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Archive for the 'LA Times' Michael Hiltzik' Category

Non-Business As Usual in the LA Times “Business” Section

Sunday, June 19th, 2005 by Insider

The title of Los Angeles Times Business Section columnist Michael Hiltzik’s new book pretty much says it all:  “The Plot Against Social Security : How the Bush Plan Is Endangering Our Financial Future.” 
Hiltzik was plugging his book on Janeane Garofalo’s Air America on June 15th, the day before his ridiculously-titled column, “The Cost of Buffing […]

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The LA Times’ Michael Hiltzik: A Self-Contained Guano Ecosystem

Friday, June 17th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

Michael Hiltzik used his “business” column in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times to make another over-the-top attack on Governor Schwarzenegger and the fall initiatives.
In a meandering piece that closed with Hiltzik comparing Schwarzenegger to Joseph McCarthy, he cites “fake,” “shameless” “low blows” and “baldfaced lie(s)” with examples that mysteriously only include Republicans.
“I expect to spend the […]

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The LA Times’ Michael Hiltzik — Predictably Wrong About California’s Fiscal Problems

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik was at it again Monday, ranting against the Schwarzenegger administration and supporting California Assembly Democrats’ call for higher marginal tax rates, with 10% on incomes from $285k to $570k and 11% on income above that.
We noted last week that Hiltzik and his compadres in the Democratic party have managed to […]

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Somebody get a tranquilizer gun, quick!

Thursday, May 5th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

LA Times business reporter Michael Hiltzik frothed at the mouth again as he wrapped up his Thursday business column, which was nominally about the California ballot initiative to prevent public employee union dues from being used for political purposes without annual affirmation by each individual union member:
“… Schwarzenegger’s studied indifference to the public employee initiative […]

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