Steve Greenhut joins Gadfly tomorrow, April 3rd! Here’s a taste…
Steven Greenhut: Bankruptcy may be only way out for cities, states| bankruptcy, unions, reform – Opinion – The Orange County Register Feb 24, 2012 The problem in the public sector is that government...
View ArticleDesperate Means to Stop a Bellwether Measure
Steven Greenhut Reform by Any Other Name Call it “modification” if you prefer—but San Jose’s pension initiative will be a national bellwether. 17 April 2012 San Jose union officials are celebrating a...
View ArticleHow Big Government Is Killing California
When you’ve lost the entrepreneurs, free-spirits, and dreamers, you’ve lost the Golden State. Steven Greenhut | April 27, 2012 The new USC study pointing to a much-slower population growth rate in...
View ArticleGovernment is not the answer! How does Govt make life worse? Steven Greenhut...
Entrepreneurs take risks. They often fail, but they sometimes make great strides forward. Government employees, on the other hand, go to jobs where they cannot be fired except in the most extreme...
View ArticleDoes Being GOP “Moderates” equal Being Unprincipled, Tax Hiking, Union Backers.
Schwarzenegger’s Bizarre Analysis Steven Greenhut: I love it when politicians have their chance in power, squander their opportunities, then spend the rest of their career lecturing us about how to...
View ArticleThe Occupy Protesters are a mish mosh of divergent factions, but at least...
“The problem is not with one agency, but with the vast expansion of federal and state government, which takes our money and freedoms and leaves a path of destruction wherever it goes. Sure the Occupy...
View ArticleShould I Stay or Should I go? Greenhut says Conservatives should stay in CA
Yes, There’s a Case for Staying in California: Steven Greenhut “Just as California progressives view their first-in-the-nation ideas such as cap-and-trade as a means to push the entire nation to the...
View ArticleJerry Brown is the Great Dissembler
Steven Greenhut | More Gimmicks, Less Honesty | California continues to play budget games | 17 May 2012 As the Sacramento Bee reports, “The state budget deficit had grown by a remarkable 70 percent...
View ArticleWhy is the GOP forever shrinking in CA? It’s the incongruity!
Steven Greenhut: If you wonder why the GOP is having such hard times, one need only look at the goings-on in Orange County, where Republican Party Chairman Scott Baugh is pulling out all the stops to...
View ArticleCA Assembly passes bill to protect “public servants” from investigative...
“The state is about to destroy the most significant source of public records, and create an open invitation to fraud and theft in order to combat a phantom threat. The bill was introduced by a...
View ArticleReal Progressives who authentically care about the poor should support Gov...
GREENHUT: Real progressives should support WI’s Scott Walker By Watchdog Staff / May 30, 2012 / “…once-proud movement of working people who fought oppression has morphed into an upper-middle-class...
View ArticleIn “A Progressive’s Progress” Greenhut writes about what one authentic...
Steven Greenhut A Progressive’s Progress San Jose mayor Chuck Reed shows how Democrats can take the lead on public-pension reform. 30 May 2012 Skyrocketing compensation costs for public employees are...
View ArticleAnd Now Act 2 of the Dramatic Situation Between the Runnaway Train, i.e. the...
Here’s a link and a excerpt: San Jose’s mayor addresses legal challenges – Public Sector Inc. Forum By Steven Greenhut on June 6 Pull Quote: San Jose’s unions didn’t really fight the Measure B pension...
View ArticleSteve Greenhut’s Take on the 2012 Fullerton Recall–People taking their...
Libertarian columnist Steve Greenhut wrote a recap on the Fullerton Recall, and put it in the context of people taking their governments back. He had lots of good things to say about the Recall and...
View ArticleWell It Looks Like Law Makers in Sacramento Do Have a Limit to How Much They...
Steven Greenhut on California Lawmakers Pushing Back Against Police Secrecy June 22, 2012 It’s dangerous to read too much into some small signs of sanity at the California state Capitol, writes Steven...
View ArticleGreenhut writes: Governor Brown Celebrates ObamaCare Ruling
Not a surprise. Gov. Jerry Brown is happy with the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare ruling: “Today’s dramatic Supreme Court ruling removes the last roadblock to fulfilling President Obama’s historic plan to...
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Steven Greenhut on California’s Latest Misguided Effort to Fix the Housing...
Steven Greenhut on California’s Latest Misguided Effort to Fix the Housing Crisis Posted by Reason.com on Friday Jul 6th at 11:00am Just as the housing industry is showing signs of recovery,...
View ArticleGreenhut writes: First pensions, and now bankruptcy tsunami
July 12, 2012 By Steven Greenhut First Vallejo, then Stockton, then Mammoth Lakes and now San Bernardino. As Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach told Bloomberg News, the bankruptcy dominoes are...
View ArticleDebt Ridden Govt Agencies are Ganging Up on Little Guys–Predominanly Mexican...
I met Tuesday in Santa Ana with about 12 owners of catering trucks — mobile eateries that sell mostly Mexican food — and they told a disturbing tale of how the state’s Orwellian-named tax agency, the...
View ArticleNot the Mortgage Crisis, Not the Economy, but Foolishness! Greenhut calls it,...
“California’s exclusively Democratic leaders not only are unwilling to rein in the costs of benefits for their patrons, the public-sector unions, they have been erecting roadblocks in the paths of...
View ArticleSan Francisco Needs a Free Market, Not Free Water–My mother would call them...
Steven Greenhut writes in a column at Bloomberg.com: …ironic: “In the past, San Francisco environmentalists and the Chronicle have supported river restoration efforts on the Trinity and Klamath...
View ArticleAnaheim Riots Spotlight Need for Broad Police Reform–The city’s law...
Anaheim Riots Spotlight Need for Broad Police Reform The city’s law enforcement culture values aggressiveness over community policing. Steven Greenhut | Reason.com | July 27, 2012 While Anaheim Mayor...
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Stephen Downing on Redress for Anaheim, Wayne Lusvardi Outs the Big...
Tuesday, August 7, Retired L.A.P.D. Deputy Chief of Police, Stephen Downing, and Wayne Lusvardi join Martha Montelongo, with John Seiler, Managing Editor at CalWatchDog.com, and Ben Boychuk, Associate...
View ArticlePolice Unions Cross Line While Bullying Public Officials–California cops...
Steven Greenhut | August 31, 2012 California city officials typically spare police officers even modest reductions in the pay and pension packages that are a main source of local budget problems, even...
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Police Unions Employ Mob Style Tactics to Protect and Expand Their Power and...
Tuesday September 4, 2012, at 10 AM PT, Martha Montelongo, with John Seiler, Managing Editor at CalWatchDog.com welcome Adam Elmahrek, who, last Tuesday, reported on Police Unions Bullying City...
View ArticleA model for taking on unions-Chicago, not California: educational...
So writes Steven Greenhut in The Republican American, a CT based and online publication. It is hard for education reformers to be too optimistic about the post-strike prospects for Chicago schools…...
View ArticleSteven Greenhut writes about CA Enviornmentalists’ lastest Boondoggle
in California’s Latest Environmental Boondoggle The facts about Jerry Brown’s misguided plan to “save” the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. an excerpt: “The administration’s plan will tear up the Delta...
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