Dec. 30, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- California’ Democratic leaders are giddy about the future now that they have gained everything they wanted in the last election -- voter-approved tax increases and a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, thus rendering Re...
December, 201210 predictions for California 2013Sunday, December 30th, 2012Solar power fries ratepayersSaturday, December 29th, 2012Dec. 29, 2012 By Joseph Perkins Most lawmakers in Sacramento have no idea who Robert K. Merton was. But they almost certainly are familiar with terms the late great American social scientist introduced into the popular lexicon, including “unintended consequences.” An apt example of ... CA lawmakers take aim at gunsMonday, December 24th, 2012 Dec. 24, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO – It took only days before California's legislators reacted to the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy with a fusillade of bills designed to take California closer to Democratic leaders' unstated but obvious goal: making it essentially il... California encourages business flightFriday, December 21st, 2012 Dec. 21, 2012 By Joseph Perkins Employees at Chevron’s San Ramon corporate headquarters received an unexpected email yesterday. It notified them that a quarter of their jobs are being moved from California to Texas. The oil giant, the Golden State’s largest corporation, offered no detai... More ‘educators,’ less educationMonday, December 17th, 2012Dec. 17, 2012 By Katy Grimes I attended California public schools, kindergarten through college, starting in the late 1960s through the mid 1980s. While I don’t claim to have received a brilliant education, I did receive a solid liberal arts education. This is especially true when my public ... Much required of Democratic LegislatureFriday, December 14th, 2012Dec. 14, 2012 By Joseph Perkins I met Darrell Steinberg last week. The state Senate president pro tem said that he and his fellow Democrats recognize the awesome responsibility that comes with the supermajorities they now enjoy in both chambers of the Legislature. To which I say, facta, non... CARB: The Gremlin in California’s garageTuesday, December 11th, 2012 Dec. 11, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board’s first cap and trade auction in November is yet more proof that CARB is responsible for making people cough, snort and wheeze in California. While trying to convince everyone that the carbon credit auction was a success, CARB o... Free market’s lessons go untaughtSunday, December 9th, 2012 Dec. 9, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Advocates for bigger government -- which is just about everyone these days, it seems -- believe that government is the most efficient and humane provider of goods and services. It's such a bizarre way of viewing the world, but lessons about the wo... The Tobacco Settlement Bait-And-SwitchSaturday, December 8th, 2012 Dec. 08, 2012 By Joseph Perkins “California’s lawsuit against the tobacco industry has reached a successful conclusion that provides a major victory in the fight against smoking.” So said Bill Lockyer, then the state’s attorney general, back in 1999. The settlement guaranteed the st... Beware of lawmakers selling Prop. 13 snake oilTuesday, December 4th, 2012 Dec. 4, 2012 By Katy Grimes Like geese migrating South for the winter, every year a combination of journalists, editorial boards, and “experts” join California's liberal politicians in calling for the repeal of Proposition 13. They can't stand the 1978 ballot initiative which revolutioniz... |