California’s A Joke to the GOP
Bashing California is the game everyone can play, pundits included. But it’s apparently a lot more fun from the GOP side of the aisle. What could be better for a Republican like Mitt Romney than taking free shots at a dark-blue state like California, knowing that since he’s got absolutely no chance of winning the […]
CTA Like Railroads of Yesteryear
The long, front page spread in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times examining the California Teachers Association did not surprise followers of the shenanigans that pass for deliberative government in Sacramento. Like the railroads of the late 19th and early 20th century, the teachers union is influential to the point of being controlling in Sacramento. The Times […]
Theory Meets Reality on California’s Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program
Theory met reality on Tuesday at a Senate informational hearing on California’s carbon cap-and-trade program that is set to start with an auction in November 2012. Craig Anderson from Solar Turbines, an industrial gas turbine manufacturer with 4,000 employees in San Diego, testified that the soon-to-be-fully-implemented cap-and-trade program is the most significant threat to his […]
School Board Violates Court Ruling on Parent Trigger
In the wake of Superior Court Judge Steve Malone’s historic July 18 ruling in favor of the Desert Trails Parent Union (DTPU) Parent Trigger Petition, the Adelanto school board on Friday night, August 17, voted to flagrantly violate Judge Malone’s order and to continue its never ending attempts to preserve the status quo at any cost. “As parents with children trapped in […]