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CA officials can use private email

Hillary Clinton has made headlines in recent weeks for using private email for official U.S. government business when she was secretary of state. Federal law mandates that all such business be conduced on public email systems that are archived. The

San Francisco could drop voting age to 16

John Seiler March 20, 2015

With shades of the 1960s Youth Movement, San Francisco might drop its voting age to 16 from 18. Doing so only would affect city elections, as other elections are affected by state and federal voting laws. Yet Fog City often has

VIDEO: Napolitano won’t take ‘crap’ from students

John Seiler March 19, 2015

University of California President Janet Napolitano apparently didn’t realize the mic was on. Talking to to Board of Regents Chairman Bruce Varner about student-protest chants, she said, “Let’s just break. Let’s go, let’s go. We don’t have to listen to this crap.”

Courts: Maybe public pensions can be cut

John Seiler March 19, 2015

One theme CalWatchdog.com has covered over the years is that public pension programs are not sacrosanct. Although the general interpretation of the California Constitution is that the pensions must be paid — no matter what — if there’s no money,

Ships still at sea from dock strike

John Seiler March 18, 2015

Anyone along the coast of Los Angeles and Orange County still can see the giant cargo ships stranded by the dock strike — which was resolved last month. The ships normally slip in and out of Los Angeles-Long Beach harbors and

Special Election: Moorlach wins, Glazer advances to run-off for CA Senate

John Seiler March 18, 2015

Two reformers, one a Republican the other a Democrat, won yesterday’s contested races for the California Senate. But the Democrat will face a difficult runoff. With 100 percent of precincts “partially reporting,” according to the California Secretary of State, here