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Back to homepageGov. Antoinette-Brown: Let the unemployed eat cake
Feb. 19, 2013 By Chris Reed Over the weekend, the U-T San Diego had a story about the Texas vs. California business-climate debate. It featured an astounding claim from Gov. Jerry Brown’s top economics adviser: “California provides a higher level
Read MoreBond scandal now has villain; prosecutor, come on down
Feb. 18, 2013 By Chris Reed The steadily building scandal involving school districts and capital appreciation bonds now has a specific villain — and the potential for a criminal investigation by Orange County’s district attorney or the state attorney general.
Read MoreShocked teachers union confronts superintendent with a spine
Feb. 16, 2013 By Chris Reed The CTA’s L.A. branch, the United Teachers Los Angeles, is almost cartoonish in its villainy. UTLA members are the only suspects in a pathetic 2009 incident in which Latino parents of students attending a
Read MoreLawmaker declares war on highly lucrative state industry
Feb. 15, 2013 By Chris Reed So let’s get this framed correctly: California is the leader in a form of home entertainment that is immensely popular around America and the world, for better or worse. If California adopts rules that
Read MoreAG Harris’ housing bubble lawsuits ignore what inflated bubble
Feb. 10, 2013 By Chris Reed California Attorney General Kamala Harris is among the many Americans of all political persuasions who are outraged that few are taking the fall for the grotesque irresponsibility that led to the housing bubble, its
Read MoreYet another computer fiasco in home of Silicon Valley
Feb. 9, 2013 By Chris Reed Friday’s news that state Controller John Chiang had fired the second contractor hired to upgrade the state government’s computer payroll system for incompetence and poor work — a few years after the first contractor
Read MoreIs CA ‘Echo Boom’ financing tax flight to Fort Alamo?
Feb. 8, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi By now most Californians have heard the radio ads by Texas Gov. Rick Perry urging businesses to move to Texas. California Gov. Jerry Brown has inferred that the Texas governor is an annoying person.
Read MorePresidents abusing power: L.A. Times’ hypocrisy is immense
Feb. 6, 2013 By Chris Reed When the Bush administration responded to 9-11 by using “advanced interrogation techniques” and detaining hundreds of terror suspects indefinitely, all without offering clarity about exactly what it was doing and the legal rationales it
Read MoreScandal ‘boring’? Arrogant Jerry Brown drinks his own Kool-Aid
Feb. 6, 2013 By Chris Reed Sacramento is still buzzing over a bizarre and obnoxious scandal in which state parks officials hid $54 million while pressing to close 70 parks, and along comes another scandal in which Cal Fire hides
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