Breaking NewsNEW: CA Parents opposing national Common Core school standardsThursday, May 23rd, 2013 May 23, 2013 By Warren Duffy Earlier this month, a rally sponsored by Citizens Against Common Core was held in Sacramento on the steps of the Capitol. What is Common Core? In a nutshell, it's a new, top-down national educational program that California is adopting in 2014 for students in grade... NEW: Crazifornia: Still more Cali-Incompetence on the Bay BridgeThursday, May 23rd, 2013May 23, 2013 By Laer Pearce It’s been almost a quarter century -- 23 years, seven months and five days, to be exact – since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake knocked out a section of the eastern span of the Oakland Bay Bridge, causing one of the earthquake’s 57 fatalities. Despite the h... David Crane’s budget ideas spark debateWednesday, May 22nd, 2013Commentary May 22, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi David Crane has come up with a tax reform proposal, “Jerry Brown’s Last Chance to Save California.” A Democrat, he was an economic adviser to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, especially on pensions. Crane wants to change Proposition 13, th... CA State Hospitals flout legislative processWednesday, May 22nd, 2013 May 22, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- The Department of State Hospitals appears to be flouting the legislative process. Instead of getting legislative approval for a $50 million expansion, they've been implementing the changes since February, and just now asked for approval. A seemi... Taxpayers subsidizing desert solar energyTuesday, May 21st, 2013 May 21, 2013 By Warren Duffy What is going on with the California based Ivanpah solar plant? In April 2011, Brightsource Energy received a loan guarantee of $1.6 billion from the Department of Energy for the California-based Ivanpah project. It's located along I-15 at the California-Nevad... Assembly bill would extend ‘cradle-to-career’ state educationTuesday, May 21st, 2013 May 21, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- Some California educators want to educate your children "cradle-to-career." In support of President Obama's proposal to significantly increase federal spending on early childhood education and care, Assembly Concurrent Resolution 45 is by Ass... No Prop. 13 tax dodge by Dell if Miramar Hotel had net leaseMonday, May 20th, 2013 May 20, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The last thing billionaire Michael Dell would have done if he wanted to avoid paying property taxes on his purchase of the Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica in 2005 was to buy a share of the operating company instead of the real estate. But that is not how the Los... Caltrans Bay Bridge delays shun private solutionsMonday, May 20th, 2013 May 20, 2013 By Katy Grimes The Caltrans Bay Bridge debacle is worse than just a case of embarrassment for government infrastructure projects. The bridge is unsafe, according to engineering experts across the country, after the discovery that a third of the of the 96 massive, high-strength... Obama scandals reveal true govt.Monday, May 20th, 2013May 20, 2013 By Steven Greenhut The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the IRS targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department’s grabbing of phone records from AP reporters. There are few thing... Boxer’s Delta levee bill is real estate pork barrelFriday, May 17th, 2013 May 17, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi “I drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry,” go the famous lyrics to singer Don McClean’s 1971 hit song, “American Pie.” The California Dream of home ownership and speculative riches in land development died in 2008 in Natomas, the last u... |