Posts tagged regulation

• Medical Marijuana, ID Cards, and Sacramento County

  Amber Wheat | December 18, 2008 4:19 PM | 8 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Since 1996, medicinal use of marijuana for certain medical cases has been legal in California. In 2003, the state decided that ID cards should be issued on the county level to identify patients who...

• NYT: Bush Aides Hurry to Pass Contentious Labor Department Rule

  Paul Kiesel | December 02, 2008 2:25 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  President Bush has said that he wants to work with President-elect Obama to make the transition process as smooth as possible. Logically, this makes sense for the greater good of the country,...

• The New Yorker: Bush's Midnight Hour of Deregulation

  Paul Kiesel | November 17, 2008 8:35 PM | 2 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Below is an article from this week's New Yorker on President Bush's last-minute push to pass everything he has can in the final days of his presidency, between now and January 20, 2009, which is...

• White House to Ease Many Rules Aimed at Protecting Consumers

  Paul Kiesel | October 31, 2008 6:41 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Media outlets and blogs have been reporting for the past two weeks that the White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, which would strip many government rules that protect...

• Governor Vetos “Lap-Dog” Bill

  Amber Wheat | September 29, 2008 2:35 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The governor is finally working through the 766 bills that crossed his desk during the budget crisis. Among these was AB2233. Brought by Assemblyman Bill Maze, the bill was meant to outlaw the...

• Citrus Heights Installed Traffic Cameras in Two Intersections where Fatal Collisions Occurred

  Amber Wheat | September 18, 2008 12:14 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This is how a city is supposed to respond to incidents like this. Let’s face it, people do not always obey the law. It is nearly impossible to think that a government body could prevent collisions...

• The Subprime Mess and Phil Gramm: An Experiment in Deregulation

  Paul Kiesel | June 24, 2008 4:12 PM | 9 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In 1933, a few years following the stock market crash, Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act, in hopes that regulating banks will help prevent market instability, particularly amongst Wall Street...

• Lending Regulation Bills to be Voted on in Sacramento

  Paul Kiesel | June 18, 2008 8:54 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee will be taking a look at various bills related to the subprime mortgage mess, that are being brought to this committee in hopes that it will prevent the...

• Why the Mortgage Industry Needs to be Regulated

  Paul Kiesel | May 28, 2008 8:01 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Consumer crusader Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law professor, has a great blog that particularly focuses on the ambiguities and sometimes "bald-face" fraud that takes place in the mortgage...