The Gaines emerge as GOP heroes
CORRECTED VERSION Steven Greenhut: The redevelopment lobby — those various corporate-welfare types, bond dealers, consultants, advocates for central planning, assorted bureaucrats and other enemies of property rights — got a pretty good scare yesterday after the Legislature voted by a
Read MoreKiller cop's wrist-slap complete
Steven Greenhut: It’s shocking that Johannes Mehserle, who shot to death the unarmed Oscar Grant while Grant was lying on his face in a BART station in Oakland, goes free after serving only one year of a modest two-year sentence.
Read MoreAB 32 Turning Into Pollution Pork
JUNE 13, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Call it “pollution pork.” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been gone only five months and his most beloved legacy, AB 32, already is being cut up like an Austrian wiener schnitzel. AB 32 is the
Read MoreStockton SWAT Raid Over Student Loans
JUNE 10, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Editor’s note: This article was rewritten to reflect more recent information, which corrected some of what was reported. The evidence that America now is a full-blown police state keeps pouring in. Governments short of
Read MoreCalifornia Ranks 3rd Worst in Freedom
JUNE 9, 2011 By LAER PEARCE As fans of DC Comics know, there’s a cube-shaped planet called Bizarro, where there are stupor-heroes, Batman wears a futility belt and the Bizarro Code states, “Us do opposite of all Earthly things!” The
Read MoreState May Blow up Human Resources Box
JUNE 6, 2011 By DAVE ROBERTS Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger infamously promised to “blow up the boxes” of state government when he took office — only to leave them mostly intact and bigger and badder than ever when he exited.
Read MoreBill Puts CA Med Insurance in ER
JUNE 6, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Tough new state medical insurance regulations could pull the plug on the plans held by many California families. On Thursday, without the help of Assembly Republicans, Democrats in the Assembly passed AB 52, which
Read MoreRedevelopment 'Exception' Proves Rule
JUNE 3, 2011 This article was first published in City Journal California. By STEVEN GREENHUT Doug Tessitor is the mayor of Glendora, a city in Los Angeles County. He’s a self-described conservative and dead certain that preserving California’s redevelopment agencies
Read MoreRicci Zombeck Would Let Your Kid Drown
Commentary JUNE 3, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Alameda Fire Division Chief Ricci Zombeck (the one without the big hat) has told ABC News that he would rather let your child drown to death in the San Francisco Bay than to
Read MoreOf Course CHP Would Hide Arnold's Affair
JUNE 3, 2011 By CHRIS REED The bombshell revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver were divorcing because the former action hero and California governor had fathered a 13-year-old boy with his family’s longtime housekeeper immediately led to speculation about
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