May, 2012Assembly passes bad Cap and Trade billTuesday, May 29th, 2012 May 29, 2012 Katy Grimes: The Assembly today passed the controversial Cap and Trade bill, Assembly Bill 1532, by Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, which would deposit Cap and Trade carbon credit permit monies into a new Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account, to be managed by the California... California counting its carbon tax richesTuesday, May 29th, 2012 May 29, 2012 By Katy Grimes While the rest of the country shuns carbon trading schemes, California politicians continue to embrace the concept, and are forging ahead with a Cap and Trade carbon trading system. But eight states have dropped out of California’s Western Climate Initiative, leav... Prop 29′s “vaguely medical” purposeTuesday, May 29th, 2012 “Debacle:” Obama’s space alien movie made in CaliforniaTuesday, May 29th, 2012 May 29, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi President Barack Obama’s “stimulus” flying saucer landed in California in February 2009. This isn't something from Steven Spielberg's "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial." It's the actual description from Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New ... CA debt much larger than reportedTuesday, May 29th, 2012 May 29, 2012 By Katy Grimes Reports of California's debt usually just include the $17 billion budget deficit. But California also owes the federal government $14 billion, and public schools $10 billion. While California sputters under the massive debt, legislators continue to take up ridi... Tom Fuentes’ California Legacy ContinuesMonday, May 28th, 2012 May 28, 2012 By Brian Calle Saying goodbye to a friend is never easy. Last week was particularly difficult for many residents of Orange County and elsewhere who had known – or had their lives impacted by – Tom Fuentes. The chairman emeritus of the Orange County Republican Party fi... More perks for our government mastersSaturday, May 26th, 2012May 26, 2012 By Steven Greenhut Democrats and Republicans in the California Legislature have once again broadcast this troubling fact: they are far more concerned about the ever-expanding demands of a relatively small group of public sector union members than they are about the public welfare ... UC San Fran’ s hypocrisy on Prop. 29 campaign fundingFriday, May 25th, 2012May 25, 2012 By John Seiler I love this part of the political campaign, just before the election, because the candidates and special interests get desperate and start slinging mud at one another. The late, great columnist Mike Royko said that "mud-slinging" is really "truth-slinging." Consi... Growing CA’s education welfare systemFriday, May 25th, 2012May 25, 2012 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- Democratic Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, has been pushing unusually hard to get a tax bill passed, but it’s not looking good. There is no getting around the fact that AB 1500, a bill he's sponsoring, would impose a $1 billion tax incr... Big dairy sours on state price controlsFriday, May 25th, 2012May 25, 2012 By Joseph Perkins A civil war has broken out within California’s dairy industry, pitting milk producers against cheesemakers. The two sides are at odds over the state Department of Food and Agriculture’s valuation of whey, the liquid left after curds are separated from milk... |