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AB 817 would allow non-citizens to work at polls

July 15, 2013 By Katy Grimes Poll watchers in America are currently people who are also legally registered to vote. But a new bill would change that in California. If Assembly Bill 817 is passed, non-citizens, also known as legal resident aliens,

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Controversial Napolitano coming to UC system

July 12, 2013 By Katy Grimes A startling announcement early this morning caught many Californians off guard: Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is resigning and moving to California to head the University of California system. This is a real eyebrow-raiser,

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Chino Hills wins battle against So Cal Edison

July 12, 2013 By Katy Grimes Chino Hills will be waving bye-bye to the 200 foot electrical transmission towers erected near homes, schools and churches in the lovely bedroom community. Yesterday the Southern California city won a long and arduous

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Park Service wants to ban most people from Yosemite

July 11, 2013 By Katy Grimes Yosemite National Park is one of America’s greatest natural treasurers, set aside as a national park nearly 150 years ago by Abraham Lincoln specifically for “the public use, resort and recreation…for all time.” Yet

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Southern CA ‘Bonfire of the vanities’

July 11, 2013 By Katy Grimes Whenever environmental or social justice activists want something banned, they create a health or safety reason supporting their policy. This is the case with the attempt by the South Coast Air Quality Management District to

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Revolutionary pension game-changer, or bigger pension problems?

July 10, 2013 By Katy Grimes There is a potentially revolutionary way of restructuring public pensions being floated by U.S. Sen. Orin Hatch which would  park public pension liabilities with private insurance companies, and get government out of the pension business

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‘Mayor Steinberg’ a disaster-in-waiting for Sacramento

July 10, 2013 By Katy Grimes Sacramento’s City Council has historically been a revolving door into state politics. Do the names Phil Isenberg, Bob Matsui, Debra Ortiz, Lloyd Connelly, Darrell Steinberg, and Dave Jones, ring a bell? Each of these

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CA senator seeks to coerce Boy Scouts, other nonprofits

July 9, 2013 By Katy Grimes Government should not be in the business of dictating the policies and religious convictions of private groups and charities. But that is exactly what one California lawmaker is attempting. Senate Bill 323 by Sen.

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Don’t take your guns to San Fran town

July 8, 2013 By Katy Grimes Touting “community values” and the need to reduce crime, Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, wants the Crossroads of the West gun show tossed out of the Cow Palace in South San Francisco. But a

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Erasing “man” and “men,” one state at a time

July 8, 2013 By Katy Grimes The radical feminists are on a roll. They continue to make gains in their attempt to make “man” and “men” officially unacceptable terms in government. The latest weird politically correct idea to make it

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