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JUNE 7, 2010 By KATY GRIMES With PG&E spending $43 million on radio, television and print ads promoting Proposition 16, all-the-while insisting that the funding comes only from the shareholders and not ratepayers, one cannot help but ask that if
Read MoreState Vehicles Subjected To CARB Requirements
Katy Grimes: In an interesting twist of irony, the state is now subjected to California Air Resources Board (CARB) rules for retrofitting its diesel vehicles, but at a cost of $57 million for 400 state vehicles. The $57 million would
Read MorePaper, plastic or a dirty bag?
JUNE 3, 2010 Hollywood starlets, politicians, business representatives, labor and environmentalists had a meeting of the minds this week at a press conference held by Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, in support of AB1998, to ban the use of plastic
Read MorePressing state business
Steven Greenhut: The California Legislature continues to grapple with the tough issues. For instance, SB920 by Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, would, according to Capitol Weekly, “prohibit phone companies from delivering telephone directories to people who opt not to have them
Read MoreCARB's leadership fetish
JUNE 3, 2010 The word is “leadership.” These days, it’s hard to find a news article or press release about the California Air Resources Board (CARB) that doesn’t talk up the agency’s “leadership” in something or other. California’s automobile fuel
Read MoreCA legislators rebuke Texas textbooks
JUNE 2, 2010 By DAVE ROBERTS César Chavez can rest safe in the knowledge that his place among the pantheon of American giants in history books will be preserved in California. The state Senate last week approved by a 25-5
Read MoreBill makes ex-cons a protected class
JUNE 1, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI If you don’t hire ‘em, you might join ‘em, if a new bill proposed by Assemblyman Steven Bradford, D – Inglewood, becomes law. The Assemblyman is sponsoring AB2727 — otherwise known as the “Re-entry
Read MoreGreen-job future a fraud
JUNE 1, 2010 By JOHN SEILER California’s unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, at 12.6 percent. That’s 2.7 percentage points above the national average. The persistence of unemployment also is something Californians haven’t seen since the Great Depression. The May 30
Read MoreSteinberg's office responds
CalWatchdog just received this response from Darrell Steinberg’s communications director Nathan Barankin regarding this recent blog post: I read your blog post about the exchange of correspondence between Senator Steinberg and a constituent regarding the State of Arizona’s new immigration
Read MoreState worst place to do business!
A healthy round of congratulations to state officials is definitely in order. A press release just sent out by Senator Robert Dutton‘s office says the State of California is “ranked as the worst state in the nation to do business, a
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