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NEW: Both sides in water war need smelt to provoke compromise
Feb. 27, 2013
By Wayne Lusvardi
You probably read the news headlines this past month on the Delta smelt fish with curiosity about what was really going on:
* “Delta water diversions reduced to protect smelt” -- Feb. 11;
* “Once again...
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NEW: Lessons for CA from my Middle East trip
Feb. 27, 2013
By Katy Grimes
I just returned from a trip to the Middle East, and managed to pack several thousand years of history into three weeks. Against the warnings and concerns of many friends, my husband and I, and another couple, tr...
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Pelosi leads charge on minimum wage hike
Feb. 26, 2013
By Josephine Djuhana
Raising the minimum wage helps the little guy -- doesn’t it?
President Obama’s State of the Union address earlier this month was more than a brightly optimistic speech on the current state of affairs in...
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High-Speed Rail hearing cuts off opposing speakers
Feb. 26, 2013
By Katy Grimes
SACRAMENTO -- At Assembly Transportation Committee hearings in the Capitol on Monday, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, cut the microphone of two speakers during the three minutes left for public co...
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Sequester would axe large federal spending programs in CA
Feb. 25, 2013
By Chriss Street
Over the weekend, the White House released a report detailing some of the programs and services in California that would be impacted beginning on March 1. The Obama Administration has threatened that the cuts wi...
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Democrats addicted to tax increases
Feb. 25, 2013
By Joseph Perkins
You’ve heard the familiar fable about the scorpion and the frog?
They meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on his back. The frog asks: “How do I know you won’t ...
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Voters can dry up ‘inevitable’ tax on rain
Feb. 25, 2013
By Wayne Lusvardi
The lyrics to Celine Dion song, “Rain Tax (It’s Inevitable),” suggested that some day government was bound to levy a tax on natural rainfall.
By 2009, the California legislature voted to impose just such a rain tax through Assembly Bill 2554. The tax is purportedly to comply with the Federal Clean Water Act. But oddly, only Los Angeles County was singled out by the ...
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NEW: Gasp! Oscar host offends lawmakers
Feb. 27, 2013
By Katy Grimes
Alert the media! The Assembly Women's Caucus is offended.
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NEW: ‘Everyone is moving out of California’
Feb. 27, 2013
By John Seiler
An old friend I've known 46 years called and said, "I was just he... |
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NEW: Prediction: CTA, CFT will kill Brown push to help English learners
Feb. 27, 2013
By Chris Reed
On the Fox & Hounds website, veteran Sacramento watcher John W... |
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Shock! Taxpayers funnel $83 billion to banks
Feb. 26, 2013
By John Seiler
Wonder where your tax $$$$$ go? Well, $83 billion a year goes to ... |
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Obamacare: Not enough doctors in CA, FL
Feb. 26, 2013
By John Seiler
An axiom of Econ. 101 is: Lower cost increases demand.
That's ... |
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Bridge over troubled cities
Feb. 26, 2013
By Katy Grimes
Since 2007, the city of Sacramento has been threatening to bu... |
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