◼ Video: Conn Carroll discusses this series - Conn Carroll/Washington Examiner @conncarroll
◼ Day 1: What happened to the Golden State? 2/24
California is no longer a model that other states want to or should emulate. It currently has the nation's third highest unemployment rate, its highest poverty rate and more than one-third of the nation's welfare recipients. What happened?
◼ Day 2: The California spending rush 2/25
California's budget is balanced ... or at least that is what Gov. Jerry Brown wants you to believe, now that he "temporarily" hiked taxes on all Californians by $6.8 billion last year. Part 2 of our five-part series.
◼ Day 3: California's expensive education failure 2/26
"Nothing is more determinative of our future than how we teach our children," California Gov. Jerry Brown said in his January State of the State address. "If we fail at this, we will sow growing social chaos and inequality that no law can rectify."
Bad news, governor: California is already failing its children. And it wasn't always this way.
◼ Day 4: California's green jobs bust 2/27
Fourth of a five-part series. It was supposed to be the next big thing. California built decades of broad-based prosperity from the Gold Rush, then Hollywood, then aerospace, and later Silicon Valley. At the turn of the century, "green jobs" were supposed to be the wave of the future....
◼ Day 5: Green state chokes off its middle class 2/28
For all the bed-wetting environmentalists do over how climate change might affect the present ecosystems of California, they always seem to conveniently forget what the state looked like before it joined the Union. Last of a five-part series.◼ California busted through spending limits to feed the unions and thereby tarnished its Golden State standing - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
Our California citizen groups beginning to plan new ballot measures to counter those that have tarnished our finances, as this is apt to be the most successful course to take in the 2014 election cycle. The Gann Limit shows the power of a good one.
