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Are sports stars shunning California?

JULY 13, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Americans recently took a day off from worrying about the Gulf oil spill to wonder where basketball superstar and MVP LeBron James would choose to shoot hoops. According to reports, he might have chosen

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Does John Chiang have a Boss?

JULY 12, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Who is California state Controller John Chiang’s boss? The answer is surprisingly elusive. Right now, it appears that Chiang doesn’t even answer to the governor or the executive branch, much less the state’s judiciary.

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Teams spared to promote equality

July 12, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI Add “gender inequality” to the growing lists of frivolous objections to cuts in state-funded programs. The Select Committee on Gender Discrimination will meet this evening to put a moratorium on UC Davis Chancellor Linda

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Pension 'pain train' coming

JULY 8, 2010 By KATY GRIMES California’s private sector employees are not only paying for their own pensions and retirement funds, they are paying for the pensions of public sector employees, according to Governor Schwarzenegger. In his pension fund roundtable

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LA to shift sidewalk burden

JULY 6, 2010 By TORI RICHARDS As the infrastructure crumbles throughout California, the sidewalks laid down during the first half of the last century have no immunity. Initially responsible for the slab of concrete in front of their homes, Los

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Mulling a majority-vote budget

JULY 6, 2010 By JOHN SEILER With yet another state budget not passed by the July 1 beginning of the fiscal year, Democrats and their union allies are putting the blame on California’s two-thirds supermajority rule for passing a budget

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3 plans, no budget

JULY 2, 2010 The governor has a budget proposal. Democratic senators have a budget proposal. Assembly Speaker John Perez and the Assembly Democrats have a budget proposal. Does Mrs. Smith’s 10th grade civics class also have a budget proposal? With

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Pensions a policy disaster

JULY 2, 2010 By K. LLOYD BILLINGSLEY In May, The Economist judged California a “lean” state, where waste is hard to find, based on the single measure of state employees per 10,000 residents. In “Sanity in the offing?” in the

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Legislators ignore budget mess

JULY 1, 2010 By KATY GRIMES With the Legislature continuing to work on every possible frivolous or taxation issue except the budget, many are expecting one of California’s legislators to let loose with, “Let them eat cake,” when the taxed

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