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$Rick Perry returns to woo CA businesses$

Rick Perry returns to woo CA businesses

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is returning next week to the Golden State. Maybe this time, California Gov. Jerry Brown will take him seriously. Perry made a four-day recruiting trip to California in February of last year, visiting San Francisco,

D.C. can’t even provide itself with clean water

John Seiler March 7, 2014

Washington, D.C. rules California, America — the world. Yet this from the Washington Post: “Residents and business owners in parts of upper Northwest Washington are being advised to continue boiling their water through Friday after a pumping station lost power,

Lawmakers lighting up $2 per pack cigarette tax hike

Katy Grimes February 7, 2014

Like a re-lit cigarette, smoke again is rising from Senate Bill 768. By state Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, the bill would place a new tax on cigarettes of $2 a pack, with an equivalent tax on cigars, pipe tobacco

‘Transportation justice’ in CA helps the poor buy electric cars

Katy Grimes February 5, 2014

The year 2014 sees California helping poor people buy electric cars, what’s called “transportation justice.” SB 359 is by state Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro. It approved a loan for $30 million to help finance low-income residents to transition away from older,

Constitutional amendment seeks to revoke Prop. 209 racial preferences ban

Katy Grimes February 4, 2014

SACRAMENTO — The battle over racial preferences is heating up again in California. Senate Constitutional Amendment 5, by state Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, was just introduced in the Legislature. It would allow the University of California and California State

‘Ghost guns’ could be an apparition in CA

Katy Grimes February 4, 2014

When 3D-printed guns first emerged on the scene, many predicted the “ghost guns” could render the regulation of guns pointless. The creation of the 3-D gun is only about one year old. The first 3D-printed gun initially was fired in

Water bill in Congress ‘puts families before fish’

Katy Grimes February 4, 2014

A bill to address California’s drought and future water supply in the House of Representatives has Gov. Jerry Brown angry. Brown said the water bill is “an unwelcome and divisive intrusion” into California’s effort to manage the state’s drought, the

Legislature targets BB guns

Katy Grimes January 30, 2014

SACRAMENTO — Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed 11 gun control bills into law and vetoed seven. More gun bills are on the firing line this year — even banning some BB guns. On Jan. 28, the California Senate passed Senate

Health Dept. shuts down 11-year old’s cupcake biz

Katy Grimes January 30, 2014

If there was ever a stark reminder of our over-abundant government, the story of 11-year old Chloe Stirling who ran a mini cupcake business in Troy, Ill. has been shut down by callous bureaucrats. Chloe Stirling is a young entrepreneur, and embodies the

Bill to save beach bonfires passes Assembly

Katy Grimes January 28, 2014

For many state residents, roasting marshmallows over a beach fire ring is as Californian as surfing and the Beach Boys. Yet in recent years the rings have come under fire for producing smoke and noise. The California Assembly voted unanimously