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Trump pardon closes book on ‘Shrimpgate’ scandal

Donald Trump closes the book by California's "Shrimpgate" scandal by pardoning former Assemblyman Pat Nolan.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 5월 27, 2019

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We now have results for key laws advocates promised would ‘protect’ teenagers. They don’t.

In 2016, fewer than 6% of California adolescents reported trying cigarettes, down from 19% in 2003. Why on earth did legislators feel the need to intervene in such a hugely positive youth trend? For no apparent reason, they did. The results aren't pretty.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 26, 2019

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‘Fungibility’ means there’s no free lunch

"Fungibility," as applied to politics, means there's no free lunch despite politicians' efforts to persuade us otherwise.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 5월 26, 2019

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Bar closing time

Michael J. Scippa, Alcohol Justice, Tiburon It would be more objective if all publications would include the public health perspective when covering the issue of extending last call at bars. Senate Bill 58 is Sen. Scott Wiener’s relentlessly dangerous 4 a.m. bar bill. It marks the third consecutive year in which he has attempted to […]

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 24, 2019

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Weekly Walters 05/24/2019

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 5월 24, 2019

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Service tax proposal is a veiled tax increase

Some California legislators are considering a sales tax on services. A services tax won't reduce California's budget volatility and would worsen the state's affordability crisis. With record budget surpluses, talk of new taxes should be political malpractice.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 24, 2019

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Restoring local control

Ralph W. Guida IV, president of American Council of Engineering Companies-California, Yorba Linda, and Benjamin I. Kasdan, president of American Institute of Architects-California Council, Santa Ana CALmatters’ columnist Dan Walters severely misconstrues Assembly Bill 626. Recent ambiguous court rulings have upended decades of local contracting practice and created chaos for local agencies. The result is […]

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 23, 2019

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Legislation seeks to outsmart ‘smart’ speakers

Smart speakers and tech companies have the capability of recording your conversations, even when you may think the device is turned off. Privacy in the home is at risk as this exciting technology proliferates.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 23, 2019

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Blue-state California now harassing journalists

Now we have a second instance in which California law enforcement officials try to crack down on journalists who obtained information the officials didn't want them to have.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 5월 23, 2019

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Trump doing California a bullet train favor

President Donald Trump wants to claw back the federal money for California's bullet train project and may be doing the state a favor.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 5월 22, 2019