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Here’s a notice for a public pension hearing by the Little Hoover Commission: On Thursday, April 22, 2010, the Little Hoover Commission will conduct a public hearing on California public pension systems. The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. in
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Meg's bad exemplars
It’s bad enough that Meg Whitman’s campaign chairperson is Pete Wilson, whose governorship almost destroyed the state with wild tax increases. Now, her campaign is looking at two hideous politicians from elsewhere as models for her campaign: Current NY City
Read MoreCalPERS: Police live longest!
CalPERS had previously revealed data showing that police and fire officials have same life expectancy as miscellaneous government workers — data that debunks the old public safety canard that police and fire deserve large pensions because they die shortly after
Read MoreAnswering A Lie Within 24 Hours
Former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown famously once said, “in politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.” In The Sacramento Bee this past Sunday April 11, 2010, former Assembly Speaker and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown had an
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CA's Chamber of Gutlessness
I was pleasantly surprised to see the California Chamber of Commerce launch a hard-hitting TV ad targeting Jerry Brown. The Left always depicts California’s business community as a counterbalance to the power of the state’s well-funded and surly public employee
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Taxes, Whitman and Skelton
As I’ve noted over the years many times, L.A. Times California columnist George Skelton is the man who never saw a tax he didn’t like — or a tax cut he didn’t hate. He’s at it again today, attacking Meg
Read MoreAppeal all traffic tickets
Ever in search of new ways to rip off off citizens, California government now is hitting traffic violators with massive fines: Fines on traffic tickets have surged in the past five years as the state has added fees and penalties
Read MoreJerry Brown on Bill Clinton
“If Clinton didn’t exist, the Trilateral Commission would have to invent him because he has deprived and drained the radical energy out of environmental movements, out of the African American civil rights community, by just being there and being not
Read MoreE-Waste bill passes out of committee
Senator Jenny Oropeza’s SB1052, which rationalize state agencies’ approach to electronic waste, passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee this afternoon, according to a press release sent out by Oropeza’s office. “I am alarmed the California State Auditor has
Read MoreMore dirty cops
It’s getting heard to keep up with all the dirty cop stories in the papers. Here’s the latest from today’s Orange County Register: “An off-duty Westminster police officer and an off-duty state corrections officer were arrested Saturday night in connection
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