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This article first appeared in City Journal. DEC. 2, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT San Francisco’s public-sector unions have been gloating following last month’s defeat of Proposition B, which would have required city employees to boost contributions to their generous pension
Read MoreGroup Touts New Pension Initiative
DEC. 1, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT A pension reform organization has released a draft initiative plan for the 2012 ballot that would require public employees to pay half their retirement benefit costs, mandate defined contribution plans for new employees, significantly
Read MoreRetrospective: Pork OD Kills Water Project
DEC. 1, 2010 By RICHARD TRAINOR When former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown said that a “political earthquake” is rumbling in the Central Valley over water he was right on the money, and it seems that
Read MoreVows To Renew Ageless Marriage Battle
NOV. 30, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Now that California voters on Nov. 2 put a full slate of Democrats into every statewide office on the ballot, Democrats are being encouraged by the media and opinion polls to put Prop. 8
Read More'California-care' Funding Problem
By KATY GRIMES NOV. 30, 2010 As California prepares for national health care legislation, the looming and potentially massive increase in Medi-Cal spending has already begun, and will most likely continue to outpace any growth in the state’s revenues. Officially
Read MoreDeceptive Agency To Punish Deception
NOV. 29, 2010 By LAER PEARCE On Wednesday a California state agency with a well-earned reputation for deception will hold a public workshop that may well set a new standard for governmental hypocrisy in California – and that’s really saying
Read MoreCA Freebies Enrich Low-Wage Workers
NOV. 29, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Contrary to half-truths by both liberals who believe the minimum wage is a poverty wage or conservatives who believe it creates more unemployment and sends jobs overseas, at least in California minimum wage is
Read MoreState Court's Clarity On Free Speech
This article was first published in the Freeman. NOV. 28, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT When kids get into complex arguments about who did what to whom, parents can usually sort through the miasma by focusing on a few key points.
Read MoreCIRM's Politics of Personal Enrichment
NOV. 28, 2010 Newspaper report exposes exorbitant salaries at state stem cell agency but understates waste and scientific failure By K. LLOYD BILLINGSLEY The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the $3 billion state stem cell agency created by Proposition 71
Read MoreGreen Bust Coming To Brown CA?
NOV. 24, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A developer of transmission lines for green energy is quoted in a November 17 article in the New York Times: “When wind guys talk to each other they say, ‘Damn, what are we going
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