Editorials
- Our View: 'Voters may face triple tax-hike threat
- It's not good when people want to raise taxes. But, ironically, it may turn out to be good that so many different people want to raise taxes in California. It appears increasingly likely that three competing tax initiatives will appear on the Novembe... Full story
- Our View: Union targets charter schools with bill
- Charter schools are spreading throughout America. Charters are public schools that are allowed wide latitude to work outside the traditional public-school model. Commonly they're not unionized.
Perhaps the most dramatic success story comes from New ... Full story
- Our View: Lean times for state pension funds
- Californians still are finding out how much they could be liable to pay for the state's public-employee pension systems. In 2011, the California Public Employee Retirement System achieved a mere 1.1 percent return on its investments. This is worrisom... Full story
- Our View: Walker recall’s ripple effect
- If a national symbol exists for the movement to rein in the power of public employee unions, it is Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker. He pushed aggressive measures to curb the power and influence of government unions and now faces a union-fund... Full story
- Our View: Bill would hound pet groomers
- As if California didn't have enough laws and regulations, now the Legislature might regulate pet groomers.
Senate Bill 969 is by state Sen. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego. Bathing Fido would be, as the bill's summary puts it, "licensed and regulated by th... Full story
- Our View: Global warming alarmists chilled
- The Earth's temperature hasn't increased significantly in about 15 years, which wouldn't be big news except global warming extremists had predicted temperatures would soar during that time because of manmade greenhouse-gas emissions.
That forecast w... Full story
- Our View: 'Bullet train becoming ‘Moonbeam Express’
- Gov. Jerry Brown wants to use anti-global-warming carbon taxes to fund California's much-maligned high-speed rail project.
In a brazen denial of the obvious, Gov. Jerry Brown now insists the proposed California high-speed rail can be built for much ... Full story
