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Bureaucratic Octopus Grabs Bay Area

JAN. 16, 2012 By DAVE ROBERTS Like a giant octopus grabbing helpless humans in a horror movie, a new bureaucracy is squeezing the Bay Area. One Bay Area is a plan to push Bay Area residents out of their cars

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Delta Council Meetings Flood State

JAN. 13, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Is the Delta Stewardship Council: A bunch of environmentalists appointed by politicians to produce endless numbers of useless plans to restore the Sacred Delta Ecology; A group of water agencies serving the thirsty cities

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A Stake Through the Heart of Rail

Katy Grimes: Apparently tired of all of the talk and stories around the capitol and throughout the state about the need to end the money-sucking High-Speed Rail system,  Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, plans on driving a wooden stake through

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Global Warming Proved a Fake

John Seiler: New research proves global warming a fake. If this state had any sense, it would repeal Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. It forces the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which

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Delta Science Remains in Question

JAN. 6, 2011 A federal judge opened up a can of whoop ass last fall on two government biologists, accusing them of mendacity in making their case for stricter environmental regulations in the Delta. This week, a report by a

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Supreme Court Rebukes Crony Capitalism

The following first appeared in City Journal California. JAN. 6, 2012 By STEVEN GREENHUT On December 29, 2011, the California Supreme Court handed down what the state’s urban redevelopment agencies (RDAs) and their supporters called a “worst of all worlds” ruling—first upholding

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Judge Cancels California Trade War

JAN. 6, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Trade war! The newspaper headlines last week read, “California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Blocked in Court.” It was a component of California’s AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which was scheduled

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Choo-Choo Boondoggle Runs Off Cliff

John Seiler: Ding-dong, the stupid bullet train is dead. It’s all over but the scrambling for a couple hundred million dollars of our tax money in various funds. The California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group yesterday issued a report condemning the

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Stadium Dreams and Sacramento Kings

For the past couple years we have watched our home town struggle to keep the Sacramento Kings basketball team in Sacramento. We have also observed the proposed attempt to build a new $400 million stadium for the team in downtown

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Markets ‘Crush’ Brown's Windmill Fantasy

JULY 29, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI With the swagger of a boxer before a match, on July 24 Gov. Jerry Brown said he would “crush” any efforts to block renewable energy projects in California. Brown apparently was referring to efforts

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