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- Californians Being Taken for a Ride on High-Speed Rail
Why California's latest high-speed rail plan lacks merit
Adam Summers
April 27, 2012 - California Barking Up the Wrong Tree with Pet Groomer Licensing Bill
Adam Summers
March 1, 2012 - California is Barking Up the Wrong Tree with Pet Groomer Licensing Bill
Adam Summers
February 27, 2012, 2:10pm - Red-Light Cameras and the Enigmatic Jerry Brown
Harris Kenny
February 6, 2012, 4:39pm - California Bill Proposes Licensing for Pet Groomers
Adam Summers
February 3, 2012, 5:14pm - San Francisco Chronicle: California running out of money again
Harris Kenny
February 1, 2012, 6:52pm - Jerry Brown Continues to Push High-Speed Rail Boondoggle while California Drowns in Debt
Adam Summers
January 27, 2012, 2:59pm - Time to Face Reality on the California High-Speed Rail Project
Cost estimates keep soaring but Gov. Brown keeps pushing the rail system
Adam Summers
January 27, 2012 - California’s Employment Dysfunction
Harris Kenny
January 23, 2012, 4:54pm - California, Illinois Continue to Make Other States Look Good
Harris Kenny
January 19, 2012, 2:57pm - California's High-Speed Rail Fibs
Adrian Moore
January 10, 2012, 3:42pm - The Detailed Concerns of the CA HSR Peer Review Group
Adrian Moore
January 9, 2012, 5:48am - Jerry Brown's Budget Proposal Gets Plenty of Reaction
Adrian Moore
January 7, 2012, 6:07pm - CA HSR Failure a No Brainer in FL
Adrian Moore
January 4, 2012, 8:05pm - Surprise, Surprise, California Gov. Jerry Brown Calls for More Tax Increases
Adam Summers
December 6, 2011, 6:07pm - California Public Employees Unions Not Serious About Pension Reform
Adam Summers
October 13, 2011, 6:05pm - California Revenues Already Well Behind Projections, Signals Possible Automatic Budget Cuts
Adam Summers
October 12, 2011, 6:29pm - Will Golden State's Malaise Play Out For the Whole Nation?
Adrian Moore
October 11, 2011, 1:51pm - Gov. Brown Signs Controversial AB 438, Imposing Restrictions on Local Gov'ts
Harris Kenny
October 10, 2011, 11:24am - California Budget Sham Already Falling Apart
Adrian Moore
September 27, 2011, 12:40pm - Uncertainty Looms As California Corrections “Realignment” Plan Begins Saturday
Harris Kenny
September 26, 2011, 12:44pm - 'Buffet Rule' to Soak the Rich Hasn't Worked in CA
Adrian Moore
September 25, 2011, 7:29pm - Democrats Dump on Private Libraries
Bill aims to discourage partnerships that can offset cutbacks.
Harris Kenny
September 19, 2011 - More CA High-Speed Rail Arrogance
Adrian Moore
September 16, 2011, 5:43pm - Sec. LaHood Invincibly Ignorant on CA High Speed Rail
Adrian Moore
September 16, 2011, 12:54pm - [Op-Ed] Democrats Dump on Private Libraries (with California AB 438)
Harris Kenny
September 15, 2011, 3:09pm - Early Success for Pay-As-You-Drive (PAYD) Vehicle Insurance in California
Harris Kenny
September 10, 2011, 1:09pm - Latest California Insanity: Regulating Babysitters
Adam Summers
September 3, 2011, 3:35pm - Santa Clarita Mayor McLean Weighs in on AB 438 (Library Privatization)
Harris Kenny
September 2, 2011, 12:40pm - California Ordering Takeout Containers “To Go”?
Harris Kenny
August 31, 2011, 12:36pm - California Librarians Warn, Beware of the “Privatization Beast!”
Harris Kenny
August 22, 2011, 11:00pm - Happy Cost of Government Day, California!
Adam Summers
August 22, 2011, 2:32am - Los Angeles Times Supports State Parks PPPs
Harris Kenny
August 21, 2011, 11:59pm - Teacherapocalypse NOT: In California Less Education Spending Equals Higher Test Scores
Lisa Snell
August 8, 2011, 9:24pm - The Price Tag for Schools for the Deaf
Lisa Snell
August 1, 2011, 12:37pm - Vehicle Fleet Purge Continues in California
Harris Kenny
July 8, 2011, 4:37pm - Secession Renaissance, In Southern California?
Harris Kenny
July 3, 2011, 2:51pm - Big Daddy
The government should let parents regulate their children's entertainment.
Jacob Sullum
June 29, 2011 - Forced Investment in a Sinking Ship?
Leonard Gilroy
June 28, 2011, 1:51pm - The Golden State’s Iron Bars
How California prison guards became the country’s most powerful union
Tim Cavanaugh
June 23, 2011 - Shrink the Prisons
Conservatives are as wrong about prison overcrowding as liberals were about welfare reform.
Shikha Dalmia
June 7, 2011 - ICYMI: Brown v. Plata Ruling Highlights Need for Reform (Not Tax Increases)
Harris Kenny
June 3, 2011, 3:31pm - Brown v. Plata Ruling Highlights Need for Reform (Not Tax Increases)
A multi-faceted approach is necessary to finally reform California's correctional system
Harris Kenny and Adam Summers
June 2, 2011 - America Pays for Villaraigosa’s Transit Legacy
You can’t say no to federal funds for L.A.’s empty trains, fake transit hubs, and unfixed potholes.
Tim Cavanaugh
June 2, 2011 - Big Trouble in Little Hoover
Why does the nonpartisan, good-government consensus sound so radical?
Tim Cavanaugh
May 31, 2011 - When Punishment Is a Crime
The Supreme Court takes on California's overcrowded prison system.
Steve Chapman
May 30, 2011 - Don't Close State Parks; Lease Them
Partnering with the private sector to save California's state parks
Harris Kenny
May 20, 2011 - What Sub-Saharan Africa Can Teach San Francisco
Mass transit doesn’t have to mean massive government spending.
G. Pascal Zachary
May 17, 2011 - [Op-Ed] Don’t Close State Parks; Lease Them
Harris Kenny
May 16, 2011, 2:20pm - California Provides the Case in Point Against National Curriculum
Lisa Snell
May 16, 2011, 2:17pm
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