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OCT. 7, 2010 GAO Report Questions EPA’s Ability to Finance Toxic Cleanups in a Timely Manner By J.T. LONG After 30 years and an estimated $33 billion spent to clean up toxic waste sites, taxpayers still have a mess on
Read MoreUC Davis Cops Mum On Fraud Scandal
OCT. 5, 2010 By LLOYD BILLINGSLEY UC Davis Police are still playing it close to the vest in an investigation, dating from 2009, of a former UC Davis employee alleged to have misappropriated funds. “Our investigation is ongoing,” UC Davis
Read MoreStudy Says Public Pay Out Of Line
OCT. 5, 2010 A new California think tank is releasing a new study Wednesday on reforming public employee pay and pensions. We reprint the entire study here today with permission from the California Center for Public Policy. CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR
Read MoreDMV May Investigate Whitman Nanny
OCT. 5, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Gloria Allred may have opened a can of worms when she introduced Nicky Diaz Santillian, gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s housekeeper, who is apparently an illegal immigrant. Allred is already being accused of using a client
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New ‘Green’ Law Is Union Giveaway
OCT. 4, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Will a new law mandating green power storage facilities along green pathway electric transmission lines paradoxically result in short circuiting green power in California? Or is this new law mostly symbolic to help Jerry
Read MoreBig Green Dries Out Big Valley
OCT. 1, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT When most people think of California, they think obviously enough about the populous and influential coastal cities, from the gleaming Southern California coast to the Bay Area. But east of the coastal ranges and
Read MoreBlowing Smoke Against Prop. 19
SEPT. 30, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Maybe the most controversial, certainly the most aromatic proposition on the November 2 ballot is Proposition 19, which would decriminalize marijuana. Not just for medical uses, but for use by any adult. Local governments
Read MoreProp 24: Fairness or Penalty?
SEPT. 30, 2010 By KATY GRIMES It’s not so unusual to hear people making disparaging comments about one another at the Capitol. However, it was shocking to hear the executive director of the California Budget Project call the research of
Read MoreConflicted Pols Pushed To Resign
SEPT. 30, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Apparently, the state attorney general only recently discovered that two California High-Speed Rail Authority board members have other jobs that my conflict with their bullet train responsibilities. Richard Katz and Curt Pringle are long-time
Read MoreHuber Touts Transparency Agenda
SEPT. 28, 2010 By KATY GRIMES When a Democratic legislator claims to have a more conservative voting record than Republican Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, it must be either an election year or the Republican is no conservative. Or both. In
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