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Steven Greenhut: Former Assemblyman Todd Spitzer has been a full-on tool of the public employee unions throughout his career, but after being fired from the district attorney’s office he is now seeking to be county supervisor. Spitzer wants it both
Read MoreGOP Siding With Big Government
Steven Greenhut: The vote is still open in the Assembly on legislation to end redevelopment, with most Republicans voting to save these big-government, corporate-welfare-doling, eminent-domain-abusing agencies. The bill is now four votes short of passage, so thank the likes of
Read MoreMI Cuts Taxes; Why Not CA?
John Seiler: Michigan has been mired in a Depression a lot longer than California. But late last year its unemployment rate, long the worst in the nation, dropped to third-worst. California moved up to second-worst, behind Nevada. Michigan and California
Read MoreFirefighters Fight Back!
Steven Greenhut: Here is the video that the firefighters’ union is running to defend themselves against the increasing criticisms of their enormous pay and benefit packages, which average more than $170,000 a year in many California jurisdictions and which include
Read MoreMore Democracy At Election Time
FEB. 2, 2011 by JOHN SEILER “All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy,” said Al Smith, the New York governor and presidential candidate in 1928 (pictured at right). He was the last small-government Democratic presidential candidate
Read MoreAnother Bee Front-Page Parks 'Editorial'
JAN. 27, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT The Sacramento Bee is nothing if not persistent in its push for higher taxes to pay for the state’s park system, as evidenced by its umpteen-part series last summer prior to the failed state
Read MoreBuy On Rumor, Sell On News
Wayne Lusvardi: In California, polls show that new Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to extend $5.9 billion in “temporary” income, sales, vehicular license fees, and tobacco taxes instead of letting them expire has an unlikely chance of passage in June 2011. The
Read MoreBrown Refuses Minor Pension Reforms
JAN. 14, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Gov. Jerry Brown is coming into office with a lot of highly publicized and some praiseworthy activity, as he pushes ahead what he calls an honest budget, free from the usual gimmicks, and makes
Read MoreBrown Wisely Takes On Corporate Welfare
JAN. 10, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT The Sacramento Bee’s coverage of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies reads like something out of a California Redevelopment Association press release: “Old Sacramento was revived with the help of public
Read MoreThe People's Governor?
Steven Greenhut: The Sacramento Bee reported today that the Orange County Employees Association, the union representing OC’s miscellaneous county workers, and Sen. Lou Correa, the “moderate” Democrat from Anaheim who authored 1999 legislation that started the “3 percent at 50”
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