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Back to homepageHayashi’s ‘Tumor’ Defense
Katy Grimes: The late Friday news reported that Castro Valley Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi has a benign brain tumor, and that is what caused her to shoplift $2,500 in clothing from Neiman Marcus in San Francisco. Interestingly, the judge assigned to
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 MoreDems Spike Prevailing Wage Reform
JAN. 5, 2012 By KATY GRIMES As work in the California Assembly began for 2012, on Wednesday the festive mood quickly was quashed. In the first committee hearing of the New Year, the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee killed two
Read MoreA Jagged Legislative Battle Ground
Katy Grimes: During Gov. Jerry Brown’s first year in office, business interests were able to kill so many bills they came out ahead, a recent news story reported. Is that so? Just how well are California businesses doing right now?
Read MoreCA Lost in Clean Energy Labyrinth
California’s entangled clean energy policy just added another program to an already convoluted, growing bureaucracy. The new program, signed into law August 2 by Gov. Brown, is supposed to assist property owners with financing for green-energy projects. While a financing component
Read MoreVoting Out the Electoral College
Creating over-reaching solutions for non-existent problems is what California legislators are good at. A textbook example of this is a bill awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature which would change the state’s Electoral College process. AB 459 passed in the Legislature in
Read MoreSacramento’s Delusions of Grandeur
Sacramento officials are still actively pursuing building a downtown sports arena and entertainment facility. Despite climbing unemployment in the region, escalating business closures, widespread home foreclosures and declining tax revenue, arena talks are in full swing. City officials have cut
Read More'Mary Kay Tax' Mugs Small Businesses
JULY 27, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Call it the Mary Kay Tax. It hits small businesses — such as Mary Kay and Avon distributors — with heavy administrative costs, while bringing a pittance to the state treasury. It’s a tax
Read MoreIn California, the Dream Is an Act
JULY 26, 2011 The California dream of an affordable, top-notch state-sponsored education for all is nothing to dream about for legal California students. Just signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown was AB 130, the “California Dream Act of 2011,”
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Redevelopment Partners In Slime
Katy Grimes: Trying to fill the thrice-vacant City Manager position, Sacramento’s City Council made a job offer to a candidate yesterday. But the politically incestuous connection local politicians have with John Shirey, the candidate and current head of the California Redevelopment
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