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Calbuzz Classics: How to Think About Budget Mess



Watching the sad spectacle of Governor Gandalf yet again expounding on California’s budget horrors Monday was like going to see one of those dreadful, anemic sequels to a long-ago tapped-out blockbuster franchise. “Jaws 5: Devouring the Poor,” maybe, or “Die Hard Drowning in Red Ink” or even, “Groundhog Day 2: Punxsutawney Phil’s May… »

CA Forward Reformers Sail Into the Perfect Storm


The party line says California Forward is sailing steadily towards approval of its bipartisan reform agenda for repairing state government, either with a ballot initiative or through a legislative substitute that would satisfy critics on the left and right. Behind the scenes, however, the group… »

Bully Boy Willard Mitt Romney: Lord of the Lies


Here’s the key sentence in Jason Horowitz’s meticulously reported story of Mitt Romney’s sadistic assault on John Lauber, a younger, apparently closeted gay student at the prestigious private Cranbrook School when he was a teen: “As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help,… »

Romney’s a ‘Faker,’ Barney Frank Tells Our Pal Hank


Retiring Democratic Represent- ative Barney Frank dishes to Calbuzz Palm Springs Bureau Chief Hank Plante about Mitt Romney’s record as governor of Massachu- setts, his role in Wall Street… »

Mittonomics, Smarmy Brad, MIAs and Other Irritants


As regular Calbuz- zers know, we are normally a model of probity and rectitude. But today we’re feeling the urge to vent about some of the things that have,… »

Press Clips: It’s (Way Past) Time for Pete Stark to Go


All right-thinking people agree that Debra Saunders, the Chronicle’s token house conservative columnist, is woefully misguided on a vast number of political and policy issues. One thing she is… »

Rove Fingerprints on Romney’s Attacks on Obama


Wayne Slater is a top-rank Texas political writer and co-author of “Bush’s Brain,” a book about the life and times of Republican uber-strategist Karl Rove. In an interview several… »

Psst: Jerry Brown is Opposed to the Death Penalty


Jerry Brown, who convinced his father the governor, in 1960 to temporarily spare the life of Red Light Bandit Caryl Chessman, and who joined a vigil to protest the… »

Press Clips: Nadia and Rupert Meet Geena and Kim


As the East Bay turns: Amid the reams of coverage about the whole Nadia Lockyer drugs/booze/sex/email/missing person/politics scandal, the smartest piece we’ve read came from Chip Johnson, the Chronicle’s… »

The Politics of TMI: Three Arguments Against Twitter


As sheer hypoc- risy, the spectacle of Cal- buzz criticizing Twitter ranks right up there with Paula Deen attacking butter, Jose Canseco bashing steroids or Jerry Brown banning Teilhard… »

How the FPPC Can Legally Expose Sock Puppets


We were more than a little con- cerned when we read last week that Ann Ravel, chairwoman of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission, was considering regulations requiring bloggers to… »

Press Clips: Pippa, Kim K Star on Prince Gavin Show


Within the tangled Politics-Media-Entertainment complex, it’s hard to find two people more self-absorbed, self-important and self-regarding than Kim Kardashian and Gavin Newsom. That’s why our Department of Pilot Script… »

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