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Katy Grimes: Demonstrating what difficult financial times California is experiencing, two UC Davis students have created a food pantry, handing out free food — for the needy college students. The UC Davis website announced on Wednesday, “Two UC Davis students
Read MoreBrown's Status-Quo Choices
JAN. 10, 2010 By JOHN SEILER “Personnel is policy” is a saying I heard often when I was a journalist in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s during the Reagan administration. The meaning was that, in large, complex modern organizations such
Read MoreConway's Discipline Problem
JAN. 7, 2011 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO State Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway has a real discipline problem. Not with her family, or her staff, but with her Republican caucus, and the ruthless arithmetic that governs it. Of the 80 members
Read MoreSenate Committee Rosters Late!
Katy Grimes: It’s January 7, 2011 and the Senate President Pro Tem just announced the legislative committee assignments. The Assembly committee assignments have been done since early December. As I shared this information with colleagues, everyone wanted to know what
Read MoreValley Legislators Bring New Verve
JAN. 6, 2011 By KATY GRIMES It only took one brief legislative session before newly elected Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) asked, “Are the people of California ready for a part time legislature? And we should meet every two years. We
Read More10 Things I Learned About California
Anthony Pignataro: The following is taken from the new Legislative Analyst’s Office report Cal Facts, which you can read for yourself here. Some of the report offers good — indeed, fantastic — news, while other portions are, well, pretty depressing:
Read MoreDems Split Over School Reform
JAN. 3, 2011 Democrats soon will have to decide whether they are the party of the idle rich – i.e., the party of retired government employees, many of whom spend 30 or more years receiving pensions that are the equivalent
Read MoreThe Gift After The Nunez Deal
Katy Grimes: Once again calling into question Governor Schwarzenegger’s strange agenda, today as part of his final hours in office, he commuted the manslaughter sentence of Esteban Núñez, the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez from 16 years to
Read MoreCrime Hikes Don't Cause Prison Crowds
DEC. 31, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI and RICH McKONE We have all seen the TV videos of the overcrowded conditions in California’s prisons. But, do these visuals reflect reality or are they highly managed Hollywood stage sets? If I told
Read MoreFederal Stimulus Is Govt Growth
Katy Grimes: Claiming to save or creating jobs for federal workers, at a cost of $94,000 per job, San Francisco officials are touting a building renovation project as a way to “stimulate” the cities’ economy. Mayor Gavin Newsom and U.S.
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