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Back to homepagePension deniers attempt to shame reform advocates
May 16, 2012 By Brian Calle If you have not read or heard anything about California’s unfunded public employee pension crisis, you’ve probably been living under a rock or, like union bosses and too many members of the state Legislature,
Read MoreJP Morgan fiasco means higher interest rates ahead
May 15, 2012 By Chriss Street If there was an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award for the best acting performance by a CEO, Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan Bank would surely win the Oscar for his dismissal
Read MoreWalter Russell Mead calls Calif. a ‘failed state’
May 15, 2012 By John Seiler One centrist Democrat I’ve read for years is Walter Russell Mead. He writes the Via Meadea blog for the American Interest. The name is a pun on several levels: his name, mead the beverage,
Read MoreBullet Trains, Green Jobs and ‘The War Between Data and Storytelling’
May 15, 2012 By Chris Reed SAN DIEGO — The smug, insufferably superior politics of the faculty lounge have gone mainstream on the Left in the past decade to the point where many “progressive” pundits and Democratic lawmakers openly act
Read MoreHas Jerry Brown’s budget deficit become a cliche?
May 15, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Has California’s legendary structural budget deficit evolved into an overworked and obsolescent cliche? This is a question to be asked of Gov. Jerry Brown announcement yesterday that the state general fund budget deficit has
Read MoreNew Brown budget pushes tax increases
May 14, 2012 By Brian Calle Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies, in predictable fashion, are using California’s latest $16 billion budget black hole as a tool to justify big tax hikes. Brown did so today in presenting the May
Read MoreBook Review: The higher Street to public management
May 14, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi When I first started working for Los Angeles County government decades ago, it was what might have been called “republican” (with a small “r”). Decision-making was delegated down to the managerial and supervisorial level.
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Brown’s new budget attacks producers
May 14, 2012 By John Seiler Gov. Jerry Brown’s May Revise to his 2012-13 budget proposal, released today, only will club more producers into leaving the state. It calls for $8.5 billion in tax increases from the initiative he is
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