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Back to homepageBill could sunset state agencies
APRIL 26, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Should all state agencies be subject to possible dissolution after 12 years, following a review by The Little Hoover Commission and the Legislature? State Senator Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Murrieta, thinks they should and proposed SB887 creating
Read MoreRepublicans Moving Forward?
UPDATE: I spoke with Assembly member Roger Niello over the weekend. Niello said that his discussions with Garrick were informal and that he was not officially “appointed” to lead Assembly Republicans with California Forward. However, he does was a seat
Read MoreGovernor Supporting Pension Reform
APRIL 22, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Yesterday Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senate Minority Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Murietta, announced that they’re supporting pension reform for state employees. The governor stated that while it is a compromise from his earlier hard line approach, something must
Read MoreSunset state agencies?
APRIL 12, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Murrieta, has introduced legislation, on behalf of the Schwarzenegger administration, that would create the Office of the Chief Inspector “to act as an independent state entity with the sole mission to deter,
Read MoreAnswering A Lie Within 24 Hours
Former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown famously once said, “in politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.” In The Sacramento Bee this past Sunday April 11, 2010, former Assembly Speaker and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown had an
Read MoreFraud plagues state stimulus funds
APRIL 8, 2010 By TROY ANDERSON The board of directors’ retreat at a luxury casino: $8,300. The price tag for their bottled water: $2,300. And let’s not forget their facial tissue: $460. These are just a few of the $542,478
Read MoreCities create own traffic fiefdoms
APRIL 6, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO According to aides to Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, a Long Beach police officer recently gave a Torrance resident a choice: get a speeding ticket for violating the state’s Vehicle Code, which will go on the
Read MoreE-Waste bill passes out of committee
Senator Jenny Oropeza’s SB1052, which rationalize state agencies’ approach to electronic waste, passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee this afternoon, according to a press release sent out by Oropeza’s office. “I am alarmed the California State Auditor has
Read MoreDMV cops fight terror!
April 1, 2010 I wouldn’t know anything about them if it wasn’t for the two guns. Multipurpose .40 caliber Glock 23’s, to be exact. It’s one of the most popular guns used by law enforcement today. They showed up in
Read MoreState violates e-waste rules
March 31, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Despite a state Auditor’s report and a four-year-old law that prohibits consumers from throwing old and broken electronic devices into the trash, many state agencies are apparently still throwing computers, television sets, radios, printers,
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