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CA Prison Guards Lock Up Reforms
After being threatened with contempt by a panel of federal judges for failing to sufficiently reduce the number of prisoners in California’s jails, Gov. Jerry Brown reluctantly unveiled a plan this month to further reduce the Golden State’s overcrowded prisons by another 9,000 inmates. Enthusiasm in Sacramento was in short supply. Brown argued that court orders were [...]
Assembly bill would extend ‘cradle-to-career’ state education
Some California educators want to educate your children “cradle-to-career.” In support of President Obama’s proposal to significantly increase federal spending on early childhood education and care, Assembly Concurrent Resolution 45 is by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego. It would urge the Legislature to boost early childhood education funding in order to get children into day care and educational [...]
Legislature’s Assault on Prop. 13 Begins
Last week we alerted California taxpayers as to the immediate threats to Proposition 13 being heard by a California legislative committee. As fully anticipated, the Senate Committee on Governance and Finance approved all six of the anti-Prop. 13 proposals. All of the bills in question would gut one of the most important provisions of Proposition [...]
Caltrans Bay Bridge Delays Shun Private Solutions
The Caltrans Bay Bridge debacle is worse than just a case of embarrassment for government infrastructure projects. The bridge is unsafe, according to engineering experts across the country, after the discovery that a third of the of the 96 massive, high-strength steel rods, installed for seismic safety, cracked under pressure when the nuts affixed to the [...]
High-Speed Rail Needs Investigation
First exposed by the Los Angeles Times, the recent revelation, that the rules for awarding the first construction bid contract for the California High Speed Rail project were changed in the middle of the process, needs a full blown investigation. The Authority CEO, Jeff Morales seems to be immersed in a world of his own imagination. [...]
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Yet another evil of the income tax
When the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified 100 years ago, there was no concern that IRS abuses would extend to 501c4 applications for nonprofit status from groups “unfriendly” to the administration in power. Such MEGO tax code proliferations were never anticipated. Careful observers of the income tax from the perspective of American ideals and history, such as Frank [...]
CEOs Say CA is Dead Last
If I were trying to grow a state’s economy, I would probably listen to someone who knows how to create jobs and is making decisions on behalf of shareholders, investors and employees. I think the time has come to take seriously all these various surveys that come out and rank California at the bottom or [...]
Statewide Taxpayer Group Partners to Join Campaign & Launch Initiative Opposing Sacramento Arena Deal
Taxpayers for Safer Neighborhoods PAC has joined with Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork (STOP) to announce the first phase of a campaign to end the financially irresponsible diversion of over $250 million in public funds to build a new downtown basketball arena. Armed with the financial and political resources necessary, the group will be launching [...]
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Utah Congressman: Obama Impeachment “Not Off the Table”
Congressman Jason Chaffetz is considered a smart, if brash, Republican member of Congress who was elected a few years ago by opposing an entrenched establishment conservative who had lost touch with party faithful in the Beehive State. A former place-kicker for the BYU Cougars, Chaffetz has excelled as Congressman and has built strong credibility with [...]
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Pay $10 to see a Ferrari in Las Vegas?! Just visit Newport Beach on any given Saturday!
The iconic Ferrari sports car is one of the most recognizable, expensive and sought after sports cars in the world, but production of the Italian speedster is now being further limited from the sales in 2012, reportedly to maintain the exclusivity of the brand. For the first nine months of 2012, Ferrari delivered just 5,267 [...]
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Holder crosses a line in going after leaks
From Sac Bee: Federal judges should be on notice: The U.S. Justice Department seems fully prepared to stretch the truth – or worse, spread falsehoods – to obtain search warrants. That’s what it did in labeling a journalist as an espionage “co-conspirator” for simply doing what reporters have always done – attempting to solicit information from government employees. As [...]
IRS’s Lois Lerner denies wrongdoing, then clams up
From Contra Costa Times: The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency’s targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers’ questions. In one of the most electric moments since [...]
The Case for Impeachment
From American Thinker: How ought Republicans to respond to the growing list of indefensible abuses of power by Barack Obama? Consider what he has done. Obama has created the virtual equivalent of an “enemies list” and used the federal government to persecute these opponents of his plans. Obama has repeatedly and transparently lied to the [...]
San Jose votes to raise pot tax, legal budget for pension reforms
From SJ Mercury: The San Jose City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to raise the city’s tax on marijuana collectives to 10 percent starting in July. Raising the city’s marijuana tax was among Mayor Chuck Reed’s budget recommendations for the coming year. San Jose voters in 2010 approved a tax on medical marijuana providers of up [...]
Oklahoma Tornado Reignites Disaster Funding Debate
From Roll Call: Even as emergency personnel continued to search through the debris of Monday’s tornado in Oklahoma, talk on Capitol Hill had turned to the question of paying for the recovery. Rep. Peter T. King, a Republican from Long Island, told CQ Roll Call he was prepared to go to bat for the victims in [...]
