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Balancing California's unwieldy budget
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
1.31.2011
Gov. Jerry Brown's State of the State speech Monday night was pretty much what anyone should have expected, as the new governor championed his "tough choices" budget and pushed hard for its centerpiece: a public vote on controversial tax extensions.
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Bankruptcy one of state's few options
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
1.28.2011
Congressional Republicans "should be ashamed of themselves for even suggesting" bankruptcy as an option for California and other debt-plagued states, according to Sacramento Bee Capitol columnist Dan Walters.
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Obamacare Is Already Falling Apart
AOL News
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.27.2011
Last week, the House of Representatives voted by a wide margin -- 245 to 189 -- to repeal the president's landmark health reform package. It's unclear whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will bring the measure up in the upper body.
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We Need School Choice
New York Times
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.26.2011
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama’s prescription for improving America’s ailing education system fell short both in its likely effectiveness and the consistency of his principles.
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Is Brown dodging pension reform?
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
1.24.2011
At a League of California Cities event in Sacramento, Gov. Jerry Brown promised local officials struggling under the weight of pay and benefit costs that he would, indeed, put forward pension-reform proposals in the coming weeks.
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The Acting Governor
City Journal
By: Steven Greenhut
1.21.2011
As Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped down as governor of California, he could behold two dispiriting sights: a state struggling with structural budget deficits, just as it had struggled when he marched into office as a conquering action hero, and an approval rate just 1 point higher than his disgraced and recalled predecessor’s. As Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped down as governor of California, he could behold two dispiriting sights: a state struggling with structural budget deficits, just as it had struggled when he marched into office as a conquering action hero, and an approval rate just 1 point higher than his disgraced and recalled predecessor’s.
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Choosy about right to choose
Orange County Register
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.21.2011
Jan. 22 marks the 38th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, which guaranteed a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. On this date annually, both sides of the abortion controversy confront each other over one of America's most contentious issues.
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Health exchanges a bad idea for Wisconsin
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
By: John R. Graham
1.20.2011
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has joined the multistate legal challenge to the federal health reform law. The law has been unpopular with Badger State voters for some time; nearly 60% favored repeal in a Rasmussen poll taken just before the midterm elections.
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Brown targets corporate welfare
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
1.19.2011
This really could be the beginning of the end for the state's redevelopment agencies, those noxious, corporate-welfare-enabling entities that have wreaked havoc on property rights in California since the 1950s.
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Brown ignores state's competitiveness
Orange County Register
By: Jason Clemens
1.12.2011
Gov. Jerry Brown's fiscal 2011-12 budget aims to close the state's projected $26.4 billion deficit with a combination of tax measures and targeted spending cuts. While a welcome change from gimmicks that only defer the problem, the budget ignores long-term competitiveness problems that plague the Golden State.
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Better To Cut Payroll Tax For Employers
1.11.2011
As the clock wound down on 2010, President Obama signed into law the tax deal he struck with Republicans. One provision is a one-year, 2-percentage-point reduction in the employee portion of the Social Security payroll tax. This measure is supposed to reduce unemployment by boosting spending, but a more effective approach would have cut the employer portion of the tax.
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Conservative Spotlight: Pacific Research Institute
1.11.2011
Human Events had it right in 2005 when it named Sally Pipes one of the "Top 10 Women in the Conservative Movement." As president and CEO of Pacific Research Institute (PRI), Pipes has become an essential voice in the health-care debate, frequently sounding the alarm against the single-payer system.
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Medi-Cal Long-Term Care: Safety Net or Hammock?
New Study
By: Stephen Moses
1.5.2011
Easy access to Medi-Cal-financed long-term care (LTC) has caused many Californians to put off long-term care planning and rely on public assistance. The taxpayer price tag for Medi-Cal Long-Term Care was $12.5 billion in 2008 and will likely increase with the growing population of age-80-plus citizens in the state.
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