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Back to homepageNew High-Speed Rail biz plan crashes into reality
April 14, 2012 By Katy Grimes What a train wreck. Barreling down the tracks in one direction, on April 9 a congressional committee launched a probe California’s high-speed rail project over charges of conflicts of interest and questionable spending of federal dollars.
Read MoreSupreme Court gives a break to employers and workers
April 13, 2012 By Katy Grimes California employers have been regulated and mandated to the point of ridiculousness — and unprofitability. But a California Supreme Court decision this week finally gives employers a break—while still giving employees a break. Resolving
Read More‘Funding scheme’ or help for small business?
April 11, 2012 By Katy Grimes Does California need another small business loan guarantee program specifically for clean energy companies and agricultural businesses? California State Controller John Chiang and San Francisco Sen. Leland Yee think so. But some are questioning
Read MoreEnviros Force Lucasfilm out of Marin
April 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes After 25 years of fighting with Marin County residents, film maker George Lucas and Lucasfilm, the brains and talent behind the Star Wars movies, took Marin County by surprise when his company announced that it
Read MoreWill Calif. end double taxation of businesses?
April 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes For more than 100 years, California was known as a great manufacturing state. It could be again if a new bill passes. For decades, businesses clamored to come to the Golden State, and entrepreneurs
Read MoreLegislative swooning over CA coastal guru
April 9, 2012 By Katy Grimes In the California Assembly and Senate Monday, one would have thought that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had just died and was being eulogized. But the ghost of FDR was not present. Instead, Peter Douglas of the
Read MoreCalifornia needs adult supervision
April 9, 2012 By Katy Grimes More than ever, California is a state run by children. Selfish, self-absorbed state officials and lawmakers have been implementing pet policies and legislation for so many decades, they are now arguing among themselves over
Read MoreCA Energy Schemes: ‘We are getting fleeced’
April 5, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board has created a stealthy new corporation in Delaware. The Western Climate Initiative Inc., which will manage cap-and-trade programs, even has its own form of currency. WCI Inc. says it exists “to perform
Read MoreSacramento Stimulus Arena
April 4, 2012 Katy Grimes It’s getting tiring pointing out that while Sacramento burns, the City Council is fiddling. At the city council meeting last evening, several council members questioned whether Joe and Gavin Maloof, the Kings’ owners, were serious or
Read MoreCA ban on racial preferences upheld
April 3, 2012 Katy Grimes: Proposition 209, a constitutional amendment that prohibits the government from granting educational or employment preferences to individuals based on race, was surprisingly upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday. The 9th Circuit had already
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