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Remember Pearl Harbor — 73 years ago
Most of us remember where we were on 9/11. Older baby boomers remember where they were when JFK was shot. The Greatest Generation, now almost all passed into eternity, remembers where they were on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese
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San Jose police union stalls officer cameras, cites ‘privacy’
Basic concepts of police professionalism were more or less born in Northern California, courtesy of a reform-minded police chief, as a history of law enforcement notes: August Vollmer, police chief in Berkeley, California, from 1905 to 1932, advocated the hiring
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LAO: No ‘fiscal cliff’ with end of Prop. 30 taxes
Someone should come up with a T-shirt reading, “STAY CALM AND LET PROP. 30 END.” Maybe sell it and make a few bucks for ya. At least before taxes. California Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor’s recent “The 2015-16 Budget: California’s Fiscal
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Vacancies trigger 2015 state Senate elections
The Nov. 4 vote didn’t end this election cycle, but sparked a new round. Three sitting state senators won seats in the U.S. House of Representatives: Sens. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Walnut Creek; Steve Knight, R-Antelope Valley; and Mimi Walters, R-Irvine. They will resign their positions in
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CalPERS retirees soon to surpass workers
Outgoing San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, the Democratic pension reformer, has a great joke. He says that, soon, his city will have a single employee; whose only job will be to mail pension checks to retirees. CalPERS is gettin’ there.
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Gov. Brown, CalPERS face off in 2015
A piece of this year’s politics moving into 2015 is Gov. Jerry Brown’s tiff with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. In particular, Brown remains steamed over CalPERS’ use of temporary pay to pad pensions. In a letter to CalPERS, he said
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Oil taxes fuel state budget
The group Californians Against Fracking seeks to eliminate oil and gas drilling by hydraulic fracturing methods, called “fracking,” statewide in California. A post-election article by David Atkins in the Washington Monthly, and cross-posted on the CAF website, lamented the defeat of Measure P
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VIDEO: Steve Forbes can fix California, but Sacramento won’t listen
Gov. Jerry Brown once supported a flat tax and Steve Forbes tells CalWatchdog.com’s Brian Calle that would be 真人麻将游戏平台 the first step toward unleashing the economic power of the Golden State.
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BMW runs over Tesla
Remember how Tesla boasted it was hooking up with German auto giant BMW? Turns out it’s not happening. Digital Trends reported: Well, it turns out the story was a bit of a wash, because BMW officials recently told German magazine
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Covered CA struggles through second enrollment
Covered California’s huge enrollment numbers boosted the national health care program, the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, during its first year. But the Covered CA health care exchange, the center of the system, has been sneezing through its crucial second open-enrollment period, which
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