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Back to homepageSilicon Valley Flunks 6 'Killer App' Tests
MARCH 14, 2011 BY WAYNE LUSVARDI Last month with Silicon Valley elites, President Obama raised a glass of wine to toast the area’s success. He was repairing his self-damaged image with big business. But a symbolic Sword of Damocles hovered
Read MoreEnd of Nuke Power in CA, America
John Seiler: One solution to California’s need for electricity would have been to construct more nuclear power plants. Doing so also would have helped the state meet the requirements of AB 32 to reduce greenhouse gases. Nuke plants don’ t
Read MoreThe Real Meaning of the Constitution
By JOHN SEILER Writing recently in the Sacramento Bee, two professors mangled the actual meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Alan Gibson of Cal State Chico and James Read of the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University in Minnesota
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 MoreWhy California's Party Ran Out of Tea
JAN. 19, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI How could California voters elect Democrats to every executive office and every incumbent state andcCongressional legislative seat in a clean sweep in November 2010 when nearly all the states in Middle America turned to
Read More'California-care' Funding Problem
By KATY GRIMES NOV. 30, 2010 As California prepares for national health care legislation, the looming and potentially massive increase in Medi-Cal spending has already begun, and will most likely continue to outpace any growth in the state’s revenues. Officially
Read MoreBusiness Property Not Under-taxed
NOV. 12, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A rebuttal is required to Lenny Goldberg of the California Tax Reform Association who contends that small business properties are overtaxed and large corporate and franchise business properties are under taxed by Prop. 13
Read MoreDr. Arnold's Health Plan for You
John Seiler: In case you hadn’t heard, Gov. Dr. Prof. Arnold Schwarzenegger, M.D., F.A.C.C., D.O., D.C., D.D.S., D.V.M., signed into law the California Health Benefits Exchange. It implements Obamacare, otherwise called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Congress
Read MoreIs California Ungovernable?
NOV. 3, 2010 I jokingly referred earlier in the week to Meg Whitman’s campaign as the worst campaign ever. Now I’m not joking. And while I am sure it’s not the worst ever, it was really bad. Running against former
Read MoreIf GOP Fails, 3rd Party Will Rise
OCT. 28, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, has taken a long, strange journey to veteran status in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he could soon be heading the House Committee on Science and Technology. He’s
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