Aug. 6, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- After Tom Tait was sworn in as mayor of Anaheim in November 2010, he issued a statement announcing the city's commitment to "kindness and freedom." One reader -- knowing this to be the type of governmental hubris that's almost too easy to lampoon -...

July 30, 2012 By Steven Greenhut While sitting in a restaurant in Philadelphia's Chinatown during my first visit here in more than a decade, I watched TV news reports of violent protests erupting in normally placid Anaheim after two fatal police shootings the prior weekend. It was shocking. Th...

July 23, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- First, Vallejo, in 2008. Next, Stockton, then Mammoth Lakes and, now, San Bernardino and soon, perhaps, Compton. As Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach told Bloomberg News, the bankruptcy dominoes are starting to fall. One California city after...

July 16, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- We all would laugh at a man who, sinking in millions of dollars in house payments, car loans and credit card bills, decided to fix his cash-flow problem by looking for nickels, dimes and quarters lurking underneath the sofa cushions. Likewise, ...

July 9, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Just as the housing industry is showing signs of recovery, California's Democratic officials have concocted a "solution" that adds regulations and higher costs to the foreclosure process. These are the same officials who can't produce an honest bud...