Inside GovernmentCalifornia needs adult supervisionMonday, April 9th, 2012 April 9, 2012 By Katy Grimes More than ever, California is a state run by children. Selfish, self-absorbed state officials and lawmakers have been implementing pet policies and legislation for so many decades, they are now arguing among themselves over whose liberal policies are better. ... CA Politicians Gorging On TaxpayersTuesday, March 13th, 2012 MAR. 13, 2012 Like a fat tick feasting on an unsuspecting dog, California government just grows and grows. While governments across the country are trimming budgets and tightening fiscal policies, California is doing exactly what Greece did and is borrowing money to continue paying for all of ... Parents Should Demand VouchersThursday, March 8th, 2012 March 8, 2012 An unnamed teacher at Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard was placed on paid administrative leave this week as the Oxnard School District investigates whether she has been moonlighting as a porn actress. That followed the criminal citation last week of John Eaton Cromwell, a te... General Opposes Brown’s NomineeWednesday, February 15th, 2012 FEB. 15, 2012 California National Guard Brigadier General Charlotte L. Miller has announced that she will voice her opposition to legislators today about Major General David Baldwin’s nomination to the top position of the state National Guard. Miller will testify in the Senate Rules Committee ... Brown Right to Cut Women’s CommissionMonday, February 6th, 2012 FEB. 6, 2012 Any time there is a chick-fest at the Capitol, eyes roll. Last week a legislative hearing about women wasn’t the usual love fest of everything woman. This whining group was lobbying to save a state commission from budget cuts, hardly the picture of classic suffragettes. T... Diversity Trumps Education In CAFriday, January 20th, 2012 Katy Grimes: Since when are race and ethnicity "front and center in the state's education system"? Isn't education supposed to be the goal? In an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee, Linda J. Wong, executive director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California, touted... California Runs Schools Like DMVMonday, December 19th, 2011 DEC. 19, 2011 "Race to the Top" federal education funding California just "won" is more like "Race to Control." Students won't be helped. Instead, schools will just become more like the DMV. The grant is just another way to continue expanding the monstrosity that has become of the California e... More Lawmakers, Less Harm?Monday, December 19th, 2011Dec. 19, 2011 The approval rating for the job done by the California Legislature remains pitiful, ranging in the past year or so from a record-low 9 percent to 16 percent. That percentage of Californians would no doubt support any possible idea you place before them on a public opinion poll, whic... Brown Shows His Union LabelMonday, October 17th, 2011 OCT. 17, 2011 As the legislative session came to an end, some Capitol observers expressed a glimmer of hope that Gov. Jerry Brown would be the independent, reform-minded governor that he swore he would be when he ran for office. After the governor argued that not every problem deserves a governme... Obamacare No Boon to CA WorkersThursday, September 29th, 2011Sept. 29, 2011 A coalition of 26 states filed a petition this week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care reform law. California should have been the 27th. That’s because no state stands to take a bigger economic... |