Sept. 28, 2012 By Joseph Perkins The Western Hemisphere’s largest seawater desalination plant moved a huge step closer to actually being built with the tentative agreement Thursday by the San Diego County Water Authority to buy all the water produced by the Carlsbad plant’s private develop...
September, 2012Yes to DesalinationFriday, September 28th, 2012McClintock: The adult in the roomTuesday, September 25th, 2012 Sept. 25, 2012 By Katy Grimes I've written much recently about the end of the two-year legislative session in the California Legislature -- none of it flattering. This Democrat-dominated Legislature operates as if it has the collective maturity level of a teenage girl. Fortunately, foll... Unhappy Californians unwilling to changeMonday, September 24th, 2012Sept. 24, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- California residents are depressed about the economy and see little hope for change in the near future, yet they seem more reluctant than ever to change the current high-tax, union-dominated political course that has led to the struggling economy... Prop. 35 and the war on sex traffickingFriday, September 21st, 2012Sept. 21, 2012 By Joseph Perkins Chris Kelly deserves a lot of credit. He’s the former Facebook executive who co-authored Proposition 35, the Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act, which proposes to ramp up punishment of sex traffickers. Kelly told the San Jose Mercury-News t... California burns as politicians fiddleTuesday, September 18th, 2012 Sept. 18, 2012 By Katy Grimes The most recent culmination of the insane end of the California Leguslature's two-year session will probably live in infamy when tales of California's demise are told in the future. Still reeling from the madness, I needed to seek out a perspective larger tha... Chicago teachers stifle reformMonday, September 17th, 2012 Sept. 17, 2012 By Steven Greenhut Chicago's public school teachers went on strike last week over a modest plan to extend their work day and subject them to the type of standardized performance testing they typically administer to students. The walkout provided a fresh reminder that teachers... Still no competitive electionsFriday, September 14th, 2012Sept. 14, 2012 By Joseph Perkins For much of the baseball season, I’ve been following Sports Illustrated’s weekly rankings of all 30 major league baseball clubs. But I stopped following back in July when it ranked the Boston Red Sox, not even leading its division, the sixth best team in... Brown, Dem Leg ignore aftermathMonday, September 10th, 2012 Sept. 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes What could anyone say to California's Democratic lawmakers to make them stop destroying the state? Faced with 700 new bills of potential laws and regulations on his desk, Gov. Jerry Brown can be part of the problem, or part of the solution. Brown likes to re... Totalitarians run CaliforniaMonday, September 10th, 2012 Sept. 10, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- The main problem with the California Legislature is not that it spends your money far faster than it comes in, or that much of it is squandered on absurd programs and on the enrichment of those Californians who work for the state. Those are sympt... CA better off than four years ago?Friday, September 7th, 2012 Sept. 7, 2012 By Joseph Perkins I really didn’t need to watch President Obama’s speech last night -- although I did -- to know how it would be reviewed by his cheerleaders in the mainstream media. To hear them tell it, it was the greatest speech since, perhaps, the Gettysburg Address, i... |