read MoreWhich Color, California?
NOV. 3, 2010 by KATY GRIMES If you just look the big offices in last night’s election — governor, attorney general, U.S. Senator, et al — then it looks like the state of California is just a giant solidly blue
Read MoreDems on Budgetary Hot Seat
NOV. 3, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Five of the nine ballot measures on Tuesday’s ballot dealt with taxes or the budget. The biggest one, Prop 25, replaced the Legislature’s required two-thirds vote of budget approval with a simple majority. It
Read MoreGive Us Liberty Or We'll Get Dems
This article first appeared in the Orange County Register. NOV. 3, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT President Barack Obama saved the Republican Party from itself. In a two-party system, when one party makes a mess of things, the only choice is
Read MoreDeparted Californians Swing Election
NOV. 2, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Given that a couple of million Californians have left the state in the past 20 years, most of them Republicans, it’s surprising that Democrats didn’t do better. Jerry Brown, as I write, won by
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