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Back to homepage‘Funding scheme’ or help for small business?
April 11, 2012 By Katy Grimes Does California need another small business loan guarantee program specifically for clean energy companies and agricultural businesses? California State Controller John Chiang and San Francisco Sen. Leland Yee think so. But some are questioning
Read MoreWill Calif. end double taxation of businesses?
April 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes For more than 100 years, California was known as a great manufacturing state. It could be again if a new bill passes. For decades, businesses clamored to come to the Golden State, and entrepreneurs
Read MoreCA Energy Schemes: ‘We are getting fleeced’
April 5, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board has created a stealthy new corporation in Delaware. The Western Climate Initiative Inc., which will manage cap-and-trade programs, even has its own form of currency. WCI Inc. says it exists “to perform
Read MoreCA ban on racial preferences upheld
April 3, 2012 Katy Grimes: Proposition 209, a constitutional amendment that prohibits the government from granting educational or employment preferences to individuals based on race, was surprisingly upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday. The 9th Circuit had already
Read MoreSacto Airport Another Vanity Project
April, 2, 2012 By, Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO – I’ve long mocked the Sacramento “International” Airport for not having any direct international flights. We used to have one direct flight to Cabo San Lucas. C’mon -this is Sacramento. The former Sacramento
Read MoreSneaky Govt Expansion Tax
Katy Grimes: 20,000 California teachers found pink slips in their mailboxes recently. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the termination notices are the result of a more than $10 billion deficit and decades of reckless overspending. With California’s education bureaucracy claiming
Read MoreTax and Spend, Tax and Spend
John Seiler: Shouldn’t frugality be the order of the day? The state faces a $20 budget deficit and Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing a $9 billion tax increase. Not for our Legislature! For them, the tax increases exist to waste
Read MoreCA Pols Calling For Change To U.S. Constitution
Katy Grimes: California Democrats are pushing for Congress to amend the United States Constitution, and impose limits on political corporate contributions. Really. At issue is the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision. In January 2010, the United States Supreme Court reached the landmark
Read MoreLegislators Shame Even Dick and Jane
MAR. 23, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Political gamesmanship is as old as man and politics. The levels of gamesmanship, however, can either remain at mere power struggles and turf wars, or escalate to abuses of power. With 78 empty budget
Read More‘Unemployed’ Protected From Employers
Katy Grimes: The state is trying to prevent employers from legally looking into the employment backgrounds of job applicants. A bill claiming to “protect” the unemployed from discrimination by potential employers is making its way through the Legislature. The government
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