Regulations
Back to homepageFlawed study tries to link smog with childhood cancer
April 26, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Anyone who remembers the choking smog of 1960s Los Angeles knows of the great advances since then in cleaning the air. But as Nobel economist Milton Friedman once quipped, “Nothing is so
Read MoreHow about a $100 per hour minimum wage?
April 25, 2013 By John Seiler The Democrats who run California believe they are “progressives.” They want to “help the poor, the working classes, the proletariat.” Hardly. Their latest sop to the oppressed: they want to increase the minimum wage
Read MoreFacebook plants server farm in IA not CA
April 24, 2013 By John Seiler California remains a fantastic place if you have a 180 IQ and an entrepreneurial spirit. You move to Silicon Valley, live and work in a closet and devour Coke and pizza until you make
Read MoreN.Y. Times shames Mercury-News on AB 32 coverage
April 23, 2013 By Chris Reed The fact that no one in the California media besides me has reported that the Obama administration considers fracking no big deal and just another heavy industry is pretty amazing. Obama’s picks for EPA
Read MoreNew energy taxes could bring $6 gas
April 22, 2013 By Warren Duffy Is gas at more than $4 a gallon in California high enough? Not if David Lipton gets his way. The former member of the Clinton administation now is the deputy director of the International
Read MoreIn coming CA fracking war, will unions be Oxy’s surprise ally?
April 21, 2013 By Chris Reed The coming battle over fracking in California is going to be a doozy. There’s too much money to be made in the “brown energy” revolution for monied interests to not pursue the reserves in
Read MoreBill to ban plastic bags in California clears Senate committee
April 19, 2013 By Josephine Djuhana The war on plastic bags has returned with a vengeance, as legislators introduce new regulations that dictate what kinds of bags California shoppers are allowed to use when out shopping for groceries. SB 405,
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Feds destroy up to 47% of raisin crop
April 18, 2013 By John Seiler One of the better commercials over the years was the dancing California Raisins: But did you know that the federal government seizes from farmers — without pay — up to 47 percent of America’s
Read MoreCA social engineers: Gov’t should parent ‘disadvantaged’ kids
April 18, 2013 By Chris Reed The recent flap over an MSNBC promo in which commentator Melissa Harris-Perry declared that Americans “have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to
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