April 19, 2013 By Katy Grimes As the behind-the-scene negotiations take place between the NBA, the owners of the Sacramento Kings and prospective buyers, there is really only one thing to remember: everything is economic. The top Kings player is paid more than $8 million. Wouldn't he li...
Posts Tagged ‘waste’Sacto Kings players dream of no-tax stateFriday, April 19th, 2013POW!!! 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... GOP lawmakers push for more state budget transparencyFriday, April 12th, 2013 April 12, 2013 By Katy Grimes In 2012, the state Legislature passed 80 budget "spot" bills --- empty bills with no details. Such measures just sit on a shelf and await last-minute bill language, then are put forward for late-night passage on the last day of the budget session. These are of... Despite Caltrans boondoggles, acting director to be confirmedThursday, April 11th, 2013 April 11, 2013 By Katy Grimes Today, it appears the California Senate will confirm Malcolm Dougherty as director of Caltrans. He has been serving as acting director. This will be done after only one Senate hearing, where instead of asking Dougherty to answer for the giant problems in his agenc... Bill targets business on air quality issuesThursday, April 4th, 2013 April 4, 2013 By Katy Grimes Lawmakers are notorious for responding to tragedies and accidents with often unnecessary legislation. It’s a Kodak moment none seem to be able to resist, especially over environmental issues. It happened again Wednesday in the Senate Environmental Quality... ‘Unsafe handguns’ now the target of DemsWednesday, April 3rd, 2013 April 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes The many gun control bills being pushed through the Capitol are concerning. But many of them are also rather embarrassing. It has become evident that most of the legislators fixated on gun control have no idea what they are talking about. Yesterday at an Assembl... 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... Politicians seek special enviro deal on arenaSaturday, March 30th, 2013 This is Part One of a two-part series. March 30, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- The unusually speedy approval of a new NBA arena for the Kings basketball team in the heart of downtown Sacramento leaves many details and unanswered questions on the table, including how this arena proje... Unionized workers reject their own UAW contract!Friday, March 29th, 2013 March 29, 2013 By Katy Grimes In an bizarre twist on reality, the United Auto Workers union found itself bargaining as an employer, but got a taste of their own medicine when 74 of the union's own workers at the UAW-General Motors Center for Human Resources rejected the union’s lates... Obamacare glitch previously covered by CalWatchdogWednesday, March 27th, 2013March 27, 2013 By Katy Grimes There are huge news stories all across the country today about the latest discovery in the Obamacare law. I have been writing about these cost increases long before this latest hysteria. And now, well after the election, a new report was published showing j... |