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Towns take heat from proposed taxes targeting streaming video
Tempting fate — and mobilized outrage from consumers and their Silicon Valley allies — municipalities around California have zeroed in on a new source of revenue: Online film and television streaming services, and the people who use them. “If the cities are successful
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Pasadena struck with Bell-like scandal
Pasadena has a reputation of being run by good-government liberals. But now it’s immersed in a scandal that could rival that of Bell and its infamous former administrator, Robert Rizzo. The Pasadena Star News reported, “Los Angeles County District Attorney’s
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Appeals court backs property rights
Pasadena is known for its famous tree-lined streets. It now also may be known for the trees becoming the key in the first case in California to establish that a city’s urban forestry programs can be subject to “inverse condemnation”
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CA green power keeps shifting costs to ratepayers
California Energy Markets recently reported that three California cities just won agreement from regulators to reclassify solar power transmission costs as distribution. The cities are Pasadena, Riverside and Azusa. That means the cities reaped a 25 percent reduction in long-term solar power contracts. This seemingly arcane
Read MoreRose Parade runs over taxpayers
Dec. 27, 2012 By John Hrabe The world didn’t end in 2012, but several municipalities did. Four California cities, Stockton, Atwater, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes, declared bankruptcy this year. One financial expert described the problem as “spreading like a
Read MoreHow federal ‘stimulus’ didn’t help California’s economy
Sept. 13, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi How has the stimulus program of President Obama affected California? Have things gotten better? We can see the answer for the whole state by looking in detail at how stimulus money was spent in
Read MoreMunger’s Tax Increase Doesn’t Add Up
MARCH 14, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Molly Munger’s proposed $10 billion school tax for the Nov. 2012 ballot had to be designed by a billionaire. It’s hard to know whether Munger designed the ballot initiative for the “Make a Wish
Read MoreGroup Misuses Veterans on Memorial Day
MAY 30, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California has now reached the place where satire is no longer possible. Irish priest Jonathan Swift’s 1959 satire, “A Modest Proposal,” suggested that the problem of overpopulation in Ireland be solved by feeding Irish
Read MorePublic Pensions Crowding Out Services
APRIL 12, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A Chinese folk tale tells of a sculptor that placed fake money on a tree to trick villagers into cutting it down for him. But so many people believed the tree to be sacred
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