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Back to homepageLegislators pass bill to regulate BB guns
Aug. 22, 2012 By Katy Grimes “They’ll have to pry my BB gun from my cold, dead arms,” one commenter wrote on the legislative web page for AB 2333. The bill, by Assemblyman Jose Solorio, D-Anaheim, will require parents to
Read MoreAttack on corporations fails in Assembly
Aug. 22, 2012 By Katy Grimes It’s rare that a bad bill fails to pass one or the other houses in the California Legislature. However, Tuesday a bill failed which would have required private sector, publicly traded corporations to file
Read MoreReport: carbon emissions lowest in 20 years!
Aug. 17, 2012 Katy Grimes: Apparently the big news that the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the United States has fallen to the lowest level in 20 years, hasn’t yet reached the desk of Mary Nichols,
Read MoreUnion pushing audit of CSU Extension ed
Aug. 16, 2012 By Katy Grimes The Joint Legislative Audit Committee hearing last week was a mini civics lesson in what is going on in state politics, and what bad policy the state’s special-interest groups and labor unions are continually
Read MoreRobbing business to pay for education
August 14, 2012 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — Even in California, there are lawmakers who recognize that the “Middle Class Scholarship” bill is just one more attempt to tax businesses to help expand California’s growing education welfare system. AB 1500, by
Read MoreCARB audit request killed by Democrats
Aug. 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board seems to be on everyone’s list of what not to do in state government. Charged with implementing AB 32, the California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, CARB is
Read MoreHearing: Bulk of school spending will go to construction
Aug. 8, 2012 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — Lawmakers say they want to help California’s failing schools. They say they are concerned about the dropout rate and low test scores in California’s public schools. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom
Read MoreSpare the air; don’t breathe
August 1, 2012 Katy Grimes: As part of the campaign against the automobile, California’s air quality management districts are currently advertising that because of the summer heat, the air quality is bad. Their answer is ‘don’t drive.’ What a great
Read MoreCalif. regs killing lumber manufacturers
July 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes California’s private forest lands are some of the most productive in the world. But state regulation of timber harvesting practices have become so overbearing and complex that the industry is losing lumber manufacturers by
Read MoreDominant Dems rule and ruin Sacto
July 30, 2012 By Katy Grimes As Democrats have taken over most of the Golden State, an ugly attitude has crept in. This bad attitude is demonstrative of what’s wrong with today’s Democrats, and why they get called Socialists. They
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