June 29, 2012 By Joseph Perkins After passage in the state Senate by a 33-4 bipartisan majority, the Assembly Education Committee bowed this week to the state’s all-too-powerful teachers unions, rejecting a bill authored by Padilla, D-Van Nuys, that would have expedited the dismissal process...
June, 2012Bid to reform teacher firing process thwartedFriday, June 29th, 2012Anti-nuke activists attack San OnofreFriday, June 29th, 2012June 29, 2012 By Joseph Perkins With San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station offline since January, Southern California Edison, the plant’s majority owner, launched an energy conservation campaign this week urging its customers to save power this summer. San Onofre’s two reactors, out of ... Democrats pluck low-hanging car dealersFriday, June 29th, 2012 June 29, 2012 By Dave Roberts For California’s Democratic legislators to take on used car salesmen is to grab the lowest of low-hanging fruit. The American people’s low opinion of the ethics and honesty of car salesmen is exceeded only by their contempt for members of Congress and lobbyist... ObamaCare decision helps a muddled GOPThursday, June 28th, 2012June 28, 2012 By Steven Greenhut From Watchdog.org The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday upholding the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health-care law was, of course, shocking given that everyone -- including, reportedly, the president and his administration ... Gov. Brown signs another fraudulent budgetThursday, June 28th, 2012 June 28, 2012 By John Seiler When he was inaugurated on Jan. 3, 2011, Gov. Jerry Brown solemnly promised in his address to the people of California: "First, speak the truth. No more smoke and mirrors on the budget. No empty promises." Instead yesterday, for the second straight year, he led t... Skelton misleads on car taxThursday, June 28th, 2012June 28, 2012 By John Seiler Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton recently was feted by liberal journos and others for reporting on California for 50 years. Actually, usually he's been just a rubber stamp for the centralized tyranny known as the California government. His latest outra... Video: Stockton Isn’t The Only California City Ready To Go BankruptWednesday, June 27th, 2012Deregulating ‘earmarks’ saved schools, didn’t hurt poorWednesday, June 27th, 2012 June 27, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Deregulation got a bad rap in California ever since it was wrongly blamed as causing the Energy Crisis of 2001 and the San Diego Blackout of 2011. But a new study by the Rand Corporation, titled “Deregulating School Aid in California: How Districts Responded... The Establishment killed cig tax Prop. 29Monday, June 25th, 2012 June 25, 2012 By John Seiler The backers of the Proposition 29 cigarette tax increase finally snubbed out the butt of their vigil over the June 5 vote. It lost by just 28,000 votes. Proponents blamed the $47 million spent by the Big Tobacco companies to defeat the measure. Lance Armstrong, ... Is pendulum swinging back on police issues?Sunday, June 24th, 2012June 25, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- It's dangerous to read too much into some small signs of sanity at the state Capitol, but the deaths in recent days of two obnoxious police-secrecy bills reminds us that there are, indeed, some limits to the groveling that California legislators w... |