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Attack on corporations fails in Assembly

Aug. 22, 2012 By Katy Grimes It’s rare that a bad bill fails to pass one or the other houses in the California Legislature. However, Tuesday a bill failed which would have required private sector, publicly traded corporations to file

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Companies will exploit Cap and Trade

Aug. 9, 2012 By John Seiler Anti-capitalists always complain that entrepreneurs exploit loopholes in all those nice laws liberals and progressives pass to help the environment, the baby seals, the rain forests, etc. You can bet that will happen with

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Spare the air; don’t breathe

August 1, 2012 Katy Grimes: As part of the campaign against the automobile, California’s air quality management districts are currently advertising that because of the summer heat, the air quality is bad. Their answer is ‘don’t drive.’ What a great

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Calif. regs killing lumber manufacturers

July 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes California’s private forest lands are some of the most productive in the world. But state regulation of timber harvesting practices have become so overbearing and complex that the industry is losing lumber manufacturers by

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Cal ISO focuses on Enron 2, not Cap & Trade manipulation

July 20, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi A rerun is playing on TV of the inaccurate 2005 “documentary” movie, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” about Enron manipulating the California Electricity Crisis of 2001. It features Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and

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Anti-democracy bill guts California open-government laws

July 18, 2012 By Katy Grimes Buried deep within the new state budget lies a bill so evil, so corrupt and so illegal, a state agency is now being declared an official “enemy of the people” by weary taxpayers. The

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High-speed rail push leading to Nov slaughter?

July 5, 2012 By Katy Grimes Commentary This week could mark the last big, well-orchestrated push for high-speed rail. Think of it as a drug being mainlined directly into the state’s largest vein. High-speed rail is not about the train,

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The tangled web of High-speed spending

June 11, 2012 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — With the looming state budget deadline of June 15, most lawmakers are at least pretending to have budget issues in their sights at the moment. But there are still thousands of bills

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Assembly passes bad Cap and Trade bill

May 29, 2012 Katy Grimes: The Assembly today passed the controversial Cap and Trade bill,  Assembly Bill 1532, by Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, which would deposit Cap and Trade carbon credit permit monies into a new Greenhouse Gas

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Tossing in the conservative towel

May 14, 2012 By Katy Grimes Since yesterday was Mother’s Day and all about me, I’ve decided that I want to get up every morning and be happy. I realized that it was time to toss in the conservative towel

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