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NEW: Voyeurism bill shut down

March 9, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Fulfilling a request by the Riverside County District Attorney, Assembly member Kevin Jeffries, R-Lake Elsinore, introduced legislation last month requiring any person convicted of inappropriate sexual filming offenses to register as a sex offender. AB 1688, “...

NEW: California’s jobs crash worsens

March 9, 2010 By JOHN SEILER In some of the articles I’ve written for CalWatchdog, I’ve devised new ways of looking at policies and their consequences, such as my “California Jobs Gap” calculation here and here. It showed that California’s unemployment rate was much higher than the n...

Initiative targets cap-and-trade

March 5, 2010 By KATY GRIMES California’s version of “cap-and-trade” is under attack – again. But this time, it’s in the form of a ballot initiative, and not proposed legislation that has thus far, been easily killed. Cap-and-trade, measures created to reduce global warming, were ...
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State fails to track hot waste

March 8, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Buried within the $3 billion state Department of Public Health is a tiny, troubled agency that deals with some of the most toxic and dangerous substances in the history of the world. Headquartered on Capit...
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AB32 vs. jobs

The nonpartisan -- and, in my experience, professional and objective -- Legislative Analyst confirms...

Legislators Allow Another Enviro...

When the word "mitigate" is used repeatedly in a legislative hearing, and written extensively into t...

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Steven Greenhut

Feel like cussing...
March 7, 2010 California's union-dominated, Dem...
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Katy Grimes

Public Versus...
Mar. 2, 2010 The recent stories of state worker...
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Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters has been cove...
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