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Katy Grimes: Sacramento is living proof that the left hand doesn’t know what the other left hand is doing. Forget the right hand – there is no “right” in Sacramento. Despite the city’s $60 million deficit, city officials and several
Read MoreCity Privatization Sabotaged?
Katy Grimes: When employees who mow grass for the city of Sacramento are paid $60,000 annually, medical benefits and a nice pension, you know that the inmates are running the asylum. Unskilled labor jobs, which in the real world are
Read MoreCoastal Commission Holds Sacto Lovefest
JUNE 24, 2011 California Coastal Commission boss, and supporters, lobby for more money and power By LLOYD BILLINGSLEY A conference on the California Coastal Commission here Thursday, sponsored by Capitol Weekly, provided a forum for longtime CCC boss Peter Douglas.
Read MoreRedevelopment 'Exception' Proves Rule
JUNE 3, 2011 This article was first published in City Journal California. By STEVEN GREENHUT Doug Tessitor is the mayor of Glendora, a city in Los Angeles County. He’s a self-described conservative and dead certain that preserving California’s redevelopment agencies
Read MoreRicci Zombeck Would Let Your Kid Drown
Commentary JUNE 3, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Alameda Fire Division Chief Ricci Zombeck (the one without the big hat) has told ABC News that he would rather let your child drown to death in the San Francisco Bay than to
Read MoreDemocrats Pushing More CA Food Stamps
MAY 10, 2011 By DAVE ROBERTS “I’ve never forgotten Jack Kemp saying the way we define compassion is not by adding up how many people receive government benefits, but rather tallying the numbers of those who no longer need them.
Read MoreBrownley's Bill Bashing Bad Bags
MARCH 2 Sometimes, writing about state government is too easy. No matter how dire the current budget crisis, or low public opinion of the Legislature can get, our elected officials continue to perpetuate The Nanny State. Yes, I put it
Read MoreThe Cost Of Fighting Bullet Trains
FEB. 16, 2011 Sixty-five billion dollars. That’s the newest estimate of how much money it will take to run bullet trains across California. Though not an official figure – the California High-Speed Rail Authority still insists that they can pay
Read MoreWill Executions In California Ever Resume?
FEB. 10, 2011 As I write this on Feb. 8, San Jose federal Judge Jeremy Fogel is preparing to tour San Quentin State Prison’s new death chamber, which reportedly cost nearly a million dollars. It was Fogel who, after a
Read MoreBrown Impounds Cell Phones!
Anthony Pignataro: Within hours of the news breaking that Verizon will begin selling Apple’s iPhones, California Governor Jerry Brown issued Executive Order B-1-11, forcing 48,000 state employees to turn in their work-provided cellular phones. “It is difficult for me to
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