John Seiler: Meg's campaign boasts of her management prowess. But compare this. Here's how Meg ran eBay: She didn't go out and hire retired GM, Ford or GE managers. Instead, she hired young hotshots hungry to create the Internet future. And here's how she's run her gubernatorial campaign: S...

Steven Greenhut: I'm not the only writer who sent an op-ed rebuttal to the Sacramento Bee's overwrought park "crime wave" story (here is the follow-up editorial calling for increased park fees) and who got no response. I didn't even get an acknowledgment from Editorial Page Editor Stuart Leavenworth...

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Steven Greenhut: The Sacramento Bee published a fascinating story on the front page of Wednesday's paper, "Nose dive in cigarette sales slices tax revenue," which details  how new taxes and regulations have pushed cigarette sales to "their lowest levels in a decade." The result, though, us  the st...

John Seiler: News item: Almost 5 million California adults say they could use help with a mental or emotional problem, according to a survey released Wednesday by researchers at UCLA. About 1 million of them meet the criteria for "serious psychological distress." I would have thought the number...

Katy Grimes: Cal Expo cops shot and killed a "rampaging," pregnant Holstein dairy cow at the state fair in Sacramento yesterday, claiming that they couldn't corral her. Local television news reported that the U.C. Davis Veterinary school was preparing to use the cow in a live birthing exhibit lat...