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Category Archives: California
Predicting A Person By His Choice Of Spouse
Instapundit says about CA Governor Arnold: “You could have predicted this [fiscal irresponsibility and shift left] just from knowing that Arnold was married to Maria Shriver. If you want to know whether a male Republican politician is likely to go … Continue reading
Posted in California, Marriage
Tagged arnold schwarzenegger, combating climate change, fiscal irresponsibility, governor arnold, high speed rail, instapundit, joel kotkin, maria shriver, republican politician
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Reforming CA’s Tax System
Yisroel Pensack writes: A Chula Vista attorney has submitted a proposal to the California Attorney General’s office for a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the state’s tax system via the voter initiative and referendum process. Frank D. Walker, 58, the … Continue reading
Posted in California, Economics
Tagged annual incomes, california attorney general, income tax rate, state income tax, state income tax rate, voter initiative
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California’s High Tax, High Benefit Package Not Working
From the Los Angeles Times: Overall, the Census Bureau’s latest data show that state and local government expenditures for all purposes in 2005-06 were 46.8% higher in California than in Texas: $10,070 per person compared with $6,858. Only three states … Continue reading
Posted in California
Tagged government expenditures, government outlays, haul trucks, internal migration, migration patterns, state and local governments
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Orthodox Life In Northern California?
Michael emails: I stumbled across your site today, and got a sense that you have a good feel for Jewish life in Northern California. Is there no Orthodox life to be found north of SF and Berkeley? Seems so beautiful … Continue reading
Posted in California, Orthodoxy
Tagged jewish life, northern california, northern frontier, orthodox life, wife and kid
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‘Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California’
Here is the Amazon.com page for the book and here is the website for the author Frances Dinkelspiel. We did this interview a couple of weeks ago via email. I told Frances to only answer the questions she found interesting. … Continue reading
Posted in Author Interviews, California, Jews
Tagged amazon, hall dances, jewish immigrant, teutonic hall, uc berkeley library, wilshire boulevard temple
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