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Open Government Requires More Sunshine
Submitted by Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D on 5.13.2011
The city of Bell pay scandal highlighted serious flaws in California's open-government laws. Now a proposed constitutional change wants the people to guarantee more sunshine to the Golden State. That's how government openness was achieved in the past, through action by citizens and news organizations.
Prop. 13 still the Left's bogeyman
Submitted by Steven Greenhut on 5.9.2011
The British publication's cover story on California, "Where it all went wrong," pins the state's woes on direct democracy and on one initiative in particular – 1978's tax-limiting Proposition 13. While the lengthy feature included incisive details and offered a handful of interesting ideas, it was one of the most intellectually dishonest investigations I've read in a while.
Best/Worst States for Business
Submitted on 5.3.2011
More than 500 CEOs considered a wide range of criteria, from taxation and regulation to workforce quality and living environment, in our annual ranking of the best states for business.
The tea party should hold fast on debt ceiling
Submitted on 5.3.2011
Two weeks ago, Standard and Poor’s kept the U.S. government’s AAA debt rating, but downgraded its future outlook from “stable” to “negative.” The announcement roiled stock markets and underscored the need for tea party activists to keep legislators’ feet to the fire on the debt ceiling. Paul Ryan’s allegedly radical proposal, unfortunately, doesn’t address the looming fiscal crisis.
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