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Back to homepageGovernor adopts budget realism
MAY 14, 2010 By JOHN SEILER The party’s over. That’s the message from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s austere May Revise, released today, of his budget for fiscal 2010-11, which begins on July 1. It calls for cutting $3 billion from state
Read MoreDour governor pitches deep cuts
MAY 14, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT At a press conference at 1 pm today, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a May budget revise that attempts to close a nearly $20 billion budget gap by slashing state welfare programs while maintaining current-year
Read MoreStates' rights revival in CA?
MAY 14, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Political waters are boiling all across America, including California. One of the areas this is happening is the Tenth Amendment Movement, which takes seriously the last of the Bill of Rights, which reads: “The powers
Read MoreWorkers' Comp officials reprimanded
MAY 13, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Mention workers’ compensation reform in a crowd, and eyes immediately glaze over. It can be a droll subject – unless you have skin in the game. The Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee held
Read MoreGOP rebuts Dems' tax roadshow
MAY 12, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT At a press conference at the Capitol this morning marking a 50-day countdown until the end of the state’s fiscal year, Assembly Republicans made it clear that they will not accept any new taxes
Read MoreDuvall still giving out money
MAY 11, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO For reasons he didn’t really want to discuss, former Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall of Yorba Linda still has about $72,000 in campaign money, according to the most recent reports on file with the California
Read MoreCA Forward's insomnia cure
MAY 11, 2010 By KATY GRIMES In a hearing yesterday that could have helped anyone with an insomnia problem, California Forward, the budget reform group proposing a simple majority vote by the Legislature instead of the two-thirds currently required, presented
Read MoreAudits target agency nepotism
MAY 6, 2010 By KATY GRIMES A backlog of 12,000 reports of alleged teacher misconduct in 2009, together with a nepotism problem within the Commission on Teacher Credentialing raised the red flag to high alert. Four state agencies received news
Read MoreOpen gun carry under fire
MAY 5, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Gun rights activists have stirred up controversy in recent months by carrying, and displaying, firearms in the open in California, including in restaurants and coffee shops. This has led to a movement to ban
Read MoreLegislators push for higher taxes
MAY 5, 2010 By MICHAEL BARNHART and BRYAN LEONARD Pity California taxpayers. They are afflicted with the nation’s highest sales and gasoline taxes, and a particularly punishing income tax. And still “progressives” both inside and outside the state claim that
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