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Back to homepageYet another computer fiasco in home of Silicon Valley
Feb. 9, 2013 By Chris Reed Friday’s news that state Controller John Chiang had fired the second contractor hired to upgrade the state government’s computer payroll system for incompetence and poor work — a few years after the first contractor
Read MoreLegislature assaults ‘right to keep and bear arms’
Feb. 8, 2013 By John Seiler Add infringement of the Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms” to a severe anti-business climate as a reason to get out of Dodge, Calif. The Democratic Supermajority in the state Legislature is
Read MoreTexas vs. California: What smug Fresno Bee doesn’t mention
Feb. 7, 2013 By Chris Reed The war of words between Gov. Jerry Brown and his Texas counterpart, Rick Perry, over California’s business climate has led to the usual snide comments about the Lone Star State from the media annex
Read MoreScandal ‘boring’? Arrogant Jerry Brown drinks his own Kool-Aid
Feb. 6, 2013 By Chris Reed Sacramento is still buzzing over a bizarre and obnoxious scandal in which state parks officials hid $54 million while pressing to close 70 parks, and along comes another scandal in which Cal Fire hides
Read MorePoliticians, media distort economic facts
Feb. 6, 2013 By Katy Grimes The U.S. economy lost more than 1.4 million jobs between December and January. But it’s almost impossible to find any reports in the mainstream media about this. Instead, the media primarily have reported on reduced
Read MoreDisinvest in higher education
Feb. 5, 2013 By Joseph Perkins College is overrated. That’s the ineluctable conclusion to be drawn from a new study published by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The study’s co-authors, Richard Vedder, Jonathan Robe and Christopher Denhart, examined
Read MoreDespite Prop. 30, CA revenues likely to miss the mark – again
Feb. 4, 2013 By Josephine Djuhana Will Gov. Jerry Brown get all the revenue increases he wants from Proposition 30, which voters passed last November? Brown recently said in an interview with Jeremy Hobson of Marketplace Morning Report that Prop.
Read MoreGov. Brown, legislators fight over Prop. 39 funds for schools
Feb. 3, 2013 By Dave Roberts Gov. Jerry Brown declared at the start of his State of the State address, “We have wrought in just two years a solid and enduring budget.” But in recent legislative hearings, the Legislative Analyst’s Office charged
Read MoreCalifornia a model for other states?
Feb. 3, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — California’s modern-day progressive Democrats keep crowing about the huge success they’ve had in taming the state’s budget deficit, thanks to Proposition 30‘s tax increases and other “reforms,” and now are championing the
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Video: Good news: 3/4 of Americans distrust the federal govt.
Feb. 1, 2013 By John Seiler Some good news: As Judy Woodruff reports, 73 percent of Americans distrust the U.S. government., that relentless tyrant that controls, robs and ruins our lives. This is an opportunity for Republicans. They have been
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