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Back to homepageA New Portrait for Jerry Brown?
Laura Sucheski: Here’s a question that’s surely been on the minds of California political history geeks everywhere. If Jerry Brown wins the governor’s race, it will be his second time holding the office. And just like the President of the
Read MoreHow To Lose $17 Million
Katy Grimes: The case of the missing payroll money would be an easy scheme if it was not true. “$17 million that Sacramento County entrusted to a payroll services company is missing,” according to a report in The Sacramento Bee
Read MoreArnold at Bohemian Grove
John Seiler: Tonight, July 30, Gov. Arnold gave a speech before the supersecret, elitist, cultish Bohemian Grove club. Reports the Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to address a throng of rich and powerful men on Friday
Read More1/5 of Californians admit they're crazy
John Seiler: News item: Almost 5 million California adults say they could use help with a mental or emotional problem, according to a survey released Wednesday by researchers at UCLA. About 1 million of them meet the criteria for “serious
Read MoreDNA tests gone wild
JULY 26, 2010 The University of California, Berkeley, has inadvertently stepped into a brewing ethical debate over genetic testing and medical privacy after it asked the incoming freshman class to submit to the campus cotton swabs with DNA samples from
Read MoreMore corrupt deputies
Steven Greenhut: Here’s an amazing LA Times story about the well-pensioned highly paid “professionals” at the LA sheriff’s department who “used fake scanner codes to avoid making their appointed rounds at the Men’s Central Jail to check on inmate welfare
Read MoreCanada vs. California
John Seiler: Dan Walters had a good column comparing California to Canada. Both have similar-sized populations and economies. Yet, Canada has mostly avoided the economic calamity of recent years, whereas California has suffered heavily. Dan: Canadian bankers eschewed massive involvement
Read MoreArizona whites trust Latinos with concealed guns!
John Seiler: The caricature of Arizona presented by immigration activists, California politicians, and the Obama administration is that Arizona is intolerant toward Latinos. The new immigration law in AZ supposedly violates Latinos’ rights, and was imposed by the whites who
Read MoreSeen at the Capitol…
Katy Grimes: At the governor’s public pension press conference yesterday, one reporter relaxed and showed a little too much leg. This is the definition of a “fashion don’t” for men. However, in the same room was Willie Brown, the epitome of
Read MoreWonder why Warren Buffett is a billionaire and you're not?
By John Seiler: Wonder why you have trouble paying your family’s bills? Maybe you home is in foreclosure? Wonder no more. Here’s veteran California reporter Dan Walters: It appears certain that the $11.1 billion water bond, the centerpiece of a
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