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FERC Denied Brown's Green Tax Hike

OCT. 25, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Back on July 15, in a story mainly reported in only trade journals and Web sites, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied Attorney General Jerry Brown’s appeal to put the cost of renewable

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Unions bow out of OC supe race

OCT. 25, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT Those Orange County political observers who have been awaiting a repeat of the June supervisorial grudge match that pitted pension-reforming Shawn Nelson, then a Fullerton councilman, against union-backed Anaheim Councilman Harry Sidhu must be

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Sharp Contrasts in Steinberg Debate

OCT. 22, 2010 By KATY GRIMES A little-publicized political debate ended up being quite charged Thursday evening at Sacramento State between incumbent Democrat Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, 20-year old Republican college student Marcel Weiland and libertarian Steve Torno.

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Public Pay Study Seems Bogus

OCT. 21, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT The media have been providing serious reporting about a “UC Berkeley” study showing that public employees earn a total salary and benefit package that’s about the same as those in the private sector. This

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State Pension Meltdown Coming

OCT. 21, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The independent Milken Institute has just released a report “Addressing California’s Pension Shortfalls” that has an alarming finding: assuming no corrections are made, the combined liability of the three major state pension funds (Cal-PERS,

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Does the CA Election Really Matter?

OCT. 21, 2010 By JOHN SEILER On Nov. 2 Californians face the most important election in decades, deciding the governorship, a U.S. Senate seat that could tip the Senate into the Republican camp, legislative and local races and several crucial

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Boxer's Bailout Outsources Jobs

OCT. 20, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer has accused her opponent, Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard, of outsourcing jobs. But by voting for HR1586, the State Bail Out Bill, it is apparently Barbara Boxer who

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Pension Debt Vastly Understated

OCT. 20, 2010 By DAVE ROBERTS The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is considering changing the rules for government pension reporting to better reflect the financial status of the plans, but critics say the proposed changes don’t go far enough

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Steinberg To Debate 20-Year-Old Foe

OCT. 19, 2010 By KATY GRIMES In this election cycle, there are many new faces as well as underdog candidates. But there is none so new and fresh as that of a young outsider, or “outlier” as Howard Dean quipped

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How Not To Fix A Broken State

OCT. 19, 2010 This book review was first published in City Journal. By STEVEN GREENHUT California Crackup: How Reform Broke The Golden State And How We Can Fix It, by Joe Mathews and Mark Paul (University of California Press, 240

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