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Recent Columns:
Of all the ways in which California residents have slit their fiscal throats over the last 30 years, surely the most inexplicable is the bestowal of a gaping tax loophole on commercial and industrial property owners.
Pierce O’Donnell wants you to know he's back in business.
John Wooden can still identify the worst step he ever took in his retirement planning.
The art of setting automobile insurance rates is incomprehensible to most of us civilians. Liability coverage, comprehensive insurance, assigned risk pools, discounts, surcharges . . . the list goes on. Just try to figure out how your carrier arrived at the figure at the bottom of your itemized bill -- I know nuclear physicists who can't do that math.
Two encounters with the phenomenon of Michael Jackson:
As the Clinton White House discovered to its grief more than a decade ago, and the Obama White House is learning, no minefield of American politics is as uncharted and explosive as healthcare reform.
In the great circle of life known as the professional sports league calendar, we're about to follow up the crowning of the NBA champions with the ritual of the NBA draft.
The most persistent misconception about Californians is that we hate to raise taxes. The truth is that we adore raising taxes -- as long as someone else is paying, that is.
People who say that nothing's harder to get rid of than a bad penny must never have met Keith Brackpool.
No doubt it will come as a relief to all concerned that the controversy over the state's -- P-II EVR, for short -- has been mostly resolved.