"'We believe it is in the best interest of California, our company, and our consumers for the state to maintain fair and competitive tax policies for all businesses operating in the state,' wrote Patrick L. Hayes, Procter & Gamble's associate director for state government relations. "We are not involved in any formal opposition to Proposition [...]
Tag: California
People of Los Angeles County
Did you know there's a very useful Citizens Guide to (LA) County Services 2012-2013? No? Well, neither did I until I found it at PalosVerdes.com. It's full of useful information, such as the freaking address of the county seat in Norwalk. And, y'know, I could not, to save my life, find that address on the [...]
Prop 29: it’s not over ’til it’s ver
"The vote count for the tobacco tax on last week's primary ballot narrowed again Tuesday as elections officials across California tallied hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots. "The measure, known as Proposition 29, was losing by just over 33,200, a gap that narrowed from 63,000 on election night, state election figures show. "More than 4.5 [...]
Smoking in California
"If the ballot initiative won, the sponsoring American Cancer Society estimated, 220,000 kids would never start smoking and 100,000 adults would quit rather than pay the extra $1 per pack to fund research on tobacco-related diseases. That would cut deeply into tobacco's profits." Higher tobacco tax? It's still a no-brainer, by George Skelton, Capitol Journal, [...]
Help Jerry Brown save California
People of California, those of you registered to vote (and those not, get registered!): https://youtu.be/NPc85z9uhJQ Vote for this. It makes sense. (Oh, and it's on the November ballot, but don't mess around if you're not registered to vote. Do. It. Now. Please and thank you.)
Stop the thieving California heath insurance companies now
Okay, this video is funny, informative, and hard hitting. https://youtu.be/PMO-_woxVpE But this new way of gathering petition signatures is brilliant. Please do what I did and go to Justify Their Rates (justifyrates.org), get this petition (pdf), sign it and send it in. Stop the thieving California heath insurance companies now! Enough already! Thanks, Calitics for [...]
Reasons to love California, #6
Robotic squirrels: "That's where the robot squirrels come in. To find out, Sanjay Joshi, a mechanical and aerospace engineer at the University of California, Davis, built a squirrel with a heatable tail and a flagging mechanism, each controlled separately. That means biologists will be able to tell which signal the (rattle)snake is reacting to." Robosquirrel [...]
Welcome to the wonderful wonderland of California politics
"The state's ethics watchdog agency on Thursday dismissed allegations against Assemblyman Chris Norby (R-Fullerton) that he misused campaign funds to pay for a motel stay in Orange County for personal benefit. "The state Fair Political Practices Commission overruled its chief of enforcement, who had argued that Norby lied when he claimed to have checked into [...]
Why we must change, and soon
"'Oh, I have taken too little care of this!' King Lear cries out on the heath in his moment of vision. 'Take physic, pomp; expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.' 'This' changes; in Shakespeare's time, it was flat-out peasant poverty that starved some and drove others as mad as poor Tom. In Dickens's and [...]
The perils of the unprepared
She might not be a Moonie, but she's definitely an idiot. "Reporter: No, actually, because when Reagan came in later on, things actually changed. "Brown: No, Reagan came before me. Reagan came after my father and then I came after Reagan. "Reporter: And then you actually lost your term thereafter, no? "Brown: No, I'm the [...]