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AB 32: Now — now!!! — L.A. Times warns it imperils economy

March 5, 2013 By Chris Reed Seven years ago the California Legislature passed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a landmark law forcing California to shift to cleaner-but-costlier forms of energy by 2020 to reduce the emission

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Big Milk and Big Cheese start food fight

March 1, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician, knows a thing of two about health care. That’s why it is understandable the Sacramento Democrat was appointed chairman of the Assembly Health Committee. But Pan doesn’t know much

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Pelosi leads charge on minimum wage hike

Feb. 26, 2013 By Josephine Djuhana Raising the minimum wage helps the little guy — doesn’t it? President Obama’s State of the Union address earlier this month was more than a brightly optimistic speech on the current state of affairs

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L.A. Times finally admits L.A. facing broad decline

Feb. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed As someone who’s lived in Southern California since 1990, it’s been pretty obvious to me that Los Angeles and Los Angeles County have been in a broad decline that began when the end of

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Will nanotech, biotech bonanza rescue state from its politicians?

Feb. 23, 2013 By Chris Reed The Golden State may yet be rescued from its epic mismanagement by private-sector innovation that brings vast new wealth to California. For all our Solyndra-style boondoggles, there’s also extraordinarily promising work being done that

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Republican lawmaker touts bill pushed by labor bullies

Feb. 21, 2013 By Chris Reed You don’t have to be a union hater to be amazed at all the different ways labor decides to make its Sacramento puppets jump through hoops. The latest example is legislation that would require

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KFI’s John & Ken talk about CalWatchDog.com report

Feb. 20, 2013 By Chris Reed John & Ken of KFI 640 AM Los Angeles had me on Tuesday to talk about my CalWatchDog.com report on the L.A. Unified School District committing to spending $500 million in 30-year school “construction

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Gov. 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

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Bond 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.

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Lawmaker 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

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