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Hollywood-Style Rail Pander

Katy Grimes: In the OMG category, I caught a 30 second commercial tonight on a local Sacramento television channel that asked, “Wanna go to the Grammys? Get your creative juices flowing and create a 30 second commercial about the excitement

Initiative Would Bring Back Part-Time Leg

CalWatchdog Staff January 24, 2012

JAN. 24, 2012 By KATY GRIMES A ballot initiative planned for the November ballot could result in fewer bills coming out of the Capitol, potentially saving California taxpayers and business owners “tens of millions of dollars.” Despite widespread disapproval of

SMUD’s Creative Rate Increase Lingo

CalWatchdog Staff January 23, 2012

Katy Grimes: The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is changing some of its rate terminology in order to charge higher rates. The utility company claims that it really is “an effort to better define for customers what they are paying for and

Big Savings With Part-Time Leg.

CalWatchdog Staff January 23, 2012

Katy Grimes: Limiting the Legislature to only 95 days each year and $18,000 per year salaries would save the state tens of millions of dollars per year, according to a new report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office. Currently the

Sacramento’s Sinking Economy

CalWatchdog Staff January 20, 2012

Katy Grimes: How far does Sacramento have to fall before its citizens show some inkling of caring? A new Brookings Institution study shows just how far out of touch Sacramento is economically, with the rest of the country and major

Elmer Fudd Translates Jerry’s Speech

CalWatchdog Staff January 19, 2012

John Seiler: To help us better understand, here’s Elmer Fudd translating Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State speech for us: As weqwiwed by the state constitution, I am wepowting to you this mowning on the condition of ouw state.

Biased Title for Jerry’s Tax Initiative

CalWatchdog Staff January 18, 2012

John Seiler: Get a load of this title AG Kamala Harris gave Gov. Jerry Brown’s $7 billion tax-hike initiative: “TEMPORARY TAXES TO FUND EDUCATION. GUARANTEED LOCAL PUBLIC SAFETY FUNDING.” That should trick a couple hundred California voters into voting for

Brown: Proving The ‘Declinists’ Wrong

CalWatchdog Staff January 18, 2012

JAN. 18, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Was it Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State address today? Or the “more show than substance” address, as some lawmakers dubbed it? Brown defended High-Speed Rail, pushed for implementation of AB 32, touted economic

‘Grassroots’ Looks Like This

CalWatchdog Staff January 17, 2012

Katy Grimes: TIME magazine recently announced the 2011 Person of the Year was “the Protestor.” American protestors conjure up all kinds of images, from the Occupy Wall Street Protestors, striking union nurses, teamsters, to university students occupying the library at UC

CA GOP Going to Elephant Graveyard?

Katy Grimes January 17, 2012

JAN. 17, 2012 Many in the media say that Republicans are rapidly becoming irrelevant in California, and will become nothing more than an afterthought after the next election. Even a Capitol press club, made up of declining “old media” newspaper,