Rights and Liberties
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
DEC. 29, 2011
By STEVEN GREENHUT
Believers in property rights and limited government should be thrilled that when the toughest threat to redevelopment arose in California, the biggest defenders of these agencies -- the League of California Cities and the California Redevelopment Association --...
Monday, October 17th, 2011
OCT. 17, 2011
By STEVEN GREENHUT
Cities throughout California are facing tough economic times, the result of a down economy and chronic overspending on the part of city governments -- especially in the areas of salaries and retirement benefits for city employees. It's a challenging time in...
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
SEPT. 6, 2011
By JOHN SEILER
Key California legislators passing an anti-parent bill grabbed campaign financing from the gigantic Merck conglomerate, a CalWatchDog.com investigation revealed. The legislation is AB 499 by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, D-San Diego. In the bill's language, it "autho...
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
JULY 5, 2011
By RICHARD TRAINOR
When I met Richard Fine in the summer of 2001, he was riding high. Shortly after that he was rotting in jail.
A prominent attorney with a thriving practice in Beverly Hills, in the sunny days of 2001 Fine was a political insider with powerful connections to U...
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
MAY 23, 2011
By JOHN SEILER
Today's U.S. Supreme Court decision mandating California state prison reductions must lead to long-needed reforms. The decision upheld a lower court ruling that from 38,000 to 46,000 must be released due to overcrowding that violated the Eight Amendment's ban on "cr...
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
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APRIL 12, 2011
By TORI RICHARDS
A recent appellate court decision could have far-reaching impact on whether citizens can successfully fight government agencies for documents under the California Public Records Act.
Attorneys battling for public records only have one big hammer -- attorney...
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
MARCH 22, 2011
By STAN BRIN
California’s Small Claims Courts are in trouble. Every year, fewer people take their cases before the local Judge Judy. But no one seems to know why this is happening, or even that the problem exists -- or even if it is a problem at all.
In 20 years, annual Sma...
Friday, March 18th, 2011
Commentary
MARCH 18, 2011
By STEVEN GREENHUT
California Republicans love to talk about limiting government, fighting bureaucracy and keeping taxes low, but on Thursday they proved that this is nothing more than a rhetorical device. Given the opportunity to rein in the size and power of gove...
Monday, March 14th, 2011
MARCH 14, 2011
BY WAYNE LUSVARDI
Last month with Silicon Valley elites, President Obama raised a glass of wine to toast the area's success. He was repairing his self-damaged image with big business.
But a symbolic Sword of Damocles hovered over the meeting.
Apple Computer employs 30,000 ...
Monday, February 7th, 2011
By JOHN SEILER
Writing recently in the Sacramento Bee, two professors mangled the actual meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Alan Gibson of Cal State Chico and James Read of the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in Minnesota charged that while the newly elected Republicans in Co...
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