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Back to homepageCA Is The Worst Run State!
Katy Grimes: California might have to-die-for weather, but everything else is the Pits. A recent study was done to find the best and worst run states…and the winner is… Wyoming! The loser is… California. For the second year, 24/7 Wall
Read MoreMaybe Time to Let Governments Fail
FEB. 27, 2012 By STEVEN GREENHUT I recently documented how the state’s pro-union attorney general, Kamala Harris, crafted an unfair and dishonest title and summary for a pair of pension reform ballot initiatives submitted to her office, effectively killing the
Read MoreDems Order Private Sector Pensions
Katy Grimes: Democrats announced a new pension ponzi scheme on Thursday, under the auspices of wanting “millions of Californians to have guaranteed retirement benefits.” But the plan could be the final nail in the coffin of private industry in California. Former
Read MoreReading, Writing, and A Reuben
Katy Grimes: Reading, Writing and a Reuben sandwich is now part of the California public school curriculum, because dinner is served. Better than your own butler or personal chef, public school kids are getting three squares a day at school, but
Read MoreNot Another Teen Regulation Bill
FEB. 22, 2012 By KATY GRIMES According to legislators, teenage boys in California are violent. Therefore, only an Assembly resolution can save the unsuspecting teenage girls from the inevitable violence. February 2012 has been dubbed “Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.”
Read MoreState Edu-Welfare Expansion Plans
FEB. 21, 2012 More than 50 percent of California college students do not pay for school at the state’s public colleges and universities. Unfortunately, the dropout rate is also about 50 percent. This is because, along with all of the free
Read MoreFreeze! Drop The Lunch Box!
Katy Grimes: Last week, a 4-year old had her homemade lunch confiscated by a “state inspector.” At a North Carolina elementary school the inspector told the little girl that the lunch her mother prepared for her, consisting of a turkey and cheese sandwich,
Read MoreGuarded Optimism For CA Military
FEB. 16, 2012 By KATY GRIMES It could have been an episode of “The General, His Wife, The Staff, and the Military,” a movie about the scandal-plagued California National Guard. But instead, after four hours of grueling testimony at times,
Read MoreHas Chris Norby Gone Nuts?
Steven Greenhut: There are few politicians I admire more than Assemblyman Chris Norby, the Fullerton Republican who has battled corporate welfare, stood up against abusive government agencies and championed pension reform. But then I saw a really crazy press release
Read MoreMore ‘Rights’ For State Employees
Katy Grimes: Since public employees have so few workplace protections and are so under-paid, Democratic Assemblyman Roger Dickinson has authored legislation to give the unionized state workers more protections from workplace discipline, and priority on state government work over private sector workers. It’s
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