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A State Refund Coming Back? Here’s 15 Places to Donate Some of It
It’s tax ciphering crunch time.
If there’s a potential refund coming, the state has created 15 options to donate some of that cash to various causes.
There’s one new tax check-off for 2011 to be found on Page 3 of the Franchise Tax Board’s Form 540. It’s a fund to help child victims of human trafficking. Read more »
The Graying of California
“The state should see more than a 50 percent increase in the population over age 65” between now and 2020, according to the Legislative Analyst’s California Facts for 2011.
Some 10,000 Baby Boomers are turning 65 every day — and will continue to do so for 19 years.
About 4.4 million Californians are over 65, 11.5 percent of the population. Read more »
The More Things Change…
“California voters are notoriously fickle and cross party lines at the drop of a good pension plan.”
—TIME, November 19, 1945 Read more »
What Do You Place on the ‘Worthwhile’ List, Governor?…
“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.”
–Earl Warren, born March 19, 1891
Jeff Bethke Is a Viral Phenomenon. Here’s His First You Tube Video: “Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus
(Here’s a Time profile of Behtke) Read more »
The Better The Teacher…
“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.
“For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”
— Warren Buffett Read more »
To Qualify His New Initiative for the November Ballot, Gov. Brown Faces an Almost Impossibly Tight Deadline
Gov. Jerry Brown’s alliance with the California Federation of Teachers and their creation of a new hybrid tax increase measure means one less such proposal on the November ballot.
If it can get on the ballot.
An initiative seeking a spot on the November ballot must qualify by June 28.
The law sets the qualification deadline at 131 days prior to Election Day. Read more »
Not the First Time This Has Been Said, Nor the Last…
“Great difficulty is experienced by discharged convicts in obtaining employment.
“In many cases the convict leaves in impaired health and unable to work if he could find employment. He has neither money nor friends.
“What is to become of him? He has made up his mind to lead an honest life but he cannot live on resolves alone. Read more »
Long-time Capitol Lobbyist and Political Mentor Rod Blonien Dies at 65
Rob Blonien, a long-time Sacramento lobbyist who influenced the careers of some of the Capitol’s most powerful players, died March 12 of a heart attack at his Sacramento home. He was 65.
Even-keeled, ebullient and steadfast, Blonien was one of the original triumvirate of top aides to Gov. George Deukmejian after his 1982 election serving first as his legislative secretary and then as undersecretary of the Department of Corrections, spearheading the GOP governor’s prison building program and effectively running the agency. Read more »
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