Gov. Jerry Brown's "Moonbeam" shtick has long passed its expiration date, taking about as long to go from "cute" to "annoying" as it did for Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Terminator" references. On Monday, in announcing that the state's budget deficit ballooned from $9.2 billion to $15.7 billion in a ...
Steven GreenhutJerry Brown a dishonest boreMonday, May 21st, 2012Homeless man’s death stirred a furorMonday, May 14th, 2012May 14, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Those who don't understand why Fullerton residents are about to recall three of their city councilmen on June 5 ought to spend 33 minutes watching the videotape that District Attorney Tony Rackauckas released of Fullerton police officers confrontin... Legislature worse than occupiersMonday, May 7th, 2012 May 7, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Occupy Wall Street protesters are reminiscent of writer R. Emmett Tyrrell's criticism of radical feminists: They don't know what they want, but they want it very badly. On May Day, the protesters tied up the streets of Oakland, San Francisco and ... California to middle class: Drop deadMonday, April 30th, 2012April 30, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- The new USC study pointing to a much-slower rate of population growth in California has been greeted by demographers and urban planners as good news, in that it supposedly gives our state's leaders a little breathing room to better plan for the f... Police shouldn’t act like invadersMonday, April 23rd, 2012 April 23, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- A Sacramento area family is mourning the death of their mentally disabled son, who was shot to death by a sheriff's deputy after the family had called the sheriff's department for help in restraining him. Newspaper accounts suggest the deputy ord... A political form of reefer madnessMonday, April 9th, 2012April 9, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Some Oakland residents are furious that on the same day a gunman murdered seven people this week at the private Oikos University in the city, SWAT teams raided a different educational institution less than a mile away, where only peaceful activit... Run a restaurant like a school?Monday, April 2nd, 2012 April 2, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- California's public schools continue to lay off teachers, in a process that is as convoluted and illogical as one would expect in a bureaucratic system in which the needs of the students falls fairly low on the list of priorities. That's my takeaw... Water Socialists Are All WetMonday, March 26th, 2012March 26, 2012 Faced with rising water rates, some politicians and community activists in Southern California are revisiting a fundamental question that most of us thought had been answered by the collapse of the Soviet Union: Is government the most efficient provider of services? We know of t... Hope for sparing parks from budget axMonday, March 19th, 2012March 19, 2012 For a state that prides itself on innovation and alternative ideas, California remains stuck in a rut of outdated thinking when it comes to providing government services. But, thanks to budget cutbacks, California officials might be open to some original thinking, as they wrestle w... Trust This Bunch With Your Pension?Sunday, March 11th, 2012 March 12, 2012 Serious people know that California faces a serious financial problem because oversized compensation packages for the state's public employees are consuming every public dollar in sight and imposing a long-term debt on future taxpayers. Unfortunately, one won't find many serious le... |