Meg's Sell-Out Earns Union $$$

Steven Greenhut: GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s sell out on pension reform — she’s for reform, but has exempted most public safety employees from the lower benefit — is paying off in the form of a large independent expenditure from

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Feds Launch Delta Land Grab

OCT. 7, 2010 By KATY GRIMES The California Legislature has already passed groundbreaking legislation addressing the fragile Delta region, but some California Delta and water experts believe there is a plan to develop a conservancy in the region, as well

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Superfund's Plodding Cleanup

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

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Are Smaller Parties Finished?

OCT. 7, 2010 For someone who may be the last of her kind, Laura Wells is remarkably chipper – even when talking about the new law that has made her essentially obsolete. “Prop. 14? I hope it has a boomerang

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A Brief Quarrel With Briefs

Anthony Pignataro: Those guys over at the California Senate Office of Research have it pretty good. It’s a non-partisan shop set up back in 1969. Their job, according to their ABOUT SOR webpage: “serving the research needs of the California

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