Investigative Reports
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JUNE 20, 2011
By WAYNE LUSVARDI and CHARLES B. WARREN
Democrats in the California Legislature want to repeal the property tax reassessment protections of Proposition 13 for commercial properties under the dubious notion that there is a pot of California 49er gold at the end of the rainbow. Pro...
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JUNE 13, 2011
By JOHN SEILER
The NBA season is over. But a full-court press is on by Gov. Jerry Brown and the tax-increase forces in the Legislature and government-employee unions to increase taxes $9 billion. In his video address Sunday, Brown talked about the state's budget problems, includi...
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JUNE 8, 2011
By WAYNE LUSVARDI
Remember Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator and head of the Khmer Rouge? According to Wikipedia, "During his time in power, Pol Pot imposed a version of agrarian socialism, forcing urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced ...
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JUNE 2, 2011
By JOHN SEILER
The history of California practically is the history of water. So it's not surprising that the recent history of the state involves a shift from government facilitating growth to government sharply restricting growth -- in water and the rest of the economy.
The o...
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