JAN. 5, 2012 By KATY GRIMES As work in the California Assembly began for 2012, on Wednesday the festive mood quickly was quashed. In the first committee hearing of the New Year, the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee killed two bills by Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield,  AB 98...

Commentary JAN. 4, 2012 By JOHN SEILER It sounds like a sequel to a Clint Eastwood movie: The Beautiful, the Bad and the Ugly." The beautiful is Kim Kardashian. The bad are the tax increasers. And the ugly is the tax increase itself. I don't know if Kim reads our Web site. Maybe someb...

JAN. 1, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Two members of the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors, Larry Ruhstaller and Ken Vogel, have recently contended in an opinion piece in the Tracy Press that lack of freshwater inflows and outflows are the “clear cause of the Sacramento Delta’s decline.” ...

In the light of the state Supreme Court's redevelopment decision Thursday, I am reposting my Nov. 12 column regarding the state Republican Party's missed opportunity on this issue. DEC. 30, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT We all know that California's Democratic Party is running the state into ...