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NEW: Jerry Brown’s deficit teeter-totter game

May 23, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Imagine a teeter-totter with a chubby boy on one end and a thin boy on the other.  The teeter-totter can be balanced either by two chubby boys or two thin boys.  It can be balanced heavy or balanced light -- eit...

NEW: Hollywood seeks more taxpayer subsidies

May 23, 2012 By Joseph Perkins The California Film Commission is holding a lottery next week for filmmakers and television producers. The lucky winners will share $100 million worth of taxpayer subsidies. It’s part of the state’s three-y...

Cap & Trade will socialize your power bill

May 22, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi The mere mention of the words Cap and Trade in California and people just tune out because it sounds too complicated to understand.   While it is complicated, it is nevertheless understandable. What we’re l...

Assembly catfight over guns

May 22, 2012 By Katy Grimes Retribution in politics isn’t unusual. Every year we witness members of the Legislature receiving punishment from party leadership, often followed by banishment to a tiny office and committee assignments taken away...

State may consider taxing services

May 22, 2012 By Dave Roberts Hold on to your wallet -- Sacramento may be hatching yet another way to reach into your pocket: a state sales tax on services. Assemblywoman Alyson Huber, D-El Dorado Hills, has authored AB 1963, which calls for a s...

American Dream Goin’ South

May 22, 2012 By John Seiler People naturally move from depressed countries to thriving countries. That's especially true when travel between the two countries is easy, as it is between the United States and Mexico. Because so many Mexicans h...
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East Bay second Cal State foundation to file questionable tax returns

May 21, 2012 By John Hrabe With 427,000 students and 44,000 staff on 23 campuses, the California State University System is the nation’s largest higher education system. But from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Cal State is raising tuition, cutting enrollment and campaigning for a multibillion-dollar tax hike — all while providing high salaries and lavish benefits to its top executives. “If the tax measures f...
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OC Grand Jury: Eliminate all special districts
Elected official pensions: target for reform?
Lawmakers mix fundraising with work in Sacramento
Gov Brown preaches tax message to church leaders
Judge affirms ruling Controller cannot block Legislator...
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NEW: How many ways can voters say ‘no’ to tax hikes?

May 23, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California city which has been trying to force a new professio...
Scott Baugh’s Continuing Hypocrisy

Steven Greenhut: If you wonder why the GOP is having such hard times, one need only look at the goin...
More liberal prattle: “We’re all one”

May 21, 2012 By Katy Grimes Too much liberal drivel in today’s newspapers passes for news as...
Good 1% vs. bad 1%

YouTubes like this give me hope that young folks are figuring out what's going on. After all, they'r...
Fuentes Was Conscience Of OC GOP

Steven Greenhut: Ever since former OC GOP Chairman Tom Fuentes' cancer returned, we all knew it was ...
Are the police taking over CA?

May 18, 2012 By Katy Grimes Legislators have just involved themselves in professional sports. ...
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