When state Sens. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, introduce a split roll property tax to increase taxes on business property, you’ll hear arguments from advocates that the ...

Last week, the California Supreme Court made a common sense decision that will be good for California employers and employees. The ruling eliminates a major complaint that businesses and business ...

The Assembly recently passed legislation that, over a six year period, would raise the current $200 fee for filing ballot initiatives at the attorney general’s office up to $2000. The legislation ...

In many ways, California’s March elections constituted a success. But there are still complaints about long lines and voter confusion. So if reforms must be made in our elections, let me suggest ...

It is fitting that on Tax Day, April 15th, those who seek to destroy Proposition 13 have now revealed their intentions. We already knew about all the bills currently pending in the California ...

Not only is the University of Southern California not in the state of Southern California under Tim Draper’s initiative proposal to divide California into three states, the University of California ...

and the adverse effect they would have on California’s job creators. This is the first column of the 2011 series. If this year is any indication, the news is not good for small businesses and their ...

When it comes to providing Californians with transparency in government, the Legislature always manages to exempt itself from the rules it creates. The State has rightfully enacted laws to make it ...

Last weekend, the Executive Committee of the CA Republican Party voted overwhelmingly to oppose the Budget Package – Measures 1A through 1F. That vote mirrored the two to one opposition within the ...

Executive Director of www.StopETaxes.com and Americans for Tax Reform's Digital Liberty project ...

If you read the newspapers or the state’s political bloggers, you might think that Jerry Brown’s demand for a debate with the two GOP gubernatorial contenders was a strategic masterstroke. The verdict ...

Applying the same criteria in which Major League Baseball (MLB) stepped in to take over the operation of the Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB decided it needed to rescue the State of California from a similar ...