April 24, 2013 By Katy Grimes Just when Californians thought implementation of the state's Global Warming Solutions Act couldn’t get any worse, it is. AB 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and SB 375, the sustainable communities companion bill enacted in 2008, bo...
Posts Tagged ‘budget’California $127.2 billion in the holeMonday, April 22nd, 2013 POW!!! California $127 billion in the redThursday, April 18th, 2013 April 19, 2013 By Katy Grimes Holy understatement Batman! California is more than $127 billion in the red! The California State Auditor recently released a report detailing California’s “net worth” as a state. California is $127.2 billion upside down. Holy helplessness Bat... CARB lawsuit could end cap and tradeWednesday, April 17th, 2013 April 17, 2013 By Katy Grimes Ding dong! Could CARB be dead? The Pacific Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit yesterday against the California Air Resources Board challenging California's cap and trade regulation. The cap and trade program was created by CARB ostensibly as part of AB 32,... Bills make it easier for agencies to penalize bizThursday, April 4th, 2013 April 4, 2013 By Katy Grimes Wednesday the Senate Environmental Quality Committee passed three bills, despite all three bills receiving credible legal and technical challenges. The committee ignored protocol, and allowed the bills to move on with the proviso work would continue to be done... Legislature uses anti-gun laws as diversionWednesday, April 3rd, 2013 April 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes How convenient. Instead of focusing on criminals released the last two years under AB 109 and now committing new crimes, the California Legislature is diverting citizens' attention by taking up gun control. AB 109 was the prison "diversion" law that dumped th... Caltrans director about to be quietly reconfirmedTuesday, April 2nd, 2013 April 2, 2013 By Katy Grimes Caltrans is an agency in trouble. The most recent buffoonery involves putting California motorists at risk, with the 30 broken bolts discovered on the newly renovated San Francisco Bay Bridge. And apparently Caltrans knew about this. A recently released repo... Economics curriculum bill changes one word in education codeTuesday, April 2nd, 2013April 2, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- A one-word change in the state education code is going through the cumbersome legislative process at the state Capitol. Is the bill necessary? The one-word answer is "no." The bill, as adopted in the Assembly Education Committee, will not ... Neighborhood Legislature could restore accountabilityWednesday, March 27th, 2013 March 27, 2013 By Katy Grimes Big spending on California politics has become one of the state’s largest industries. But the return on investment is lousy. California’s political system has become so heavily manipulated by labor unions and other big money interests that the system is bro... Sacramento arena: A ‘Field of Schemes’Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 March 27, 2013 By Katy Grimes Sacramento officials have lost all ability to reason, and instead are letting emotions and delusions of grandeur drive their decision over a downtown sports arena. Arenas are nothing more that fields of schemes, and the joke is on taxpayers. And Sacramento... |