'Almost non-existent'

The Legislative Analyst’s Office released their long-awaited 2010-11 Budget Analysis this afternoon, and it’s not likely anyone will have any trouble finding the money quote: “While the odds seem favorable for some federal relief sought by the administration, we believe the likelihood

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Arnold's top achievement

Gov. Arnold’s more than six years in office have been pretty dismal. He never “blew up the boxes” of government waste, as he promised. He never came close to solving the state’s endemic budget deficits. But there’s one area where

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Voter ID bill disenfranchised

Jan. 12, 2010 By KATY GRIMES A bill designed to combat voter fraud was disenfranchised in the state Senate’s elections committee after a close vote and plenty of testimony in opposition. The committee heard testimony of the bill proposed by

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PRI'S CALWATCHDOG SEEKS TO EXPOSE WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE IN THE STATE

Steven Greenhut on FlashReport January 11, 2010 [Publisher’s Note: We here at the FlashReport couldn’t be more excited and thrilled than we are with the launch of the Pacific Research Institute’s CalWatchDog project.  When you finish reading this piece by

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Is FI$Cal doomed?

And now it’s time to talk about the Financial Information System for California, which is known colloquially by the obscenely cutesy acronym FI$Cal. It doesn’t get a lot of press, but this project—conceived back in 2007 as an “historic partnership” between

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