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Back to homepageA Stake Through the Heart of Rail
Katy Grimes: Apparently tired of all of the talk and stories around the capitol and throughout the state about the need to end the money-sucking High-Speed Rail system, Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, plans on driving a wooden stake through
Read MoreBlackmail Goes Green
JAN. 10, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Anyone who tries to change the sacred texts of the California Environmental Equality Act will find out just how sacred they are and lose. Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, found that out Monday. CEQA provides
Read MoreWhy Jerry Will Kill High-Speed Rail
John Seiler: It’s High-Speed Rail fanatic Jerry Brown who himself will kill the California High-Speed Rail Authority. The reason: His first priority this year is passing his $7 billion tax increase ( which might only bring in $4.8 billion, according
Read MoreWhy Not Use Last Year’s Budget?
John Seiler: Is California sliding into the Pacific Ocean? Are there riots in the streets? Are Californians starving to death? None of the above. Then the solution to the state budget problem is simple: Just rinse and repeat the fiscal
Read More‘Inflation Tax’ Already Striking CA
JAN. 9, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Californians won’t have to wait for tax increases, such as the several that could be put before voters in the November election. One proposal is Gov. Jerry Brown’s $7 billion tax increase. Tax increases
Read MoreRedevelopment barons plot comeback
JAN. 9, 2012 I’m still giddy after the California Supreme Court ruled last month that the state had every right to shut down those noxious enemies of property rights and fiscal responsibility — redevelopment agencies. Better yet, the state’s high
Read MoreBrown’s Budget Doesn’t Add Up
Katy Grimes: After Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal was released last week, I started doing some math. Brown ‘s estimate of a $92.6 billion annual state budget just wasn’t adding up for me. Since I went to school before new
Read MoreGov.’s Groundhog Day In California
JAN. 7, 2011 It felt like “Groundhog Day” on Thursday during Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal press conference. I had a flashback to January 2011. Listening to him make the same claims about the budget that he made all year
Read MoreGov. Brown’s Budget ‘Holds Kids Hostage’
JAN. 6, 2011 By KATY GRIMES In Gov. Jerry Brown’s world, welfare recipients are cashing in, while school children continue to get short-changed. Brown released his 2012-13 budget plan Thursday, warning that spending on K-12 schools, state universities and courts
Read MoreSupreme Court Rebukes Crony Capitalism
The following first appeared in City Journal California. JAN. 6, 2012 By STEVEN GREENHUT On December 29, 2011, the California Supreme Court handed down what the state’s urban redevelopment agencies (RDAs) and their supporters called a “worst of all worlds” ruling—first upholding
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