Inside GovernmentThink ‘Big Labor’ For Arena DealMonday, February 27th, 2012 Katy Grimes: What does a city do when the chips are down, the deficit is huge, services are cut and public approval is at a record low? Why, of course, it's time to build a sports arena. In Sacramento, despite local voters refusing to support public financing to build another sports complex... Reading, Writing, and A ReubenThursday, February 23rd, 2012 Katy Grimes: Reading, Writing and a Reuben sandwich is now part of the California public school curriculum, because dinner is served. Better than your own butler or personal chef, public school kids are getting three squares a day at school, but are flunking basic math, and English-as-a-seco... Johnson’s Big Plans May BackfireMonday, February 20th, 2012 Katy Grimes: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson has made no secret of the fact that he'd like a big, beautiful new sports arena in the city. Johnson is also still pushing for a change to the city charter to make the Sacramento Mayor an "Executive Mayor," and not just one of nine votes on the City Cou... Assemblyman Defends Maxine WatersFriday, February 17th, 2012 Katy Grimes: I sat through a State Assembly session this morning wondering why I was there. It was obviously a thinly veiled excuse by legislators to capture the $142 per diem payment. There were the usual speeches honoring the recently departed. But, time spent at the Capitol is rarely a waste. ... OC Unions Right, Businesses WrongThursday, February 16th, 2012Steven Greenhut: It's not every day that I side with the public employee unions. In fact, it's almost never the case, yet the Orange County Employees Association, community activists and the Occupy types were exactly right recently when they protested a plan by the Anaheim City Council to provide $1... More ‘Rights’ For State EmployeesTuesday, February 14th, 2012 Katy Grimes: Since public employees have so few workplace protections and are so under-paid, Democratic Assemblyman Roger Dickinson has authored legislation to give the unionized state workers more protections from workplace discipline, and priority on state government work over private sector wo... Politician Spends Excessively!Monday, February 13th, 2012 Katy Grimes: Alert the media! A Sacramento politician spent record amounts of money while a county supervisor. And now, that county supervisor is in the State Assembly. An exposé done by the Sacramento Bee over the weekend is only two years late; this information might have been helpful for... Sacto 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 ... |