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Another Republican Message. Or Not.

I attended the Sacramento County Republican Party Crab Feed this evening. The event was fun and very well attended. There were plenty of sincere Republicans present, candidates, party regulars, young and old. Congressman Dan Lungren spoke… for too long… and

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State's Unions Win Another Court Battle

The state worker furlough situation is getting curiouser and curiouser. Yesterday Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled that furloughed workers are entitled to back pay due to the furloughs, and ordered the state to “cease and desist the furlough

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Tough decisions

Heard this very interesting commentary by Sacramento Bee editorial page editor Stuart Leavenworth this morning on Capital Public Radio. Hooked to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent (and bizarre) statement that “the worst is over” as far as the state’s economic troubles

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Community colleges oversell 0.7% enrollment decline

Feb. 26, 2010 By ELISE VIEBECK The chancellor for California’s community colleges lamented a 0.7% decline in the system’s enrollment yesterday, reporting that more than 200,000 students will be “unfunded” — that is, enrolled beyond schools’ funded capacities — this

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Will "Going Green" Backfire?

With nearly every politician — from city councils to state legislators, governors  and congress – embracing green technology as the cause du jour, they don’t realize that with every bill signed, they may be actually killing the industry. It’s kind

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CalPERS ignores Legislature on Iran

Feb. 25, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Nearly three years ago, California legislators passed AB221 requiring the sale of investments in Iran. In a hearing yesterday at the Capitol, California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) representatives made clear to legislators that

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Capitol field trip!

Feb. 24, 2010 Most people probably get the impression that I spend my days at the state Capitol, prowling the hallways for story leads. Actually I get over to the Capitol very little, but lately I’ve been visiting more often,

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Silly Bills

Sensitive as I am to the plight of the California legislator during such a difficult economic time, the need to abandon said sensitivity and ask “what are you thinking?” is taking over. Senator Dean Florez has introduced two new bills,

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Auditing the state of our government

Feb. 21, 2010 A new report from the California State Auditor should throw cold water on those who believe that the best way to solve the state’s problems is by expanding government power, increasing government funding and creating new regulatory

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Pat Wiggins' latest outburst

Senator Pat Wiggins, D-Santa Rosa, is becoming a very sad story. For at least the last year or so, she’s been suffering from unnamed “medical condition” (the words belong to her aides who, when they do speak about their boss,

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