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Back to homepageGOP 'manifesto' trumps unions
JUNE 14, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT A political candidate can take on the public-employee unions in a nasty street rumble and emerge bloodied but victorious. That’s the message from Tuesday’s election to fill a board of supervisors seat in Orange
Read MoreBill to ban employer FICO use
JUNE 11, 2010 By KATY GRIMES “Should employers be banned from using information found in consumer credit reports to help make employment decisions?” was the key question in the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations on Wednesday. In what
Read MoreBill targets underground economy
JUNE 10, 2010 By KATY GRIMES A bi-partisan bill is moving through the Legislature that proposes to punish an employer with a stiff penalty if it does not pay minimum wage. The proposed penalty increases the current damages to two
Read MoreMoney wins in CA election
JUNE 9, 2010 By JOHN SEILER The entry level of personal worth for winning the GOP nomination for governor now is $1 billion. That’s the net worth of Meg Whitman, who won yesterday’s primary nomination for governor. That’s up from the more
Read MorePG&E Buying Spot In State Constitution
JUNE 7, 2010 By KATY GRIMES With PG&E spending $43 million on radio, television and print ads promoting Proposition 16, all-the-while insisting that the funding comes only from the shareholders and not ratepayers, one cannot help but ask that if
Read MoreCal recovery lags USA
JUNE 7, 2010 By JOHN SEILER California’s economy is recovering, but more slowly than that of the rest of America, according to the June 3 forecast of the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, which I
Read More'No on 17' funding questioned
JUNE 4, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI Both proponents and opponents of controversial Proposition 17 are spending the eleventh hour before the June 8 primary lobbing accusations at each other from the trenches. Prop. 17 would modify a previous law enacted
Read MoreNanny May I?
JUNE 3, 2010 By KATY GRIMES The proper role of government is on the minds of many people in the state, particularly with a record budget crisis in California. But legislators continue to offer massive quantities of legislation that meddle
Read MoreCA legislators rebuke Texas textbooks
JUNE 2, 2010 By DAVE ROBERTS César Chavez can rest safe in the knowledge that his place among the pantheon of American giants in history books will be preserved in California. The state Senate last week approved by a 25-5
Read MoreBill makes ex-cons a protected class
JUNE 1, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI If you don’t hire ‘em, you might join ‘em, if a new bill proposed by Assemblyman Steven Bradford, D – Inglewood, becomes law. The Assemblyman is sponsoring AB2727 — otherwise known as the “Re-entry
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