An inspector general audit has found the Department of Justice is guilty of extravagances such as treating conference attendees to $16 muffins to be washed down with $8 dollar cups of coffee.
From the moment California voters passed Proposition 13 more than three decades ago, it has been subject to attack. Scarcely before all the ballots were counted (which, by the way, ran two to one in favor of 13) a lawsuit was filed in the California Supreme Court seeking its invalidation.
As part of his ongoing campaign to raise taxes, last week Gov. Jerry Brown made a pilgrimage to a major labor confab in Las Vegas. There he delivered a fiery speech to thousands of union delegates, touting his labor credentials and lashing out at Republicans and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Associati
It is fashionable in national circles to make fun of California for its political incompetence and dysfunctional government. The policies adopted by our elected leadership have unquestionably led to California’s dismal rankings in unemployment, business climate, out-migration of productive citizens
Last week, lame-duck Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa came to Sacramento to audition as the far-left candidate for governor in 2014. His performance at the Sacramento Press Club included not just touching the third rail of California politics, but grasping it firmly with both hands.
It’s been 25 years since California lost one of its finest, Howard Jarvis. Sadly, this means that few who are not middle aged or older know much about this titan of the taxpayer movement.
There’s an old joke about the intimidation tactics of the Teamsters union. “How many Teamsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?” Answer: “Four — you gotta a problem with that?” As much as we would like to think that labor unions have abandoned their threatening and often illegal behavior to ge
Though hard to believe, Jerry Brown and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association actually have something in common. We agree that the budget just passed by the legislature deserves to go directly in the trash.
Older residents and others on fixed incomes were being forced out of their homes because property taxes were going through the roof. So were tempers, until the governor stepped forward to limit property tax increases to an annual 2 percent.
If bills now circulating in the legislature had been law for the last 35 years, here are just a few of the things California would be without: tougher penalties for sex offenders, the Coastal Commission, the victims’ bill of rights, auto insurance reform, protections for local government, schools an
In 1978, when voters enacted the landmark Proposition 13, Jerry Brown was governor and Democrats controlled both houses of the legislature. Voters passed Prop.
California’s most powerful public employee union, the California Teachers Association (CTA), has budgeted $1 million for a May campaign to browbeat and coerce lawmakers and taxpayers into providing more money, through higher taxes, for teachers.
