CalPERS Re-elects Top Leaders

John Seiler: According to the latest issue of PERSpective (government pun), the magazine that just was mailed out to retirees of the the California Public Employees’ Retirement System: Members of the CalPERS Board of Administration unanimously re-elected Rob Feckner to

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State’s most sickening building

JUNE 22, 2010 By KATY GRIMES The Board of Equalization employees are sick of work. Actually, they are sick because of work. The BOE headquarters building has been making employees sick, and the state has known it for several years.

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Have we got a job for you

Steven Greenhut: The California Redevelopment Association — those friendly central planners who argue that the government should have the right to take virtually anyone’s property and give it to a Costco or other tax-generating corporation — is looking for a

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Deflating green-jobs bubble

JUNE 22, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The California Jobs Initiative on the upcoming November ballot would suspend the green power provisions of Assembly Bill 32 (AB32) – the Global Warming Solutions Act – until the unemployment rate drops to 5.5

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Skelton's "pension envy"

John Seiler: It’s a bad Freudian connotation to an fraudulent Freudian doctrine, but here’s what L.A. Times’ Columnist for Tax Raising George “Not Red” Skelton wrote today: “Pressured by politicians and a private sector with pension envy, four public employee

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Raising Revenue, Democrat Party Style

Katy Grimes: Restructuring, local control, and raising revenue were all the rage at a press conference held today at the state capitol. Held by Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, and Senator Denise Moreno Ducheny, D-San Diego, “restructuring,” “raising

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Under the Influence Of Bad Legislation

JUNE 21, 2010 Sounding like a prediction from George Orwell’s 1984, after July 1 the counties of Sacramento, Los Angeles, Tulare and Alameda will require first-time convicted drunk drivers to install ignition lock devices in their vehicles. We are supposed

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Inside CalWatchdog!

Anthony Pignataro: The following is a transcipt of an actual conversation that took place this morning at CalWatchdog’s world headquarters in Sacramento, California: ANTHONY PIGNATARO: Oh, this is good! KATY GRIMES: What? PIGNATARO: SB 624 — Gloria Romero’s new bill

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Another economic dip coming?

JUNE 21, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Here’s something Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown should be debating. As the California budget is haggled over by the governor, Legislature and the powerful government unions, one thing everyone assumes is that the California

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