Commentary OCT. 17, 2011 By JOHN SEILER The tax obesessives just won't leave Proposition 13 alone. The 1978 tax limitation measure prevents excessive tax increases on property. The latest assaults come from two sources. The first is the California Budget Project (for Massive Tax Increase...

OCT. 17, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI As Halloween approaches, de-development haunts California: * In the city of Tulare, the city council is not just shelving the downtown master plan for the future. It is officially rescinding it. * In Pasadena’s downtown Paseo Colorado Mall, anchor tenants ar...

Commentary OCT. 14, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Former Assemblyman Chuck DeVore has joined a growing line of conservative Californians who are heading to greener economic pastures in Texas, where he will write a book and serve as a scholar at a Texas free-market think tank. Chuck was running fo...

OCT. 14, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Supporters of the California Dream Act could be in for a wake-up call. In what is being described by many as "waking a sleeping giant," California citizens appear to be spitting mad about passage of the Dream Act, and are getting ready to mobilize. Last Sunday, ...