Inside GovernmentSacto To Pawn Parking For ArenaSunday, February 5th, 2012 Katy Grimes: Would you pawn a $5,000 Rolex for $150? While only someone desperate for quick cash would do something so irresponsible, the City of Sacramento is making plans to cut a similar deal. City officials are about to pawn public parking lots, appearing to have figured another way a... Feds Own Almost Half of Calif.Friday, February 3rd, 2012 John Seiler: According to the Declaration if Independence, America consists of "Free and Independent States"; 13 originally, 50 today. Except that the centralized tyranny in Washington, D.C. owns 45.3 percent of the land in California. That's better than the 84.5 percent in Utah or the 69.1 pe... Petty Lawsuit Shows Leaders’ MotiveMonday, January 30th, 2012Katy Grimes: A petty lawsuit filed by Assembly Speaker John Perez and Senate Pres. Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg against the state Controller demonstrates the legal levels the Democratic leaders are willing to go. While it may sound as if this is a legal precedence-setting opportunity, it’s not their ... Sacramento’s Sinking EconomyFriday, January 20th, 2012Katy Grimes: How far does Sacramento have to fall before its citizens show some inkling of caring? A new Brookings Institution study shows just how far out of touch Sacramento is economically, with the rest of the country and major cities around the world. Out of the 200 metropolitan areas sur... CA High Public Employee PayWednesday, January 18th, 2012Katy Grimes: It's official - California has the largest number of public sector employees making more than $150,000 per year. The Sunshine Review, a nonprofit organization dedicated to government transparency, released its first state government salary report today, which analyzed public secto... Rice Talks of World Shocks in SactoThursday, January 12th, 2012 Valerie Starr: Condoleeza Rice spoke to a packed house last night at the Sacramento Speaker Series at the Community Center. Knowing that Rice played such a large role in history, her biography lasted more than five minutes. She is best known as the secretary of state under George W. Bush dur... A Stake Through the Heart of RailWednesday, January 11th, 2012 Katy Grimes: Apparently tired of all of the talk and stories around the capitol and throughout the state about the need to end the money-sucking High-Speed Rail system, Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, plans on driving a wooden stake through the heart of the High-Speed Rail plan herself, ... Hayashi Hired ‘The Fixer’Tuesday, January 10th, 2012Katy Grimes: The strange news that a benign brain tumor is the real reason that Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi shoplifted at Neiman Marcus isn't odd enough - today's Sacramento Bee ran a front page, above-the-fold story again about Hayashi's incident, but it was a kinder, gentler version. "I accep... Hayashi’s ‘Tumor’ DefenseSaturday, January 7th, 2012Katy Grimes: The late Friday news reported that Castro Valley Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi has a benign brain tumor, and that is what caused her to shoplift $2,500 in clothing from Neiman Marcus in San Francisco. Interestingly, the judge assigned to her case reduced her felony grand theft charge ... |