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Election losers still win big

Dec. 3, 2012 Katy Grimes: The chief strategist for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has finally spoken out about what happened. And as expected, he’s playing down the significance of the loss. In a Washington Post op ed, Romney’s Chief Strategist

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The govt. wants your 401(k) plan

Nov. 30, 2012 Katy Grimes: With the recent Democratic reelection win by the Obama administration, get ready for more than tax increases. The government now wants your private 401(k) retirement plan.  “As Washington debates what to do about the fiscal

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Disabled agency refuses to cut waste

Nov. 29, 2012 By Katy Grimes The Department of Developmental  Services is a massive state agency that could immediately cut $500 million from its annual budget, according to lobbyists and experts, by getting rid of the antiquated institutions that the

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What’s good for the goose is good for fraud victims

Nov. 26, 2012 Katy Grimes: Former Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee is facing only an 8-year sentence, even after she was arrested on charges of mail fraud and defrauding Democratic campaigns of millions of dollars. The Sacramento Bee reported Monday that Federal prosecutors

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Free Kinde Durkee!

Nov. 26, 2012 By John Seiler It just was reported that federal officials are going to seek an eight-year sentence against Kinde Durkee for ripping off Democratic campaign funds to the tune of millions of dollars. But why? California Democratic

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Lax CPUC oversight lets PG&E gouge ratepayers

Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of two. Part 2 is here. Nov. 26, 2012 By Katy Grimes As the price of natural gas has fallen to a decade low, utility ratepayers wouldn’t know it. Utility costs continue to explode.

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Secrecy pollutes first CA cap and trade auction

Nov. 20 2012 By Katy Grimes Ignoring a lawsuit filed by the California Chamber of Commerce, the California Air Resources Board went ahead with its first auction of greenhouse gas allowances last Wednesday, Nov. 14. The results of the auction were

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McClintock: Election will bring pain to CA

Nov. 19, 2012 By Katy Grimes Abraham Lincoln said that if the voters get their backsides too close to the fire, they’ll just have to sit on the blisters for a while. After the Nov. 6 election, Californians have some

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More media malpractice

Nov. 17, 2012 Katy Grimes: One of the worst editorials I’ve ever read was in today’s Sacramento Bee. Throughout the presidential campaign, the factually-challenged Bee editorial board claimed that Mitt Romney didn’t have his facts straight, and called him a

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Californians give Dems PIN numbers

Nov. 16, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — After the election results came in, I started searching for two things: a stiff drink and a good out-of-state real estate agent. The national election sends troubling signs about the direction of

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