Regulations

CARB: The Gremlin in California’s garage

Dec. 11, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board’s first cap and trade auction in November is yet more proof that CARB is responsible for making people cough, snort and wheeze in California. While trying to convince everyone

Video: Victor Davis Hanson on why Latino leaders won’t stop illegal immigration

CalWatchdog Staff December 11, 2012

Dec. 11, 2012 By Brian Calle After a speech in Newport Beach, noted author Victor Davis Hanson talked to me about immigration policy.

Vive la Foie Gras Résistance!

CalWatchdog Staff December 10, 2012

Dec. 10, 2012 By John Hrabe In 2004, then-state Senate President Pro-Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, coined a profane, albeit effective, slogan that helped convince Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign into law the nation’s first ban on foie gras. A

Nanny staters’ school lunch debacle, chapter 237

CalWatchdog Staff December 10, 2012

Dec. 10, 2012 By Chris Reed This Associated Press story about student uprisings against federal school-lunch rules is one more reminder of how oblivious the statist left is about how people think. Of course kids want filling meals — not

Americans exiting for jobs

CalWatchdog Staff December 3, 2012

Dec. 3, 2012 By John Seiler I was reading about how, in the late 1980s during the Reagan prosperity, there was a shortage of workers. The top federal income tax rate was 28 percent. In California, the top state rate

Lawmakers seek probe of CA refineries

Joseph Perkins November 30, 2012

Nov. 30, 2012 By Joseph Perkins Taking time out from negotiations over the fiscal cliff, a half-dozen U.S. senators asked the Justice Department this week to investigate whether “market manipulation” by California oil refineries led to the run up in

Crazifornia: Three ‘crappy’ regulatory battles

CalWatchdog Staff November 30, 2012

Nov. 30, 2012 By Laer Pearce For a lot of very good reasons, California’s environmental regulators have earned a reputation for being, well, crappy to the rest of us. Three ongoing California regulatory battles over poop reinforce their already well-deserved

Protecting bird poop: regulation as self-parody

CalWatchdog Staff November 27, 2012

Nov. 27, 2012 By Chris Reed Here in San Diego, regulatory insanity has hit an all-time high, with environmental rules preventing city officials from cleaning up bird poop. “California Cove Blessed With Nature’s Beauty Reels From Its Stench” was the

Lax CPUC oversight lets PG&E gouge ratepayers

CalWatchdog Staff November 26, 2012

Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of two. Part 2 is here. Nov. 26, 2012 By Katy Grimes As the price of natural gas has fallen to a decade low, utility ratepayers wouldn’t know it. Utility costs continue to explode.

Reality show hides California reality

Joseph Perkins November 23, 2012

Nov. 23, 2012 By Joseph Perkins My wife turned me on to a new reality show, “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.” It airs on Bravo, between installments of the cable network’s “Real Housewives” franchise, which chronicles the lives of too-well-to-do ladies in places