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Katy Grimes: Friday, The Sacramento Bee went out on a limb lauding Gov. Jerry Brown’s recent political appointments, specifically patting Brown on the back for naming Democrat John Laird , amongst others, as Natural Resources Secretary. Laird, was just rejected
Read MoreMonday Is Budget Day
Steven Greenhut: The new governor will introduce his budget at 11 am on Monday. Expect it to be austere and used as an argument for higher taxes.
Read MorePulling Back CalPERS' Ethics Curtain
JAN. 7, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The Securities and Exchange Commission has exposed the self-righteous CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System, as no longer the self-anointed ethical wizards of pension funds. L. Frank Baum wrote that when he started
Read MoreConway's Discipline Problem
JAN. 7, 2011 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO State Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway has a real discipline problem. Not with her family, or her staff, but with her Republican caucus, and the ruthless arithmetic that governs it. Of the 80 members
Read MoreHigh-Speed Revolving Door
Anthony Pignataro: You don’t have to watch politics very long before you see that top people move more or less freely from the public sector — where they develop much expertise at taxpayer expense — to the private sector —
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