NOV. 22, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Think Long, a new reform committee billed as a diverse group of politicians and billionaires, is promoting another tax reform measure for the November 2012 ballot. However, the reforms may be as controversial and unpopular as the last big attempt to raise taxes on...

NOV. 21, 2011 By KATY GRIMES It is not uncommon for state legislators to aspire to national political offices in Congress or the U.S. Senate after serving in the state Legislature. However, legislators seem to be setting a new trend, and are heading back home to run for local offices. Assem...

NOV. 21, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT If you want to know which of your friends or neighbors believe in a free and humane society and which ones believe in a police state, show them the now gone viral video of a riot-gear-clad University of California-Davis police officer dousing a peaceful group o...

NOV. 19, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI You might remember the 1965 movie “Dr. Zhivago,”about a physician and poet dislocated by the Russian Revolution of 1917. Zhivago’s family had to flee the Bolshevik revolutionaries to find food and firewood and arrives at their isolated country home, onl...