Posts Tagged ‘Don Perata’‘Violence is as American as apple pie’Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 Jan. 30, 2013 By Katy Grimes The Senate and Assembly held a joint Public Safety committee hearing on Tuesday about guns, but the hearing room was not even two-thirds full. Several Capitol staffers told me that the hearing had not been noticed to the public properly, deliberately, in order ... Pension reform puts teacher take-home pay in cross hairsWednesday, December 19th, 2012 Dec. 19, 2012 By Chris Reed The conventional wisdom about the 400,000 members of the California Teachers Association and the 120,000 members of the California Federation of Teachers is difficult to dispute: Their unions dominate Sacramento in a way no other special interest remotely rivals.... Prop 29 tobacco tax defeatedWednesday, June 6th, 2012June 6, 2012 Katy Grimes: Ballotpedia just reported that Proposition 29, the Tobacco tax, was defeated 50.8 percent to 49.2 percent. Whew! That was close. But in the end, I think voters are just distrustful of another tax, and particularly how politicians would spend the funds. ... Proposition 29: Why should voters care?Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 April 25, 2012 by Katy Grimes There are examples of waste, fraud and abuse in nearly every corner of government. With the election season upon us, voters need to pay special attention to what is on the ballot. California's ballot initiatives say a great deal about the health of the st... Ballot-Box Budgeting SchemeThursday, January 12th, 2012 Katy Grimes: The latest proposed state budget demonstrates exactly why California doesn’t need the new spending scheme that will appear on the ballot this June. The budget released by the Governor last week projects that despite billions in cuts to programs over the last several years, Californ... |