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CalPERS’ $100K club increases 900%

Let the good times roll! for those getting pensions from the California Public Employees Retirement System, anyway. The Register reported: Back in 2005, some 1,841 retirees pulled down more than $100,000 a year in pension checks from the California Public

CA advances driver’s licenses for illegals

James Poulos October 22, 2014

Despite incomplete approval from the federal government, California has begun forging ahead with driver’s licenses for immigrants who are illegally present in California. A bill signed into law last year, Assembly Bill 60, was subject to additional requirements by the Department

Has CA ranch found cheap route to carbon containment? Maybe

Chris Reed October 22, 2014

If a recent San Francisco Chronicle story is right, the problem posed by carbon and other greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere — which most scientists think will play havoc with the climate — might just have a cheap, low-tech

Stormwater tax drowns voters

Wayne Lusvardi October 21, 2014

California is embarking on a program of capturing storm water from flood control channels for urban landscaping at high costs. And stormwater capture projects won’t require voter approval under Proposition 218, the Right to Vote on Taxes Act, because courts have

Federal official calls for regulating CA medical marijuana

John Seiler October 21, 2014

For once, the Feds have a point. Outgoing Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole has helped alter President Obama’s prohibitionist attitude on state marijuana laws toward one accommodating the differences among the 50 states. In an interview with the Los Angeles

VIDEO: Is California becoming the boring state?

CalWatchdog Staff October 20, 2014

Demographics are not on the side of the Golden State. The people we need to live here are leaving. Reason Magazine’s Editor Matt Welch joins CalWatchdog’s James Poulos to talk about his greatest fear of all: California gets boring.

Covered CA caught in Prop. 45 crossfire

James Poulos October 20, 2014

On Proposition 45, some Democrats are feeling as if they got a transfusion of the wrong blood type. The initiative would give the state insurance commissioner the power to approve changes in health-insurance policies, including those by Covered California, this state’s implementation

CA unemployment drops to 7.3%

John Seiler October 20, 2014

Perhaps Gov. Jerry Brown’s campaign slogan is right: “California is back.” Unemployment dropped to 7.3 percent in September, down from 8.8 percent a year ago. Except the national rate is 5.9 percent. So California clearly is just following the national recovery,

PRI-Forum for Corporate Directors discussion Oct. 23

John Seiler October 20, 2014

The Pacific Research Institute, CalWatchdog.com’s parent think tank, is partnering with the Forum for Corporate Directors in a breakfast panel discussion Thursday, Oct. 23 from 7-9 a.m. Location: The Westin South Coast Plaza, 686 Anton Blvd., Costa Mesa, CA 92626.