An Orange County Register editorial, January 15, 2010 6:38 AM

It's shaping up as a bad season in Sacramento. A legislative committee this week killed a badly needed bill to overturn the Draconian AB32 – the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act – with its onerous costs and regulations that will punish nearly every sector of California's economy, certainly aggravating already dire conditions. Another committee voted to impose yet another tax,

Ten months into President Barack Obama’s first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has found.