Katy Grimes

CA Assembly Public Safety Committee Makes Illegal Gun Sale, 'Illegaler'

The California Legislature has demonstrated once again how irrelevant and unnecessary it is as a full-time body. The Assembly Public Safety Committee just passed a bill making illegal gun sales "illegaler," according to Sam Paredes, Executive Director of Gun Owners of California.

340% ‘Miscalculation’ Is Basis for The CA Air Resources Board’s Diesel Regs

The metastasis of statewide diesel truck regulations created by the California Air Resources Board has forced many large and small truckers out of business. The truckers still in business have had to spend $20,000 to $50,000 per truck retrofit with the CARB’s expensive, mandated Diesel Particulate Filter, or they have had to buy newer model trucks to meet the new regulations. New trucks are hugely expensive.

How To Make A California Slush Fund Even Slushier

While the state of California is extracting billions of dollars from businesses and utilities through the California Air Resources Board's cap-and-trade program auctions, the Legislature can't decide how to spend the billions. Instead, lawmakers have been arguing over how to direct the monies into their own districts on some rather dubious projects, and predictably, on public transit and light rail trains. Gov. Jerry Brown has his own dubious project: He carved out more than $1 billion of cap-and-trade revenue for his unpopular high-speed-train-to-nowhere.

CA Air Resources Board Ignoring Deadly Truck Fires

California truck and business owners initiated a lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board because of exploding trucks and roadside fires, due to the CARB's mandatory, faulty diesel particulate filters, they say. Ironically, the filters even fail at cleaning the air.

Report Negatively About the Legislature; Lose Your Seat in the Press Box

I've written several times since 2009 about the ridiculous hassles I've had with the many press credential hold-ups at the hands of the Capitol Correspondents Association and Assembly Speaker's press office.

California Assemblyman’s Bill Will Forbid State Policy to Hurt Israel

A newly introduced bill by California State Assemblyman Travis Allen, R-Huntington Beach, in Orange County, seeks to forbid all state agencies in California from contracting with companies “engaging in boycotts based on race, color, religion, gender or nationality,” in support of California’s long history of trading with Israel.

State of Jefferson Amasses 21 Total Counties

Successfully amassing support in 21 California counties, proponents of the State of Jefferson movement took their petitions to the Secretary of State and the State Legislature Wednesday.