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NEW: CA Parents opposing national Common Core school standards

May 23, 2013 By Warren Duffy Earlier this month, a rally sponsored by Citizens Against Common Core was held in Sacramento on the steps of the Capitol. What is Common Core? In a nutshell, it's a new, top-down national educational program that Ca...

NEW: Crazifornia: Still more Cali-Incompetence on the Bay Bridge

May 23, 2013 By Laer Pearce It’s been almost a quarter century -- 23 years, seven months and five days, to be exact – since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake knocked out a section of the eastern span of the Oakland Bay Bridge, causing one of ...

David Crane’s budget ideas spark debate

Commentary May 22, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi David Crane has come up with a tax reform proposal, “Jerry Brown’s Last Chance to Save California.” A Democrat, he was an economic adviser to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, especially on ...

CA State Hospitals flout legislative process

May 22, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- The Department of State Hospitals appears to be flouting the legislative process. Instead of getting legislative approval for a $50 million expansion, they've been implementing the changes since Feb...

Taxpayers subsidizing desert solar energy

May 21, 2013 By Warren Duffy What is going on with the California based Ivanpah solar plant? In April 2011, Brightsource Energy received a loan guarantee of $1.6 billion from the Department of Energy for the California-based Ivanpah project...

Assembly bill would extend ‘cradle-to-career’ state education

May 21, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- Some California educators want to educate your children "cradle-to-career." In support of President Obama's proposal to significantly increase federal spending on early childhood education and c...
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California’s prison guards lock up reforms

May 21, 2013 By Sagar Jethani After being threatened with contempt by a panel of federal judges for failing to sufficiently reduce the number of prisoners in California's jails, Gov. Jerry Brown reluctantly unveiled a plan this month to further reduce the Golden State's overcrowded prisons by another 9,000 inmates. Enthusiasm in Sacramento was in short supply. Brown argued that court orders were forcing h...
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NEW: One more Obamacare snafu

May 23, 2013 By Katy Grimes There is yet one more snafu in the Obamacare health care law -...
NEW: IRS attacks survivor of Japanese internment camp

May 23, 2013 By John Seiler How low did the IRS go in assaulting free Americans? About as low ...
NEW: Prediction: CTA to play good cop/bad cop on Brown school $ plan

May 23, 2013 By Chris Reed The California Teachers Association has taken a lot of hits of late...
Apple right to avoid ridiculous taxes

May 22, 2013 By John Seiler Apple Inc. is the world's most profitable and admired company. It'...
Bridge debacle foreshadows bullet train mega-debacle

May 22, 2013 By Chris Reed Mankind has been building bridges for more than 3,000 years. A brid...
Noon today: Tea Party protests against abusive IRS

Update 8:30 pm: The protests have occurred. Please post below any reports of protests you attend...
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