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Back to homepageSubsidized home loans déjà vu
JUNE 18, 2010 By KATY GRIMES While listening to a housing and community development committee hearing this week, a strange sense of déjà vu came over me. Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, presented SB 958, a bill designed to acquire
Read MoreFlag Day, OCGOP style
JUNE 17, 2010 By BRIAN CALLE An often forgotten holiday-of-sorts, Flag Day, is celebrated on June 14 and is the official day when Americans pay homage to the “Star-Spangled Banner.” One of the biggest celebrations of Old Glory in California
Read MoreDMV workers speak out
JUNE 17, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO For reasons that shouldn’t surprise anyone, employees of the California Department of Motor Vehicles have a lot to say. In May, when DMV officials began circulating a “Two Minute DMV Employee Survey,” 4,547 staffers
Read MoreIgnoring 'public safety' abuse
Steven Greenhut: The Sacramento deputies union has been running full-age ads in the Sacramento Bee warning about the ramifications of cuts in their department budgets. In Stockton, city cops are placing billboards around town warning that people are being murdered
Read More"That car had better be waiting"
Katy Grimes: It’s always interesting traveling and observing how people treat one another. Some are exceedingly polite while other travelers seem to be clueless that they are traveling along with half of the world — peons, plebes and all —
Read MoreEx-felons as care providers
JUNE 15, 2010 By TROY ANDERSON Not long after the Sacramento County Grand Jury described In-Home Supportive Services as an “employment program for ex-felons,” prosecutors learned a number of IHSS providers taking care of aged, blind and disabled people were
Read MoreMore dumb bills
John Seiler: Once again, tomorrow the Legislature will miss its June 15 deadline for passing a balanced budget — or any kind of budget. Instead, our Masters are messing again with the initiative process with dumb new bills. Sen. Mark
Read MoreWoohoo! CDCR is blogging!
Anthony Pignataro: Please don’t all rush there at once because we don’t want to jam up anyone’s servers, but I just wanted to tell you that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has a new website: www.cdcr.ca.gov. The
Read MoreState is always hiring
MAY 28, 2010 “The California Government is Always Hiring,” boasts an advertisement in Capitol Weekly newspaper. “Even during recent hiring freezes, the state hired 3-4000 new employees EVERY MONTH and accepting applications for over 1000 job titles at any one
Read MoreResponse To Steinberg Staffer’s Response
After a CalWatchdog story last week about Democrat Senate Pro Tem President Darrell Steinberg’s response to a constituent’s letter expressing her dismay that he would encourage a boycott of Arizona’s businesses because of the recent immigration law passed, (Senator Steinberg
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