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How accurate are high-speed rail jobs reports?

How many jobs is the California high-speed rail project creating? As California’s unemployment rate remains above the national number, it’s a crucial question. The California High-Speed Rail Authority has numbers of jobs created as of April. As reported by

L.A. restaurants make plain there’s no such thing as a free lunch

Chris Reed September 4, 2014

Is it a passive-aggressive way for independent businesses to let customers know about the cost of government regulation? Or just a trick that allows those businesses to charge more than they normally would without prompting grousing from their customers? Whatever

CA Democrats’ ritual: Passing doomed gun laws to media cheers

Chris Reed September 3, 2014

House Republicans face fire from many quarters for the dozens of times they have voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and the critics sometimes aren’t just the usual partisan soldiers. Plenty of editorial boards are incensed by this tactic. They say

After gamble backfires, L.A. demands refund from banks

Wayne Lusvardi September 2, 2014

In the San Francisco Bay area, public transit riders are paying $104 million in higher rider fees to cover the cost of exotic financial insurance known as an interest rate swap. In Detroit, the inability of the city to

Teacher compensation database undercuts CTA claims

Chris Reed September 2, 2014

The Transparency California group’s database of school district compensation undercuts teacher unions’ claims that teacher pay scales are ungenerous and capped at unfairly low levels. When very generous health benefits and good pension benefits are factored in, that doesn’t look