By Wayne Lusvardi | CalWatchdog
SACRAMENTO – New extraction technologies are creating an oil and gas boom that is lifting the economics of several states, as reported by the Wall Street Journal’s recent article “Oil and Gas Boom Lifts U.S. Economy.”
Median incomes are growing since 2007 in such states as Wyoming, Alaska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas. [...]

By Wayne Lusvardi | CalWatchdog
SACRAMENTO – Ready for another phantom “drought”? The National Resources Defense Council is. The NRDC’s bogus Delta Smelt lawsuit brought the court-ordered “drought” from 2007 to 2010.
Now the NRDC is launching a disinformation campaign to divert the public’s attention from the bigger water issues of the Sacramento Delta. On Sept. 16, [...]

By Chriss Street | CalWatchdog
SACRAMENTO — State Controller John Chiang shocked California legislators today when he sent a letter announcing that the state will run out of cash on March 8. That is, unless Legislature allows state Treasurer Bill Lockyer to delay $2.4 billion in payments to universities, counties and Medi-Cal, while borrowing another $3.3 [...]

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By Wayne Lusvardi | CalWatchdog
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown just proposed a new idea for financing California’s $100 billion high-speed rail project: Use the fees from the state’s Cap and Trade emission taxation program to fund it.
This new hybrid between Cap and Trade and High-Speed Rail is likely to be dubbed “Cap ‘N Train.”
What [...]

By Katy Grimes | CalWatchdog
SACRAMENTO – The carburetor is losing the battle in California. Instead of acknowledging that auto designers and manufacturers are continually refining the internal combustion engine for efficiency, global warming activists want to scrap the engine.

In an attempt to rid the world of global warming, on Friday the California Air Resources Board announced new [...]