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July 20, 2012
By Joseph Perkins
I’m not a pet guy. I have no personal stake in legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, which would create a “voluntary” certification program for California’s pet grooming industry.
Yet, I’m troubled that Vargas and his fellow...
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July 13, 2012
By Joseph Perkins
Is one of every 186 cell phone users a criminal suspect?
One might think so in the wake of the revelation this week, in a congressional report, that law enforcement requested data last year from Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and other carriers on the ...
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July 6, 2012
By Joseph Perkins
The California Supreme Court ruled this week that the state’s prevailing wage law does not apply to public works projects financed entirely by taxpayers residing in one of the state’s 121 chartered cities.
The decision is a huge win for chartered cities. I...
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June 29, 2012
By Joseph Perkins
After passage in the state Senate by a 33-4 bipartisan majority, the Assembly Education Committee bowed this week to the state’s all-too-powerful teachers unions, rejecting a bill authored by Padilla, D-Van Nuys, that would have expedited the dismissal process...
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June 22, 2012
By Joseph Perkins
California public employee unions were already having a bad June, what with passage of public pension-reform ballot measures by voters in both San Diego and San Jose over the opposition of union bosses.
But their June got exponentially worse yesterday when th...
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