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Flag Day, OCGOP style
JUNE 17, 2010 By BRIAN CALLE An often forgotten holiday-of-sorts, Flag Day, is celebrated on June 14 and is the official day when Americans pay homage to the “Star-Spangled Banner.” One of the biggest celebrations of Old Glory in California
Read MoreDMV workers speak out
JUNE 17, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO For reasons that shouldn’t surprise anyone, employees of the California Department of Motor Vehicles have a lot to say. In May, when DMV officials began circulating a “Two Minute DMV Employee Survey,” 4,547 staffers
Read MoreSteinberg appeases educators
JUNE 17, 2010 By EVELYN STACEY On June 14, Senator Darrell Steinberg held a press conference at Edward Kemble Elementary, of Sacramento City Unified School District, to offer his support and solutions for schools in the midst of the budget
Read MoreRunning From California Government
Katy Grimes: More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward
Read MoreWimpy pension deal
Steven Greenhut: We got the heads up earlier that the governor had negotiated a blockbuster pension deal with four public employee unions, but now we see that this is no sort of deal. As the Bee reported, “Newly hired patrol
Read MoreCalPERS does the right thing?
Anthony Pignataro: So CalPERS just voted to spend a bit more General Fund money on our state’s Mount Everest-like public employee pension debt, which is estimated to run about half a trillion dollars. Almost immediately, David Crane, the Governor’s Special
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