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Subsidized home loans déjà vu

JUNE 18, 2010 By KATY GRIMES While listening to a housing and community development committee hearing this week,  a strange sense of déjà vu came over me. Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, presented SB 958, a bill designed to acquire

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Flag Day, OCGOP style

JUNE 17, 2010 By BRIAN CALLE An often forgotten holiday-of-sorts, Flag Day, is celebrated on June 14 and is the official day when Americans pay homage to the “Star-Spangled Banner.” One of the biggest celebrations of Old Glory in California

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DMV workers speak out

JUNE 17, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO For reasons that shouldn’t surprise anyone, employees of the California Department of Motor Vehicles have a lot to say. In May, when DMV officials began circulating a “Two Minute DMV Employee Survey,” 4,547 staffers

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Steinberg appeases educators

JUNE 17, 2010 By EVELYN STACEY On June 14, Senator Darrell Steinberg held a press conference at Edward Kemble Elementary, of Sacramento City Unified School District, to offer his support and solutions for schools in the midst of the budget

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Dems damn dams

JUNE 16, 2010 By KATY GRIMES With a win for PG&E but a loss for hydroelectric power plants in the state, the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications committee today killed part of a bill that would have added all hydroelectric

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AB32's echoes failed policy

JUNE 16, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Industrial policy is defined as government “policies that stimulate specific activities and promote structural change.” It’s intended to create businesses and jobs by government favoring one or more sectors of the economy through tax

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Nava's paycheck protection hypocrisy

JUNE 15, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI If Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, has his way, the days of corporate-funded political campaigns like failed Propositions 16, backed by PG&E to halt competition from municipal utilities, and 17, sponsored by Mercury Insurance

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Bye-bye budget deadline

June 15, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI Boiled down, the state government has one big job: levy taxes and spend the revenues.  But California’s statutory budget deadline passed again today with little notice from Sacramento lawmakers. The Legislature hasn’t met the

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Bill outlaws drug label fine print

JUNE 15, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, announced new legislation today that refutes recent decisions made by the state Board of Pharmacy, citing medication errors as the need. In 2007, Corbett authored SB472 authorizing the Board of

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FPPC investigates ‘No on 17’

JUNE 14, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI Proposition 17 may have been defeated at the polls, but that doesn’t mean the work is over for the campaign that successfully fought the measure on June 8. The Fair Political Practices Commission has

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