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Back to homepageSteinberg no longer fights budget cuts
JAN. 24, 2011 By DAVE ROBERTS Just a few months ago Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg excoriated then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $1 billion budget cut for social services, calling it “misguided, cruel, unnecessary and preventable,” according to the Los Angeles
Read MoreIs Brown Dodging Pension Reform?
JAN. 24, 2011 At a League of California Cities event in Sacramento, Gov. Jerry Brown promised local officials struggling under the weight of pay and benefit costs that he would, indeed, put forward pension-reform proposals in the coming weeks. Yet
Read MoreSchwarzenegger Was The Acting Governor
JAN. 24. 2011 This article was first published in City Journal. By STEVEN GREENHUT As Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped down as governor of California, he could behold two dispiriting sights: a state struggling with structural budget deficits, just as it had
Read MoreState Officials Ignore Ed Alternatives
JAN. 24, 2011 The news is not good for college students in California, or at least that’s what lawmakers want everyone to believe. Earlier this week a legislative committee held a formal hearing at the Capitol to discuss the governor’s
Read MoreCalifornia Should Declare Bankruptcy
John Seiler: If you’ve been reading CalWatchDog.com, you know I’ve written in favor of the state declaring bankruptcy. As I wrote back in April: There are couple of things to note here. First, for a family of four, $7,220 is
Read MoreVallejo Is Dying
John Seiler: Newsweek listed the Top 10 cities in America that are dying. No. 1 is New Orleans, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. No. 2 is Vallejo, which has suffered more than any other city from the Schwarzenegger Decade
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