September, 2011Power Lines Fight Heads to Supreme CourtFriday, September 30th, 2011 SEPT. 30, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Next stop for Chino Hills in its fight against electricity transmission lines: the California Supreme Court. The Southern California bedroom community has spent more than $2 million fighting the lines constructed by Southern California Edison and approved by the C... Solar Execs Seek Shade from QuestionsFriday, September 30th, 2011SEPT. 30, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Solar company executives beam like a summer California sun touting their rapid growth in the past year. But they head for the shade when the topic arises of how highly subsidized the solar industry is. On everybody's mind is the failure of Solyndra, the sol... Cal State Union Calls For Mobs And BullyingThursday, September 29th, 2011 SEPT. 29, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT The California State University Employees Union is encouraging its members to intimidate people who are gathering signatures for a so-called “Paycheck Protection Initiative” that would limit the ability of unions to use automatic payroll deductions to gain... Cupcakes Upset Berkeley Diversity CrowdThursday, September 29th, 2011Editor's note: The following first appeared in City Journal. SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 By HEATHER MAC DONALD Tuesday’s now infamous affirmative-action bake sale at the University of California at Berkeley is unlikely to dissuade Gov. Jerry Brown from signing a bill that would reintroduce r... Ethically Challenged Funds Push Diversity!Wednesday, September 28th, 2011SEPT. 28, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT The nation's two largest pension funds, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), have been plagued by problems and allegations of mismanagement and even corruption in the case ... SCAG Despotism Thwarts DemocracyWednesday, September 28th, 2011 SEPT. 28, 2011 By ROY REYNOLDS Democracy means representative government. The opposite is SCAG -- the Southern California Association of Governments. In a May Fountain Valley Patch online column, I wrote, “It's complicated enough when our hierarchical government structure (city, cou... CA ‘Becoming Post-Industrial Hell’Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 SEPT. 28, 2011 By JOHN SEILER A new economic forecast released today warns, "California is fast becoming a post-industrial hell for almost everyone except the gentry class, their best servants and the public sector." The forecast is from the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting at Ca... Berkeley Hosts Affirmative Action Bake-OffTuesday, September 27th, 2011 SEPT. 27, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Despite a constitutional amendment that prohibits the government from granting educational or employment preferences to individuals based on race, the California Legislature recently passed a bill to require state colleges and universities to use race in admission... 2 Californians in Top 10 Richest in CongressTuesday, September 27th, 2011 SEPT. 27, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Two Californians made The Hill's latest list of Top Ten richest members of Congress: Republican Rep. Darrell Issa and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Altogether, five Californians made the Top 50 list. The list is one of those tedious things you have to click... Dead Poets Society Lied to UsMonday, September 26th, 2011 SEPT 26, 2011 By JOHN HRABE As a white, libertarian-leaning, middle-class kid, every scene of Dead Poets Society appealed to my maudlin sensibilities, and none more than the film’s dramatic conclusion. The school’s headmaster Mr. Nolan warns, “One more outburst from you or anybody ... |