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Back to homepageLawsuit, bills seek to dowse fire tax
March 25, 2013 By Dave Roberts It hasn’t been a great year for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. In January, the Los Angeles Times revealed that for seven years Cal Fire has been hoarding a slush fund
Read MoreBusinesses protest Gov. Brown’s fee hike
March 15, 2013 By Dave Roberts “Constantly expanding the coercive power of government by adding each year so many minute prescriptions to our already detailed and turgid legal system overshadows other aspects of public service.” — Gov. Jerry Brown, State
Read MoreLawsuit opposes excessive Coastal Commission restrictions
March 8, 2013 By Dave Roberts One of the reasons many California businesses are struggling to survive or are leaving the state is over-regulation by the state’s vast bureaucracy. While much of the economic devastation can be quantified, one of
Read MoreSenate committee advances bills on rape, sentencing
March 7, 2013 By Dave Roberts California state laws from the past occasionally crop up and need to be amended. That happened last week when the Senate Public Safety Committee unanimously approved SB 59, which is designed to close a loophole that allows
Read MoreCA Dems seek to export gun crackdown
March 6, 2013 By Dave Roberts California’s Democratic politicians, not content to have enacted some of the nation’s strictest restrictions on their citizens’ right to keep and bear arms, now want to do the same to the rest of the
Read MoreOutrage at CalPERS’ 85% rate hike for long-term care
Feb. 20, 2013 By Dave Roberts When tens of thousands of state employees signed up for the California Public Employees Retirement System‘s long-term care insurance plan as it was first offered in 1995, they thought they were doing the prudent
Read MoreRoad project bulldozes building owner’s equity
Feb. 15, 2013 By Dave Roberts If you live near or frequently travel along the Burlington North Santa Fe rail line in north Orange County, you’re probably looking forward to the completion of the $600 million in road improvements that
Read MoreGov. Brown, legislators fight over Prop. 39 funds for schools
Feb. 3, 2013 By Dave Roberts Gov. Jerry Brown declared at the start of his State of the State address, “We have wrought in just two years a solid and enduring budget.” But in recent legislative hearings, the Legislative Analyst’s Office charged
Read MoreOakland hires ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Bill Bratton to fight crime
Jan. 29, 2013 By Dave Roberts Oakland’s website prominently touts that it has been ranked by the New York Times as the fifth best place in the world to visit. It beat out every other North American city as well
Read MoreState Senate Democrats Crack Down on Fracking
Jan. 18, 2013 By Dave Roberts Despite the more than three-decade safety record of hydraulic fracturing in California, Democrats served notice last week that they will be cracking down on the energy-production method in the coming year. The frack fight
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