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Enterprise Zones Equal Area Jobs

June 6, 2011
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Enterprise Zones Equal Area Jobs

A Guest Editorial by Assemblyman Paul Cook Sacramento, CA– Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal will punish hard-working Californians, especially small business owners trying to get by in a struggling economy.  His proposal to “reform” Enterprise Zones is one such element.  It raises taxes on businesses under the false banner of reform, and that is unacceptable to me.  Enterprise Zones serve economically distressed areas by providing lower levels of taxation for businesses, stimulating investment and job creation.  The Governor’s proposal would impose a retroactive tax increase on thousands of...

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29 Palms RDA Not Much To Show For The Dough

February 14, 2011
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In 1945 the California Community Redevelopment act was enacted to help cities fight urban blight and in 1951 Tax Increment Funding was enacted to help cities raise funds to match the federal funds. Its purpose was to make the Redevelopment Agencies (RDA) self-funding. In 1975, another law the “set aside” law required RDAs to set aside 20% of the gross tax increment for a housing fund to meet very low, low, and moderate housing needs for California residents. Even before Prop 13, cities were spending more money on the...

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Johnson Valley: Inadequate military boundary signs near live fire take advantage of OHV families

February 8, 2011
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Johnson Valley: Inadequate military boundary signs near live fire take advantage of OHV families

“Signage is not too much to ask for especially when live fire activities are planned for the area.” Last Friday I sat as an observer in federal court and watched 38 persons plead guilty to trespassing on government property even though there was inadequate signage to assist in identifying the boundary of said restricted land. To justify the violations issued the sitting magistrate compared our judicial system to that of other countries and our citizens as farm animals who strayed across restricted boundaries to forage for a meal. These...

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State of the State: Top Priorities Must Be Job Creation and Government Reform

February 4, 2011
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State of the State: Top Priorities Must Be Job Creation and Government Reform

SACRAMENTO, CA– This week, Governor Brown set forward his ideas for tackling California’s budget problems in his eighth State of the State address. While Assembly Republicans offer our hand of cooperation, there’s no doubt we have a different path to solve the state’s fiscal crisis. There is zero voter appetite for tax hikes.  Beyond that, it’s wrong to feed big government by increasing the tax burden on California families in a down economy. Governor Brown has proposed more than $14 billion in tax increases over the next year and...

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Let’s Use Our Heads

January 31, 2011
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Let’s Use Our Heads

Today rioting in Egypt disrupts world markets and drives oil prices ever higher. Will it be Pakistan whose problems pummel us tomorrow? We don’t know the answer to that but we must surly know that Feinstein’s bill could not have come at a worse time? Americans can no longer make their house payments. State and local governments cannot make payroll.  Jobs are scarce, times are tough, the future looks bleak and our continuing reliance on Middle East oil insures that our cost of living soars with every hiccup in...

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Ruling on Injunctions is a plus for ORV Crowd too

January 27, 2011
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Ruling on Injunctions is a plus for ORV Crowd too

The Off Road Community now has the opportunity with the below ruling and last weeks rulings to make a real dent in the Radical Environmental Agenda. We now have the tools to stop Phil Klasky in the Arena that is has heretofore the environmentalist have had a clear biased advantage. Appeals Court Rejects U.S. Request for Rehearing in Mont. Timber Case – NYTimes.com By LAWRENCE HURLEY of Greenwire A federal appeals court today rejected a government request that it rehear a case that set a precedent on how to...

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Martin thought he got away with it.

January 24, 2011
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Martin thought he got away with it.

On Saturday January 22, 2011, at about 10:00 PM, an officer from the Coachella Police Department was driving in a marked unit equipped with an Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) near Grapefruit Blvd. and Avenue 52. This device can scan the license plates of vehicles and compare them automatically to wanted vehicle databases. The ALPR system picked up a stolen white van occupied by a male adult driver. After confirming the vehicle had been stolen out of Rancho Mirage, the officer attempted to stop the driver, who immediately fled...

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Washington’s obsession with land preservation threatens landowners, ranchers

January 23, 2011
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Washington’s obsession with land preservation threatens landowners, ranchers

From the pages of  The Billings Gazette this editorial : By RON POERTNER Just before Christmas with Congress in recess and the public on holiday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued Secretarial Order 3310 that puts the creation of de facto wilderness areas back in the Bureau of Land Management’s preservation tool kit. Environmentalists love it; landowners and resource providers not so much. Salazar’s order enables the BLM to create wilderness-like areas without the consent of Congress. In the long run it will adversely impact resource development, recreation, travel and...

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In Reality, We don’t kill our Politicians we revere them

January 23, 2011
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Reality Check. Serving as an elected official is one of the safest occupations in American life. Listed Below is American politicians that were assassinated since the Signing of the Constitution of the United States of America. No party or Unknown Federalist Democratic-Republican Democratic Whig Republican Other M Politician M Year died Office held when assassinated Site of assassination Method assassination Name of assassin Ref Bent, CharlesCharles Bent - 1847 Governor of New Mexico Territory Taos, New Mexico Arrows and scalping Pueblo Indians and New Mexican rebels Brown,...

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It just keeps breaking our way!!

January 22, 2011
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It just keeps breaking our way!!

County in Utah wins title to R.S. 2477 roads | Christian Probasco | NewWest.Net By Christian Probasco A significant victory on road ownership for a southern Utah county could establish a precedent that could alter the way wilderness is designated in the West. The recognition of Kane County’s title to the historic “Skutumpah Road” in a district court case by Judge Clark Waddoups, and subsequent recognition of its title to four more routes, has given representatives of Kane County hope they may finally get a fair hearing on the...

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