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Back to homepageBrown: Proving The ‘Declinists’ Wrong
JAN. 18, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Was it Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State address today? Or the “more show than substance” address, as some lawmakers dubbed it? Brown defended High-Speed Rail, pushed for implementation of AB 32, touted economic
Read MoreKnow Your ‘Rich’ Economic History
Katy Grimes: In order to fully comprehend how California residents will be impacted even more by Democrats in the near future, we need to look at the economic condition of the entire country, and put our economic history into context. Under the
Read More‘Grassroots’ Looks Like This
Katy Grimes: TIME magazine recently announced the 2011 Person of the Year was “the Protestor.” American protestors conjure up all kinds of images, from the Occupy Wall Street Protestors, striking union nurses, teamsters, to university students occupying the library at UC
Read MoreCA GOP Going to Elephant Graveyard?
JAN. 17, 2012 Many in the media say that Republicans are rapidly becoming irrelevant in California, and will become nothing more than an afterthought after the next election. Even a Capitol press club, made up of declining “old media” newspaper,
Read MoreHigh-Speed Platinum Contracts
JAN. 13, 2012 By KATY GRIMES It’s like a runaway train pushing a side a cow on the tracks. Controversy over the $98.5 billion-dollar-and-growing price tag? Move aside! The California High-Speed Rail Authority held a seemingly “regular” monthly meeting in Los
Read MoreWhistleblower Bill Advances in Leg
JAN. 11, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Each year, thousands of California state employees do the right thing by exposing government waste and fraud. But not in the state Capitol in Sacramento, according to Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena. At an Assembly
Read MoreA 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 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 MoreRT Brain Trust Rides Again
Katy Grimes: The brain trust at Sacramento Regional Transit have bested themselves – they are now going to charge transit users for parking at some of Sacramento’s light rail stations. This is such a brilliant plan to send light rail
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