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Back to homepageStory Time In The Senate
Katy Grimes: Bring your milk, cookies and a soft blanket to story time in the Senate tomorrow. Instead of debating the merits of state policy, expect to see and hear fabulous and illustrative letters read aloud by Senators, from sheriffs and
Read MoreCA Internet Tax Would Hit Small Business
JUNE 7, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Instead of working on making cuts to a growing state government, California lawmakers have been dreaming up new ways to get the state’s residents to pony up more tax money, or “revenue,” as it
Read MoreJail For UC Davis Embezzler
JUNE 6, 2011 By K. LLOYD BILLINGSLEY Former UC Davis official Jennifer Beeman was sentenced on Thursday to 180 days in jail and five years probation. Beeman must also pay back $10,525 she embezzled from a campus program she headed,
Read MoreRichest Counties Not in CA
John Seiler: You might think that some of America’s richest counties would be right here in California. Santa Clara County — Silicon Valley — houses the world’s computer geniuses. Orange County has valuable beach property and high-tech Irvine. San Francisco
Read MoreBill Puts CA Med Insurance in ER
JUNE 6, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Tough new state medical insurance regulations could pull the plug on the plans held by many California families. On Thursday, without the help of Assembly Republicans, Democrats in the Assembly passed AB 52, which
Read MoreTrain Wreck Keeps Rolling
Katy Grimes: With the Legislature’s ongoing guaranteed votes to allow California’s High Speed Rail Authority project to continue without financial analysis or ridership studies, it is apparent that High Speed Rail has become the latest New Deal-styled WPA project for
Read MoreMemorial Day Weekend in So. Cal.
John Seiler: Forget politics for a couple of days. It’s a beautiful Memorial Day weekend in Southern California. Yesterday I took this picture of a 59 Cadillac. What a beauty. It was in front of a Bank of America in
Read MoreBrown Budget Flies to Fantasyland
MAY 24, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI There is a children’s fairy tale about a Sacramento government accountant for the State of California who takes his new poor stepdaughter all the way to Orange County to go to Disneyland for the
Read MoreNew Assembly Bills Will Kill CA Jobs
MAY 23, 2011 By KATY GRIMES In less than three hours in the Assembly on Thursday, scores more anti-business bills were passed — always by a Democratic majority. The bills, if passed by the Senate and signed by Gov. Jerry
Read MoreCalifornia's Bereaving Private Employers
MAY 19, 2011 By KATY GRIMES In the event of the death of a relative, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal wants employees to take four days leave from work to properly mourn – and she’s authored a bill giving employees 13 months
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