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Sacramento family fights seizure of child by CPS

May 24, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- A Sacramento couple recently had their baby ripped from their arms at their home by Sacramento Child Protective Services workers, with the help of local police, after telling a Sacramento hospital ...

Cap and trade could tax cities for out-of-state pollution

May 24, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Utility companies reportedly bought most of the $280 million in total pollution permits, about $162 million worth, at last week's statewide cap-and-trade auction. It was the third auction held since last Novembe...

Assembly bill would stall local pension reform efforts

May 24, 2013 By Katy Grimes A bill to make it nearly impossible for local ballot initiatives to reform generous labor pensions was passed by the Assembly Thursday by a 50-18 vote. AB 822 by Assemblyman Isadore Hall, D-Los Angeles, woul...

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...

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 ...
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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: Jerry Brown disguises fear of CTA with pretentious babble

May 25, 2013 By Chris Reed James Fallows of The Atlantic has written a long and entertaining e...
NEW: Obama regime targeted conservatives and libertarians beginning in 2008

May 25, 2013 By John Seiler It's now coming out that President Obama's regime began targeting ...
Why do we need govt.? Dept.

May 24, 2013 By John Seiler Governments tell us we need to pay high taxes to them so they can ...
Downside of costly energy dawning on Europe. CA next?

May 24, 2013 By Chris Reed One of the most befuddling things about being a public-policy watch...
Shake, rattle and roll in Nor Cal

May 23, 2013 By Katy Grimes Earthquake! Tonight in Sacramento, we felt the rumblings of a ...
One more Obamacare snafu

May 23, 2013 By Katy Grimes There is yet one more snafu in the Obamacare health care law -...
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