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CA advances driver’s licenses for illegals

Despite incomplete approval from the federal government, California has begun forging ahead with driver’s licenses for immigrants who are illegally present in California. A bill signed into law last year, Assembly Bill 60, was subject to additional requirements by the Department

VIDEO: Is California becoming the boring state?

CalWatchdog Staff October 20, 2014

Demographics are not on the side of the Golden State. The people we need to live here are leaving. Reason Magazine’s Editor Matt Welch joins CalWatchdog’s James Poulos to talk about his greatest fear of all: California gets boring.

Covered CA caught in Prop. 45 crossfire

James Poulos October 20, 2014

On Proposition 45, some Democrats are feeling as if they got a transfusion of the wrong blood type. The initiative would give the state insurance commissioner the power to approve changes in health-insurance policies, including those by Covered California, this state’s implementation

VIDEO: Can the GOP build a better brand by embracing unions?

CalWatchdog Staff October 18, 2014

We may be experiencing a libertarian moment, but are blue collar workers the secret to give this moment a lasting impact? The Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Moore joins CalWatchdog’s James Poulos to discuss a new political alliance to challenge the supporters

CA voters may upend national crime policy again

James Poulos October 16, 2014

Thanks to a new ballot measure, Proposition 47, voters in California could soon eliminate the last vestiges of the state’s tough-on-crime reputation. In a sea change from the 1990s, when high-profile, grisly crimes seized the state’s attention, Californians have helped drive the

VIDEO: Gov. Brown’s High-Speed Boondoggle Chugs On

CalWatchdog Staff October 16, 2014

Why would Gov. Brown make high-speed rail a budget priority? The Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Moore joins CalWatchdog’s James Poulos to discuss better transportation options that would actually serve the needs of Californians.

Voters face pension-reform decisions

James Poulos October 14, 2014

In a series of contests playing out at the state and local levels, Golden State voters will cast votes this November that could reshape the pension landscape for years to come. Races have attracted attention for offices that exercise direct influence over the institutions

Covered CA blames cronyism on Obamacare scramble

James Poulos October 13, 2014

In an embarrassing new black eye for Covered California, the state’s implementation of Obamacare, the health exchange, has admitted it violated accepted practice by awarding $184 million in so-called “no-bid” contracts, according to a new report by the Associated Press.

VIDEO: The millennial mind: Fiscally conservative & socially liberal?

CalWatchdog Staff October 13, 2014

The Reason Foundation’s Emily Ekins talks to James Poulos about the findings from a recent poll that suggest millennials are political hybrids who don’t abide by traditional stereotypes.

VIDEO: Will battle tanks replace think tanks?

CalWatchdog Staff October 11, 2014

Politics is a contact sport, so is it time for think tanks to transition from academic institutions to partisan brawlers? Stephen Moore, chief economist and the Heritage Foundation and Orange County Register columnist, shares his views with CalWatchdog.com’s James Poulos.