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The Best States For Jobs
Kurt Badenhausen
11.28.2011
Economist Arthur Laffer pulled together economic data on states as part of a new book, Eureka! How to Fix California, being published in February by California think tank Pacific Research Institute.
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Can’t Live by Scenery Alone
City Journal
By: Steven Greenhut
11.28.2011
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike,” wrote John Muir, in one of his many celebrations of the majesty of the Yosemite Valley.
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‘Think Long’ report short on serious ideas
San Francisco Examiner
By: Steven Greenhut
11.28.2011
Would California be in better shape if former governors Arnold Schwarzenegger or Gray Davis, or former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, were back in power? That’s an odd question given the fiscal mess that those politicians helped create, or at least were powerless to fix.
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Getting Serious About Ron Paul
The Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
11.28.2011
I can't forgive myself for voting for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor during the 2003 recall. I selected a "winnable" loser rather than Tom McClintock, a principled conservative who knew what policies to pursue to right California's sinking fiscal ship.
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California impedes digital learning
The Orange County Register
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
11.28.2011
If there's one area where California, the home of Silicon Valley, should be an education leader, it's digital learning. However, a new national report card finds California lagging in expanding the use of digital technology, such as interactive software programs and online resources, to improve student learning.
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Why GOP is Dying in California
The Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
11.14.2011
We all know that California's Democratic Party is running the state into the ground fiscally, given how beholden its legislators and elected officials are to public sector unions and how devoted they are to expanding government and raising taxes.
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Gov. Brown’s decent pension plan is a long shot
San Francisco Examiner
By: Steven Greenhut
11.8.2011
Despite some encouraging details in Gov. Jerry Brown’s recently announced pension-reform proposal, there’s virtually no chance the state will seriously reform — or even seriously attempt to reform — a system creaking under the weight of about $500 billion in unfunded liabilities.
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Jobs killed by unendangered species
San Francisco Examiner
By: Joseph Perkins
11.8.2011
It’s been 20 years since biologist Jonathan L. Atwood authored a study declaring the California gnatcatcher a distinct subspecies.
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Pension Reform Goes Nowhere in California
Reason Magazine
By: Steven Greenhut
11.8.2011
Despite some encouraging details in California Gov. Jerry Brown’s recently announced pension-reform proposal, there’s virtually no chance the state will seriously reform—or even seriously attempt to reform—a system creaking under the weight of about $500 billion in unfunded liabilities.
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