Katy Grimes: By lunch time today, Gov. Jerry Brown finished signing the rest of the budget bills reducing state spending by an additional $15 billion, and creating a $500,000 million reserve. Without a news conference or any pomp and circumstance, Brown's office put out a press release announci...
June, 2011Honest, Painful Budget FinalizedThursday, June 30th, 2011Hemp pilot bill passes SenateThursday, June 30th, 2011 Ali Meyer: On June 29, the Senate passed Sen. Mark Leno's bill SB 676, which authorizes a pilot project for growing industrial hemp, a marjuana-related plant that provides useful products without the psychoactive properties of marijuana. The bill defines "industrial hemp" as an agricultural field ... Rex Hime paves way for split rollsThursday, June 30th, 2011Steven Greenhut: Rex Hime is president of the California Business Properties Association, a trade group representing commercial property owners, and someone who is adamantly opposed to the split-rolls tax, which would remove Prop. 13 protections from commercial property owners. Yet Hime and his asso... Union backs union candidate!Thursday, June 30th, 2011Steven Greenhut: Here's a dog-bites-man story from Orange County, where liberal Republican Todd Spitzer, a staunch union ally who foisted unsustainable pension benefits on the county as supervisor, just was endorsed by a law-enforcement association (union) for his new run for the seat. Per the Spitz... Skelton: Tax, Tax, Tax, Tax, TaxThursday, June 30th, 2011 John Seiler: In his column on the budget disaster, L.A. Times columnist George Skelton continues with his perpetual mantra: tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, ... Redevelopment is dead! Hooray!Wednesday, June 29th, 2011Steven Greenhut: The governor signed the legislation killing redevelopment. What else can I say other than hasta la vista! JUNE 29, 2011 Amazon Warns It Will Fire AffiliatesWednesday, June 29th, 2011 John Seiler: Update, 6:13 pm, June 29, 2011: Gov. Jerry "Kill Businesses" Brown just signed this jobs-killing bill. It also slams Internet commerce globally, something anyone in California should oppose because of our huge Internet companies. Brown fashions himself a hip, with-it, high-tech kind ... Left spitting mad at Jerry BrownWednesday, June 29th, 2011Steven Greenhut: Maybe the old, cantankerous and unpredictable Jerry Brown is rearing his head at the state Capitol. The governor, despite being a close ally of the labor unions, actually vetoed Darrell Steinberg's noxious SB104, which would have essentially eliminated secret elections for unions. H... John Shirey Calls The Kettle BlackWednesday, June 29th, 2011Steven Greenhut: The California Redevelopment Association's claim that the state's attempt to take money from redevelopment agencies is a form of "illegal extortion" is one of the most hypocritical and otherworldly statements I've heard in a long while. Never mind that redevelopment agencies are an ... Shallow Cuts For Lifeguard PensionsTuesday, June 28th, 2011 Katy Grimes: With the recent discovery that many Southern California lifeguards receive the same fat pensions as other "public safety" officers and fire fighters, the public outcry at the absurdity is apparently paying off. The Newport Beach City Council is scheduled to vote on a new contract for... |