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MAY 9, 2011 By KATY GRIMES California residents planning automobile road trips this summer beware. The Department of Motor Vehicles is not allowing July auto registrations to be paid. The DMV has been ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown to refuse
Read MoreBusiness Resolution Is All Talk
Katy Grimes: Anyone who has had to sit through a session in the state Senate or Assembly knows the agony of listening to mostly meaningless resolutions, usually presented with a stated intent to support an issue. Thursday the Senate unanimously passed Senate
Read MoreCity v. City With Local Tax Increases
Katy Grimes: Threatening cuts of more than 20,000 teachers, $5 billion in cuts to schools, cuts in protection by police and sheriff, and the elimination of parole services, Sacramento Sen. Darrell Steinberg successfully passed a local taxation bill out of a
Read MoreLockyer: 'We're coming after you!'
John Seiler: In person, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer is a mild-mannered fellow, whom I’ve enjoyed meeting with several times. But his class-warfare rhetoric makes him sound like a California Pol Pot. Here’s what he just said at this weekend’s California
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 MoreHigh-Speed Rail Crashes Into Legislature
APRIL 27, 2011 By KATY GRIMES The costs and the legislation for the California High-Speed Rail Authority keep speeding toward a train wreck. When the voters of California approved Proposition 1A in November 2008, they authorized $9.95 billion in general
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.
Read MoreGolf and Spa With The Democrats
Katy Grimes: The links at Pebble Beach will be lit up this weekend with Democratic duffers as they de-stress before spring break. In an event underwritten by AT&T, for $60,000, the “Ultimate” Package includes golf for four on Friday
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Recall May Be GOP's Only Power Left
APRIL 5, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Say what you will about the defects of the two-party system. At least it’s not a one-party system nationally. But California increasingly is a one-party state, with Democrats dominant and Republicans down and out.
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