Inside GovernmentDrought Politics Dries Up Wet SacramentoThursday, March 8th, 2012 MAR. 7, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Sacramento is suffering from a drought. At least that is what the city utilities department employees say they've been instructed to tell residents who call questioning the city's strict water conservation policies. The City of Sacramento Utilities Department... Military Base Closures Could Hit EconomyTuesday, February 28th, 2012 FEB. 28, 2012 By KATY GRIMES California’s economy is in the tank. That is old news. While there doesn't seem to be relief on the horizon, there is now talk about military base closures. And as with any large employer planning on leaving the state or closing, the economic impacts to the state... Court to Decide Military Medal Fraud CaseSunday, February 26th, 2012 FEB. 26, 2012 By CHRISS STREET Xavier Alvarez, after being elected in 2007 to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District in Pomona, California introduced himself at his first Board meeting as a wounded war veteran who had received the Congressional Medal of Honor, our nation’s highest honor.... Portantino Making Waves, Not FriendsFriday, February 24th, 2012 FEB. 24, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Portantino isn’t making many friends these days in the Legislature. After a well-publicized battle with Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, over the Assembly's secretive accounting practices, Portantino has introduced a mea... Pension Reform Mirrors Brown ProposalWednesday, February 22nd, 2012 FEB. 22, 2012 By KATY GRIMES With the recent pension reform ballot initiative defeated before it ever made it onto the ballot, many in California believed that taxpayers would never get a change to vote on the escalating pension debt predicament. However, the game has changed mid-play, with th... Guarded Optimism For CA MilitaryThursday, February 16th, 2012 FEB. 16, 2012 By KATY GRIMES It could have been an episode of "The General, His Wife, The Staff, and the Military," a movie about the scandal-plagued California National Guard. But instead, after four hours of grueling testimony at times, it appears that the California national Guard has one m... Legislature Advances Dental SocialismTuesday, February 14th, 2012FEB. 14, 2012 By KATY GRIMES As voters are growing increasingly wary of ObamaCare, the President's nationalized healthcare plan, voters in California are also growing skeptical of legislators' attempts to increase statewide healthcare. Fully implementing health care for all has drawn legal ch... Leg Administrators Still Get Tax-Paid CarsThursday, February 9th, 2012 FEB. 9, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Proving once again why California needs a part time Legislature, a recent news story about state-funded cars for legislators showed some bad deals and financial abuses. But the rest of the story is not just who drives which car, and how much it costs; the story is t... CARB versus the CarburetorTuesday, January 31st, 2012 JAN. 31, 2012 By KATY GRIMES The carburetor is losing the battle in California. Instead of acknowledging that auto designers and manufacturers are continually refining the internal combustion engine for efficiency, global warming activists want to scrap the engine. In an attempt to rid ... |