Posts Tagged ‘Sacramento Bee’Empire-building drives dishonest spin from Covered CaliforniaFriday, June 7th, 2013 June 7, 2013 By Chris Reed Cato's Michael Cannon has been a tremendous source of common-sense analysis of Obamacare for years. In a recent commentary on why Covered California would put out such a mendacious and dishonest account of Obamacare's impact on 2014 insurance rates in the Golden Stat... How’s Obamacare working out for CA?Sunday, June 2nd, 2013June 2, 2013 By John Seiler How's Obamacare working out? On her Web site, state Senate Speaker Pro Tem Nora Campos, D-San Jose, wrote: "Much of our focus, early in 2013, will be on health care. The legislature will work with Governor Jerry Brown to implements the federal Affordable Care Act [... CA media ignore Obama administration’s fracking viewsTuesday, May 14th, 2013 May 14, 2013 By Chris Reed The debate over hydraulic fracturing -- using high-powered water cannons to reach natural gas and oil reserves deep underground -- is heating up in California, driven by the vast economic potential of the Monterey shale formation under vast swaths of the state. La... Sacto Bee targets McClintock over Yosemite issueSaturday, April 27th, 2013 April 27, 2013 By Katy Grimes Instead of criticizing the environmentalists who want the riff-raff out of Yosemite National Park, to be returned to its "wilderness state" so visitors can enjoy "tranquility and introspection," the Sacramento Bee has taken up a fight with Rep. Tom McClintock... Hit piece emboldens Donnelly gubernatorial bidMonday, March 18th, 2013 March 18, 2013 By Katy Grimes Last week, Assemblyman Tim Donnell (R-Hesperia) saw his planned run for governor contemptuously dismissed as a "faux bid" by Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Morain. The column read more like a hit piece than an analysis. Worse yet, it came off as if it were a persona... Probe shows CA Dems’ talk of ‘social justice’ a smokescreenTuesday, February 26th, 2013 Feb. 26, 2013 By Chris Reed There has rarely been a journalistic scoop that did a better job of exposing the fraud that is the claim that state Democrats are the party of social justice than the report last week from California Watch. Its investigation showed that thousands of teachers in... Stats don’t back CA gun grabSaturday, December 29th, 2012Dec. 29 By Steven Greenhut -- California's Democratic legislators are actively introducing measures designed to limit our ability to defend ourselves with firearms, yet the Sacramento Bee reported today that gun deaths have been going down even as gun ownership here has increased. Per the Bee: G... Izumi criticizes state employee’s cyber-goldbrickingThursday, December 13th, 2012Dec. 13, 2012 By John Seiler A state government employee posted thousands of times on the Sacramento Bee's Web site during work hours. Taxpayers subsidized his cyber-goldbricking. CBS News just ran a story on it with interviews of Lance Izumi, our colleague at the Pacific Research Institut... More media malpracticeSaturday, November 17th, 2012 Nov. 17, 2012 Katy Grimes: One of the worst editorials I've ever read was in today's Sacramento Bee. Throughout the presidential campaign, the factually-challenged Bee editorial board claimed that Mitt Romney didn't have his facts straight, and called him a flip-flopper. They ran a politic... CARB scandal also shames California mediaMonday, November 5th, 2012 Nov. 5, 2012 By Chris Reed It was four years ago yesterday that the California Air Resources Board sent out a letter that marked the beginning of an amazingly juicy and revealing scandal that the Los Angeles Times and San Jose Mercury-News chose to ignore -- a scandal that the S... |