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NEW: Swimming pool regs could kill summer fun

May 16, 2012 By Katy Grimes With cities all over the state closing community swimming pools because of budget cuts, a California lawmaker is pushing a bill requiring owners of public swimming pools to employ a "pool operator." California...

NEW: Calif. US. Senate candidates blast GOP endorsement

May 16, 2012 By Dave Roberts In California, there are three certainties: death, taxes and the re-election of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In 2006, she shellacked Dick Mountjoy by 24 points. In 2000, she trounced Tom Campbell by 19 points. The gran...

NEW: California slouches towards ban on foie gras

May 16, 2012 By Joseph Perkins Josiah Citrin, owner and chef at Melisse Santa Monica, hosted a special seven-course tasting last night at his Michelin award-winning restaurant. Each dish was prepared by celebrated chefs from around the state us...

JP Morgan fiasco means higher interest rates ahead

May 15, 2012 By Chriss Street If there was an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award for the best acting performance by a CEO, Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan Bank would surely win the Oscar for his dismissal of a $2 billion off-shore der...

Bullet Trains, Green Jobs and ‘The War Between Data and Storytelling’

May 15, 2012 By Chris Reed SAN DIEGO -- The smug, insufferably superior politics of the faculty lounge have gone mainstream on the Left in the past decade to the point where many “progressive” pundits and Democratic lawmakers openly act as ...

Has Jerry Brown’s budget deficit become a cliche?

May 15, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Has California’s legendary structural budget deficit evolved into an overworked and obsolescent cliche? This is a question to be asked of Gov. Jerry Brown announcement yesterday that the state general fund bu...
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Brown’s new budget attacks producers

May 14, 2012 By John Seiler Gov. Jerry Brown's May Revise to his 2012-13 budget proposal, released today, only will club more producers into leaving the state. It calls for $8.5 billion in tax increases from the initiative he is placing before voters on the November ballot. Most of the tax increase will come from increasing the top income tax rate by 3 percentage points. It would go from the current 10.3 percen...
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NEW: They just don’t get it…

May 16, 2012 By John Seiler' "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," said T.S. Eliot. Nowda...

NEW: Obama golf goofs

May 16, 2012 By John Seiler Our friend Mike Shelton sent another great cartoon:

NEW: Democrats jeopardize $1.3 billion in federal funds

May 15, 2012 By Katy Grimes It appears that Democrats aren't really sincere or even serious a...

NEW: Pension deniers attempt to shame reform advocates

May 16, 2012 By Brian Calle If you have not read or heard anything about California's unfunded...

Walter Russell Mead calls Calif. a ‘failed state’

May 15, 2012 By John Seiler One centrist Democrat I've read for years is Walter Russell Mead. ...

Former CA Assemblyman Chuck DeVore gives inside scoop on state budget deficit

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Homeless man’s death stirred a furor
May 14, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SA...
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Katy Grimes

Marin County joins Dark Side of Force
May 11, 2012 By Katy Grimes When y...
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How to save state parks from closure
May 11, 2012 By Joseph Perkins A p...
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