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Not 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.”

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State 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

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Even Dogs Have A Nanny In CA

Katy Grimes: A California state Senator has authored a bill which would regulate pet grooming and require dog groomers to pay a whopping $350 for a state-issued license. As if the state Legislature’s attempt to require helmuts for skiers and snowboarders,

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Johnson’s Big Plans May Backfire

Katy Grimes: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson has made no secret of the fact that he’d like a big, beautiful new sports arena in the city. Johnson is also still pushing for a change to the city charter to make the

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Assemblyman Defends Maxine Waters

Katy Grimes: I sat through a State Assembly session this morning wondering why I was there. It was obviously a thinly veiled excuse by legislators to capture the $142 per diem payment. There were the usual speeches honoring the recently

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Freeze! 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,

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Guarded 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,

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More ‘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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Legislature Advances Dental Socialism

FEB. 14, 2012 By KATY GRIMES As voters are growing increasingly wary of ObamaCare, the President’s nationalized healthcare plan, voters in California are also growing skeptical of legislators’ attempts to increase statewide healthcare. Fully implementing health care for all has drawn

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Californians Getting Railroaded

Katy Grimes: Regardless of cost, the Obama Administration is behind California’s plan to build a High-Speed Rail system, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. “Despite a series of a cautionary reports by outside agencies and groups, the Obama administration is

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