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Back to homepageNothing is what it seems in CA politics
Aug. 24, 2012 Katy Grimes: Be sure to always watch both hands of California lawmakers, because as the right hand is patting your back, the left is picking your pocket. Earlier this morning I wrote that lawmakers in the state Senate
Read MoreSteinberg offers weak apology over hearing blackout
Aug. 14, 2012 By Katy Grimes Sen. Pres pro Tem Darrell Steinberg offered a weak apology Monday for cutting off access to the Capitol cable television program last week, which was recording an important Senate hearing about four of the November ballot
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Third World Kalifornia
Aug. 10, 2012 By John Seiler California continues to descend into Third World status, complete with corrupt, secretive government. The latest from Dan Walters: “Let’s not mince words about what the state Senate’s Democratic leader did Wednesday. It was self-serving
Read MoreCARB audit request killed by Democrats
Aug. 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board seems to be on everyone’s list of what not to do in state government. Charged with implementing AB 32, the California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, CARB is
Read MoreTrial lawyers want more money
August 6, 2012 By Katy Grimes Trial lawyers are not content to win medical damages cases and get paid a chunk of the damages awarded to the plaintiff. They are going after a bigger piece of the insurance pie. Senate
Read MoreDominant Dems rule and ruin Sacto
July 30, 2012 By Katy Grimes As Democrats have taken over most of the Golden State, an ugly attitude has crept in. This bad attitude is demonstrative of what’s wrong with today’s Democrats, and why they get called Socialists. They
Read MoreState parks: Only in California is a government surplus scandalous
July 23, 2012 By John Hrabe California’s Department of Parks and Recreation has been holding onto $54 million in surplus funds for the past decade. The agency didn’t bother to tell anyone at the state Department of Finance about their
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State parks director: negligent or incompetent?
July 20, 2012 Katy Grimes: The California State Parks agency has been sullied by a growing scandal. Three days ago I wrote about the illegal vacation buyout scandal in the State Parks and Recreation agency in “Scandalous state parks department
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