Posts Tagged ‘Steven Greenhut’Is CA really barreling down recovery road?Saturday, February 9th, 2013 Feb. 9, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Former New York Times journalist Froma Harrop wrote on Real Clear Politics that it's “tough times for California bashers” because of the recent turnaround of the state. Harrop argued that those who have bashed California -- she sites Steven Greenhut in R... California a model for other states?Sunday, February 3rd, 2013Feb. 3, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- California's modern-day progressive Democrats keep crowing about the huge success they've had in taming the state's budget deficit, thanks to Proposition 30's tax increases and other "reforms," and now are championing the Jerry Brown model as a blu... Affluence police tee off on MickelsonMonday, January 28th, 2013Jan. 28, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- After hearing the criticism directed toward golfer Phil Mickelson for his modest comments about California's highest-in-the-nation tax rates giving him cause to consider relocating, I was left wondering: What country do we live in? Did you ever ha... Brown’s budget is a boon to state’s unionsSunday, January 20th, 2013Jan. 20, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown continues to pose as an iconoclast who is willing to make the tough choices necessary to keep California afloat, but the budget he released recently is more evidence that he remains the cat’s paw for the state’s public-sec... More CA laws choke usSunday, January 6th, 2013Jan. 6, 2013 By Steven Greenhut This year’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, California featured the Department of Defense’s “Freedom Isn’t Free” float. While nothing is close to free when DOD is involved—the B-2 bomber that made a fly-by as parade-goers cheered cost more than twice its we... 10 predictions for California 2013Sunday, December 30th, 2012Dec. 30, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- California’ Democratic leaders are giddy about the future now that they have gained everything they wanted in the last election -- voter-approved tax increases and a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, thus rendering Re... State turns bureaucrats into millionairesWednesday, December 26th, 2012Dec. 26, 2012 By Steven Greenhut California's political leaders continue to defend a public-employee-compensation system that is so far beyond sanity it's hard to know where to begin. Here is a Bloomberg story about a cop -- a California Highway Patrol division chief -- who is "earning" nearly... Sure, the GOP must change, but …Wednesday, December 26th, 2012Dec. 26, 2012 By Steven Greenhut Without fail, whenever Republicans lose elections, liberal commentators eagerly chime in with advice designed to "help" the GOP become more relevant and competitive. The advice is so common and predictable that it leaves me wondering whether the journalists who... CA lawmakers take aim at gunsMonday, December 24th, 2012 Dec. 24, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO – It took only days before California's legislators reacted to the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy with a fusillade of bills designed to take California closer to Democratic leaders' unstated but obvious goal: making it essentially il... |