April, 2011DiFi Misleads Dem ConventionSaturday, April 30th, 2011 John Seiler: At this weekend's convention in Sacramento of the California Democratic Party, Sen. Dianne Feinstein attacked Republicans and Tea Partiers for wrecking the country. True enough, Republicans bear much of the blame. They held the presidency from 2001 to 2008. And they ran the full C... Can Business Recovery Be Legislated?Thursday, April 28th, 2011 Katy Grimes: It's so exciting that fast food giant Carl's Jr. plans on opening 300 new fast food restaurants! Wow. That's such good news for the economy. Unfortunately for California, the restaurants will be opening in Texas. Carl's Jr. CEO Andy Pudzner explained the economics of CKE Restau... Mono County: 59% Vacancy RateThursday, April 28th, 2011 John Seiler: Here's what's really going on in California -- while Gov. Jerry Brown, the Democrats in the Legislature and the government-worker unions are plotting how to tax us more to preserve plush union pensions. Reports Yahoo Finance: American Ghost Towns of the 21st Century There are sever... Starve GOP Districts Of State FundsThursday, April 28th, 2011Katy Grimes: In a room full of Capitol journalists at the Sacramento Press Club lunch meeting Wednesday, Democratic Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg began down a road that should have frozen the insides of everyone in attendance. But even journalists get desensitized to political rhetoric... Mass. Dems Might Curb Union PowerWednesday, April 27th, 2011 John Seiler: When Republicans in Wisconsin and Ohio took away some collective-bargaining rights of government-worker unions, we were warned that freedom was over; that the workers' democratic rights had been suppressed. Supportive demonstrations were held all across the country, including Califor... Rail Authority “Ineffective”Wednesday, April 27th, 2011Katy Grimes: When a lawmaker admits that an agency created from a bond measure that he supported and help get passed has grown ineffective and needs a serious makeover, it is evident that there is a problem. Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal has authored a bill to overhaul the High Speed Rail Autho... L.A. Times Goes Tax BerserkWednesday, April 27th, 2011 John Seiler: The L.A. Times' tax obsession goes back decades. I remember back when George Deukmejian was governor (1982-1990), the Times was especially fanatical about increasing taxes. So one of the governor's advisers sent the Times management an unofficial bill for its share of the new taxes t... Latinos Identify as ConservativeTuesday, April 26th, 2011 John Seiler: One of the curious findings of the weekend's L.A. Times/USC poll was that Latinos call themselves "conservative" by 40 percent, "moderate" percent 32 and "liberal" 23 percent. See Question 74. That means Latinos are more conservative that whites, who identified that way by 36 perc... Helmut Hair No MoreMonday, April 25th, 2011 Katy Grimes: Five different attempts at repealing California's motorcycle helmet law have been defeated by the Legislature, but that isn't stopping Republican Assemblyman Chris Norby (Fullerton), who is making one more attempt to exempt motorcycle riders over the age of 21, from mandatory helmet la... Mansoor Changes His Lame StoryMonday, April 25th, 2011Steven Greenhut: Assemblyman Allan Mansoor, R-Costa Mesa, told me and others that he decided to vote to save the state's noxious redevelopment agencies because he saw some poison pill language in the governor's RDA-elimination bill. That was always a crock -- the bill merely continued the same exist... |