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Back to homepageState government is always growing
Oct. 15, 2012 Katy Grimes: It appears that California state government is thriving and growing, while private sectors businesses shrink, close, or move away from California. Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown announced another list of expensive appointments to state agencies
Read MoreCalif. govt. killing small businesses
Oct. 9, 2012 By Katy Grimes It is no secret that small businesses are losing ground in California. Every neighborhood throughout the state has stores with shuttered windows and doors. Every neighborhood can point to lost jobs and disappearing small
Read MoreClean air farce is now just a tax
Oct. 4, 2012 By Katy Grimes After several years of complying with the goals of AB 32, California’s business community is really worried. With the California Air Resources Board on the verge of launching a cap-and-trade program, California’s economy sits
Read MoreBill injects mandatory vaccines into Calif. law
Oct. 2, 2012 By Katy Grimes California’s kids receive more than 50 childhood vaccinations. However, not all parents agree with the aggressive vaccination schedule and opt out. But this option will no longer be a choice, now that a new state law
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12,744 new laws signed by Brown
Oct. 2, 2012 Katy Grimes: Whenever someone tells me what a lousy governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was, I remind then that at least he was a pretty good goalie. Schwarzenegger vetoed nearly 2,000 bills. It’s too bad he didn’t veto a
Read MoreAnother small biz bites the dust
Oct. 1, 2012 Katy Grimes: The news that another small Sacramento business is closing its doors seems only to draw yawns these days. The famed Fords Real Burgers, a local Sacramento burger joint since 1987, is being forced out of business
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Protest settlement sprays taxpayers
Oct. 1, 2012 By Katy Grimes Instead of being held accountable for bad behavior and rule-breaking during an Occupy protest on the campus of UC Davis last November, a group of college students are going to be rewarded, and receive
Read MoreCalif. business leakage is a bummer
Sept. 28, 2012 Katy Grimes: The word ‘leakage’ is the new politically correct term used by legislators, the Governor, bureaucrats and the California Air Resources Board to describe what happens when California businesses leave the state because of tax increases and
Read MoreCA Lottery: State’s cash cow
Sept. 27, 2012 Katy Grimes: I am not sure why Californians are faced with two tax increase measures this November, ostensibly to help fund California’s starving public educational system. The California Lottery, which was sold to voters as a way
Read MoreLegislative hearings attack Prop. 32
Sept. 27, 2012 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — Apparently fearing the outcome of the political reform measure Proposition 32, some California lawmakers have added “storyteller” to their resumes. In one of the most nostalgic fairy tales ever told at a
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