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Back to homepageManaging Budget Garbage Pain
Katy Grimes: The threats of massive cuts to police, fire, sheriff, teachers, and parole programs are just not as visible as a city that has let the grass grow in parks or doesn’t pick up the garbage. Missing a
Read MoreSenate Drowns Steinberg Water Bill
MAY 5, 2011 By KATY GRIMES In a highly unusual turn of events, a high-profile water bill authored by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, was drowned by his own party. Colleagues figured out that the bill would move
Read MoreLegislative Process Wrecking Calif.
MAY 5, 2011 This week I witnessed first hand everything that is wrong with California, and it’s happening at the hands of many of the state’s 40 senators and 79 Assembly members. Sen. Roderick Wright, D-Los Angeles, has authored two
Read MoreStarve GOP Districts Of State Funds
Katy Grimes: In a room full of Capitol journalists at the Sacramento Press Club lunch meeting Wednesday, Democratic Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg began down a road that should have frozen the insides of everyone in attendance. But even
Read MoreRail Authority "Ineffective"
Katy Grimes: When a lawmaker admits that an agency created from a bond measure that he supported and help get passed has grown ineffective and needs a serious makeover, it is evident that there is a problem. Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal
Read MoreHelmut Hair No More
Katy Grimes: Five different attempts at repealing California’s motorcycle helmet law have been defeated by the Legislature, but that isn’t stopping Republican Assemblyman Chris Norby (Fullerton), who is making one more attempt to exempt motorcycle riders over the age of 21,
Read MoreHappy Easter!
John Seiler: We at CalWatchDog.com wish all of you a Happy Easter. Celebration with Easter Egg hunts and bunny rabbits expresses the underlying belief, for Christians, in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter is a time of renewal. It is
Read MoreBad Bill Mill, Part Deux
APRIL 21, 2011 By KATY GRIMES With 79 full-time Assembly members and 40 Senators pumping out more than 2,000 bills each year, the bad bills just keep coming. And as with any group of 120 different persons, there will be
Read MoreUC Davis Fraud Sentencing
K. Lloyd Billingsley: On June 2, former UC Davis official Jennifer Beeman will be sentenced in an embezzlement case. Beeman pleaded no contest in Yolo Superior Court on April 14 to two felony counts of embezzlement and falsifying accounts. Neither
Read MoreThe Bad Bill Mill, Part I
APRIL 19, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Talking about bad bills churning out of the state Capitol may seem as silly as critiquing the dining selections at a Denny’s. But it is a realistic discussion. California is experiencing a horrific financial crisis.
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