RegulationsGovernment Takes a Bead on SugarFriday, February 3rd, 2012 Feb. 3, 2012 Imagine driving home from a Super Bowl party and being stopped at a police checkpoint. You roll down your window and an officer asks what you’ve had to drink. “Just a couple Red Bulls,” you reply. “I’m the designated driver.” “Will you step out of the car please, ... California is a judicial ‘hellhole’Saturday, December 31st, 2011DEC. 31, 2011 George Louie is a serial litigant. The West Sacramento man’s abuse of the state’s civil justice system was recently cited by the Americans for Tort Reform Association as an example of why California ranks as the nation’s second-worst “Judicial Hellhole.” “Perhaps no o... More Companies Flee CaliforniaSaturday, December 17th, 2011Dec. 17, 2011 Waste Connections, a Folsom-based garbage hauling and landfill company, said last week it is busting a move for Texas. Santa Barbara-based Superconductor Technologies Inc., which develops advanced superconducting wire, also confirmed this week it is leaving for the Lone Star State. ... CARB’s Electric Flivver ObsessionFriday, November 18th, 2011NOV. 18, 2011 Imagine a California with half its current greenhouse gas emissions. With the state’s motorists paying 40 percent less at the pump. With thousands of new jobs created from Sacramento to San Diego. It can happen, California Air Resources Board chairwoman Mary Nichols said this w... Pelosi Clueless on Small BusinessThursday, November 3rd, 2011NOV. 3, 2011 Rep. Nancy Pelosi was back in her San Francisco congressional district last week, where she met with a selected group of small business owners to hear from them how the party of Obama can be of service. “Not having access to credit is a great obstacle,” said one small business... CA Headed For Green MeltdownWednesday, October 26th, 2011 OCT. 26, 2011 If there was any doubt about the economic success of state mandated green programs, it was erased this week after a Senate hearing about the future of alternate fuels. By the end of the four hour hearing, it was clear that climate-change special interests are thriving in California.... AB 32 law choking food processorsMonday, October 24th, 2011OCT. 24, 2011 As California's unemployment rate hovers above 12 percent, even the state's Democratic leaders -- notorious for regulating, taxing and complaining about California's business community -- are talking about jobs. They are championing the occasional job expansion in Silicon Valley (i.... CPUC Stuck In Culture of CorruptionMonday, October 17th, 2011 OCT. 17, 2011 It is shameful to punish the puppy when the pack leader is at fault. It is no different in the workplace and the corporate world -- failure and corruption are usually the fault of the top dogs. Two recent examples are Pacific Gas & Electric and the California Public Utility C... Brown Does The Right Thing on RaceThursday, October 13th, 2011 OCT. 13, 2011 My niece is a sophomore at UC Berkeley. She was admitted to California’s most highly selective public university not because she happens to be a racial minority, but because she met the same demanding standards as her non-minority classmates -- including her high school grades and... Delta Water Rules Smelt of ExtremismMonday, October 3rd, 2011OCT. 3, 2011 If you want to understand the fundamental things wrong with our nation and California, in particular, you ought to peruse the 140-page opinion recently issued by Judge Oliver Wanger in the "Consolidated Delta Smelt Cases." It describes many of the most frustrating elements in our soc... |