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Getting cable and watching the political animals

July 26, 2012 By John Seiler I’ve always been reluctant to get cable TV because it’s a big time waste. The Internet and a land-line phone are all I need, through Verizon’s FIOS fiberoptic system. Plus a cheap T-Mobile flip

Gov. Brown legislating by legacy and vanity

CalWatchdog Staff July 26, 2012

July 26, 2012 By Katy Grimes First there was the bullet train to nowhere. Now there are the tunnels to nowhere. Gov. Jerry Brown is hell-bent on creating a legacy. Unfortunately, it also appears that most of California’s legislators make

Affirmative action shakedown of CA insurance industry

CalWatchdog Staff July 25, 2012

July 24, 2012 By Katy Grimes Despite the anti-affirmative action wave that has washed over America, affirmative action policies are thriving in government. Most people say they believe that no one in America should receive preference in education, jobs or government

Convention time: How badly off is the CA GOP?

CalWatchdog Staff July 25, 2012

July 25, 2012 By John Seiler Just ahead of its “fall” convention in beautiful downtown Burbank on Aug. 10-12, the CA GOP is in a tiff with the New York Times over the status of the party in the Pyrite

Leftists attack Prop. 32 campaign reform

CalWatchdog Staff July 24, 2012

Commentary July 24, 2012 By John Seiler Anyone who observes California politics knows that the government-worker unions dominate the state from top to bottom. They forced union pension spiking on the state a decade ago, leading to the spate of

CA chickens coming home to roost

CalWatchdog Staff July 24, 2012

July 23, 2012 Katy Grimes: A fourth California city is on the verge of bankruptcy. What a surprise. Yawn. The news that Compton is about to file for federal bankruptcy protection is not surprising. But news that Santa Monica may also

State parks director: negligent or incompetent?

CalWatchdog Staff July 20, 2012

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

Gov seals CA crash with high-speed rail bill

CalWatchdog Staff July 19, 2012

July 19, 2012 By Katy Grimes Even though high-speed rail has become nothing more than a pipeline project for grabbing big money and a big lie, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the rail bill Wednesday, sealing California’s economic fate. Because of the

Anti-democracy bill guts California open-government laws

CalWatchdog Staff July 18, 2012

July 18, 2012 By Katy Grimes Buried deep within the new state budget lies a bill so evil, so corrupt and so illegal, a state agency is now being declared an official “enemy of the people” by weary taxpayers. The

California’s credit rating could get even worse

CalWatchdog Staff July 17, 2012

July 17, 2012 By Joseph Perkins California’s rock-bottom credit rating has been attributed in some quarters to the state’s most recent economic downturn, from which Gov. Jerry Brown said this past spring, “We are still recovering.” But a new study