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California’s zany voters

April 23, 2012 By Brian Calle Disillusionment with the two dominant political parties in California should come as no surprise given the economic malaise, massive regulatory bureaucracy and climbing unemployment numbers plaguing the state. “Decline to state” voters now make up one in fi...

Chino Hills in the news again

April 23, 2012 By Katy Grimes Following up the many stories I've done on the Southern California Edison Tehachapi Transmission Renewable Energy Project is a very important bill in the Utilities and Commerce committee today. AB 2235 by Assemblyman Curt Hagman, R-Chino, would  authorize a pr...

‘Will work for shoes’

April 22, 2012 By Katy Grimes State employee discounts are getting ridiculous. Despite the fact that California state and local government employees are among the highest-paid in the country according the latest U.S. Census Bureau, they receive all kinds of crazy discounts. I was sho...

Politicians are the one-percent

April 20, 2012 By Katy Grimes The Sacramento Bee is shilling today for "sustainable communities," another way to describe global warming. "The Sacramento Area Council of Governments board on Thursday approved what's called a "Sustainable Communities Strategy," what the Bee refers to a...

Calif. unemployment jumps to 11%

April 20, 2012 By John Seiler California's economy continues to stagnate. According to new numbers, state unemployment rose from 10.9 percent in March to 11 percent in April. Yet Gov. Jerry Brown, the powerful government-worker unions, liberal activist lawyer Molly Munger and columnists like G...

Brown, Skelton should ‘man up’ on unions

April 19, 2012 By John Seiler Gov. Jerry Brown said the state Legislature should "man up" in making budget cuts to end a budget deficit he now pegs at $9 billion. It was an echo of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attacking legislators as "girly men" for not passing his budget. Say, isn't that po...

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