Cartoon-December, 2009Donna Barstow on the budgetThursday, December 31st, 2009Good, bad and ugly initiativesThursday, December 31st, 2009Jan. 5, 2010: Any reform that will actually help fix the ongoing California government's fiscal mess (serious spending limits, pension reform, limits on union power, cutbacks in the size of state government, educational privatization, etc.) cannot possibly pass, given political realities. Anythin... Water bills threaten California prosperityThursday, December 31st, 2009By WAYNE LUSVARDI Will Southern California sell its maximum annual entitlement of 2 million acre feet of water from the State Water Project for a bundle of small water projects of uncertain yield, plus $2 billion of political pork barrel projects, if voters approve the proposed $11.1 billion Co... The Capitol’s worst-kept secretThursday, December 31st, 2009By KATY GRIMES Last August, state Sen. Pat Wiggins, D-Santa Rosa, announced that she would not seek re-election in 2010 – shortly after announcing that she would run for re-election. Her announcement occurred soon after she made an inappropriate comment at a hearing to discuss global warmin... California’s “green jobs” snow jobThursday, December 31st, 2009Jan. 5, 2010: As a news reporter and columnist for CalWatchdog, my focus is reporting stories that do not get sufficient coverage and to expose the waste, fraud and misuse of taxpayer funds buried in legislation and political practices in the state. A good example: the “green” economy in Cal... CATHY TAYLORThursday, December 17th, 2009 Taylor is Editor of Human Events, the oldest conservative weekly in the nation, and HumanEvents.com, the popular conservative website that features Human Events staff writers John Gizzi, Tony Lee and others, as well as noted conservative columnists such as Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Thomas Sowell... WILL SWAIMThursday, December 17th, 2009 Swaim is founding publisher of the OCWeekly and former publisher of LA CityBeat. FRED SMOLLERThursday, December 17th, 2009Smoller is director of the Masters of Public Administration Program at Brandman University in Irvine. KIRA FULKSWednesday, December 9th, 2009Fulks is publisher of The Forum Press, a book publishing company in Santa Ana, Calif. |