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Politics pollutes ‘water rights’ bill

Aug. 30, 2012 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — An interesting debate took place Wednesday in the Assembly over a bill granting California residents the “right” to clean drinking water. Is clean drinking water a right? Can the state grant rights

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Cap and trade, or tax and raid?

Aug. 28, 2012 Katy Grimes: An auction tax is one of the proposed methods for allocating permits to California businesses and public agencies which are subject to the AB 32 cap and trade program under preparation by the California Air Resources Board. AB

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Cap and trade “pretend” media auction today

Aug. 28, 2012 Katy Grimes: The California Air Resources Board is holding a webinar for credentialed media today “to familiarize them with the mechanics and purpose of the cap-and-trade practice auction.” It’s a media show and should be interesting. The “practice auction”

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State muscles grocers over plastic bags

Aug. 21, 2012 Katy Grimes: The plastic bag activists are at it again, and they are nothing, if not persistent. With the eleventh bill regulating plastic bags in less than 10 years, grocery stores don’t have a chance in California. Passed

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Gov. Brown’s press secretary slams Peggy Noonan

Aug. 20, 2012 By John Seiler Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan criticized our fair state. That brought an Aug. 19 reply from Gil Duran, Gov. Jerry Brown’s press secretary. But it’s Duran who’s inaccurate. He wrote: “Peggy

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Report: carbon emissions lowest in 20 years!

Aug. 17, 2012 Katy Grimes: Apparently the big news that the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the United States has fallen to the lowest level in 20 years, hasn’t yet reached the desk of Mary Nichols,

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California’s Global Regulatory Regime

(Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a series on how California’s regulations affect the global economy. Part I is available here.) Aug. 16, 2012 By John Hrabe California’s regulations aren’t just a California problem. When the state’s obscure Office

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Maviglio wrong on tax increase aftermath

Aug. 15, 2012 By John Seiler I like Steve Maviglio, the longtime Democratic and union activist and spokesperson, because he summarizes what those he represents are thinking. So it’s worth reading what he says on the the legislative vote for

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Court order means early release for California inmates

Aug. 15, 2012 By Joseph Perkins California faces a Friday deadline to schedule the early release of hundreds, if not thousands, of state prison inmates. The deadline was imposed two weeks ago by a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S.

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I’m sharing enough

Aug. 13, 2012 By John Seiler I make a middle-class income. I never even have come close to making as much money as such rich, liberal tax-increasers as Arnold Schwarzenegger, George H.W. Bush (the first one), President Obama, Gov. Jerry

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