Ali Meyer:  A bill to prevent alcohol sales to underage youth at grocery store self service checkout stands is making its way through the legislative committee process. Democrat Assemblywoman Fiona Ma of San Francisco, the bill's author, says she deems this as a "public safety" issue. At a ...

Katy Grimes:  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, "the largest over-the-month decrease in employment occurred in California," with the loss of 29,200 jobs in May. And while some news outlets are reporting that California's unemployment is down, the actual BLS report states, "Nevada co...

John Seiler: Although public-sector unions are the worst at turning California into a toxic jobs climate, private-sector workers aren't much better. Union workers now are protesting in Ontario because, according to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, "Officials from the Teamsters said the contra...

CORRECTED VERSION Steven Greenhut: The redevelopment lobby -- those various corporate-welfare types, bond dealers, consultants, advocates for central planning, assorted bureaucrats and other enemies of property rights -- got a pretty good scare yesterday after the Legislature voted by a simple ma...

Katy Grimes: In a youtube video this morning, Gov. Jerry Brown said he had vetoed the two budget bills, which were passed only yesterday by the Democrat-controlled Legislature using a majority vote, because he said the cuts made did not go deep enough. "In January I presented a balanced budget," ...

John Seiler: Welcome to the desert of sanity. On the eve of having their pay suspended for not passing a budget, the Demcoratic-run California Legislature passed a budget. On the positive side, Gov. Jerry Brown's tax extensions-increases didn't make the cut. And the Legislature voted to kil...