LOCAL NEWS HEADLINES Buzzkill for potheads: San Bernardino, other cities move against marijuana dispensaries Fresno farmer fights mandatory union mediation Taxpayers beware: Visalia City Council mulls sales tax Again: East Valley water allotment cut Banning plastic bags: Dumb Green crusade makes a comeback Stockton bankruptcy: Who'll be left holding the bag? Not buying it: High-speed rail explained to skeptical residents Farmers vs. USDA: Rasin growers plead case to Supreme Court Convictions in Bell corruption case Results of chasing out businesses: Valley grads can't find jobs Deja vu: Tulare farmers brace for water shortage As always: Unions pour money into LA elections LA: Budget cuts ahead High-speed rail lawsuits: One settled, more to come San Joaquin Valley water: Fish vs. Farmers debate rages on Not enough: West S.J.V. farmers get 25% water allocation San Bernardino: It gets ugly after bankruptcy Fresno pensions bite the budget Backfire: Gun control proposals spark gun-buying spree
CALIFORNIA HEADLINES Efficient government: CA department certifies sex offenders, drug addicts, criminals as drug counsellors But at least we'll have high-speed rail: CA debt could reach $1 trillion Responsibly overseeing your tax money: LA discovers $43 mln accounting error Pithy: Gov Brown comments on new Bay Bridge problems Calif Dems fight each other over education Anti-growth: Greens move against fracking As Brown goes to China, Californians go anywhere Trying again: Another lawsuit filed against cap and trade How high will it go?: Price tag rises further for high-speed rail Cali debt climbs to $127 bln . . . . . . as Gov Brown celebrates "fiscal discipline" Teacher pensions: Even worse than we thought Out of left field: Bill Maher blasts Cal tax rates Con game: UC charges fee to pay fee refund Livin' large: State employees cash in on vacation days California exodus: It's not just the rich Caught: Gov. Brown's budget tricks exposed No coincidence: Blue states lose people, red states gain them Unsurprising: California leads in adopting ObamaCare regulations A balanced budget! (Except for that $64 billion debt) Municipal bond scam: More bills for our kids to pay Kotkin on reversing CA’s decline: Too bad Sacramento won’t listen TX poaches CA business: Get used to this We’re number one!: CA seeks title for most draconian gun laws
COLUMNISTS George Will Michael Barone Victor Davis Hanson Stephen F. Hayes Jonah Goldberg Joel Kotkin
NATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES Unfair: EPA waives fees for Greens, charges conservatives Hard to explain: DC "Newseum" planned to honor dead terrorists There's an app for that: Application helps liberals boycott corporate villians You were warned: Insurers forecast skyrocketing premiums due to ObamaCare Benghazi scandal: Obama administration's narrative unravels Unsurprising: Public employee union bill causes prison scandal Not believable: IRS denies political bias in targeting of conservatives Fisker: Another disastrous green energy loan Amid sequestration panic, IRS staff go to Vegas Two-face: Hoffa fights unionizing among Teamsters Not what you may expect: America's next great cities That explains a lot: Survey finds Dems like taxes Lack of warming puzzles climate alarmists Better late than never: Unions begin turning on ObamaCare A fair question: Did Obama just block Keystone?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES Fox guarding henhouse: Iran to lead UN disarmament conference Inevitable: World Bank to fight global warming Spooked: Pentagon cites major Chinese espionage campaign Old habits: German ex-leader says he acted like a "dictator" to adopt Euro Meet the new boss: Chavez successor claims U.S. foments violence, funds neo-Nazis Because it worked so well in the U.S.: Japan approves massive stimulus Like Solyndra, but bigger: Chinese solar panel giant goes bankrupt Global warming: Latest explanation for the Arab spring Backtrack: Facing anger, EU suspends airline carbon tax Don't cry for me Argentina: Kirchner humiliated in Falklands vote What could go wrong? U.S. gives $250 mln to Egypt Again: Obama smacked down after courting enemies Seriously?: UN honors dead Venezuelan dictator More Benghazi bad news: Christian missionaries could face death penalty Chinese military: Cyber-thieves?
IN DEPTH Growing threat: Hezbollah in the Western Hemisphere Proven time and again: The benefits of free trade Oil and gas: The past and the future of energy Someone tell Al Gore: How fossil fuels saved humanity Why stimulus fails The Pilgrims and Property Rights: How our ancestors got fat & happy Wind of Death? Windmills don't just bleed rate-payers... Obamacare regulations now longer the world's longest novel...and they are still being written! NUNES: A tax reform to get businesses expanding Going for broke: California's free fall California Dreaming Nightmare. Public pensions unfunded... High Speed Rail Exposed: Taken For A Ride...
