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Heads of the Pacific Coast side of the Fishery Management Council decided on Wednesday, April 8 to basically call off this year's salmon fishing season, after fears that the King/Chinook salmon population may be undersized and may be threatened by the additional fishing season, after a smaller number of the Sacramento River and Klamath River Chinooks migrated to California and Oregon this year. (One way that Pacific Coast fishery authorities have tried to alleviate the situation in the past has

With the passage of the bill calling for a 90 percent tax onthe AIG bonuses, the three-ring economic, political and media circuscentered around the AIG bonuses has now officially entered the realm ofabsurdity, and looks to be spending the remainder of its existencethere. And that circus is truly representative of everything that iswrong with the discourse surrounding the financial crisis and the Obamaadministration as of this moment, for in it one hears the dissonantnotes of envy, hypocrisy and

While legislatorstussle over how to fix the current gap in the state’s budgetdeficit, at least they addressed last summer’s budget deficit. Right? Maybe wrong. As part of thecompromise that closed that gap – then at around $17 billion –legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to put a ballotmeasure before voters sometime in 2009 that would borrow againstfuture lottery revenues, with the understanding voters had to givethe okay to overhaul the lottery in such a way as to increase itsr

Watching the conduct of Governor Schwarzenegger with respect toCalifornia's economy, one often feels a painful desire to slap the formerCyborg across the face and snap, "Don't just do something, stand there!" Unfortunately,the worst part is that if the governor obeyed such aninjunction, it would arguably do more for California's economy than all thehysterics that Schwarzenegger and his cabinet are engaging inover the current problems. Schwarzenegger would do well to remember the wordsof anothe

Around this time of the year, there are several seasons that come to mind, like the holiday season, the football season or even winter vegetables.  But thanks to resourceful party planners for our beloved state legislators, we now renew the time-honored tradition of the fundraising season. Both parties spent tens of million of dollars generated by contributions to defend an incumbent seat or gain a new one in June and November.  Of the 100 races in the Assembly and Senate, only a handful of con

Remember the old days when the only way to make a phone call in public was to cocoon yourself in a tiny glass case, shut the door, drop a few dimes and dial a number? What were those ancient relics of yesteryear called again? Ah, that's right, phone booths. Try to find one of those on a street corner today, and you'll probably be out of luck. It appears that the same fate might befall another similar space: The voting booth. According to data from the California Association of Clerks and Electe