Inside Government

Govt. shut down: Political football with military families

I received an email message yesterday from a military wife who shared a message she received about military pay being delayed during the government shut down. If that actually happens, it could be one of the ugliest, most devious messages

Shutdown blacks out U.S. Census site

John Seiler October 7, 2013

It's taken a week, but I finally was affected by the federal government “shutdown” (which actually only closes, temporarily, 17 percent of the government; leaving 83 percent still operating). computer softwares I went to the U.S. Census's Web site, census.gov,

Judge rules against government retirees, for common sense

Chris Reed October 6, 2013

A common argument in California from public employees and government retirees is that once they get a goodie, they always have to get a goodie — even if it's not guaranteed by law. Take the bizarre, antithetical-to-logic practice of giving

Why was 2003 recall so unique? Joe Mathews misses key point

Chris Reed October 5, 2013

Joe Mathews has written an interesting column about the 10th anniversary of the recall of Gov. Gray Davis. assignment online “Critics of the recall said it was a crazy idea, a partisan Republican power grab, a perversion of America’s tradition

Moneymaking San Diego air show victim of budget theater

Chris Reed October 4, 2013

First we had sequester theater, in which the Obama administration chose to make mandatory minor cuts in the federal budget in a way that inflicted pain on the public in the belief this would help give the White House the

CA's lie about public interest in Obamacare just the preview

Katy Grimes October 3, 2013

California health exchange officials grossly overstated the number of online hits it received Tuesday during the rollout of Obamacare. I'm shocked. According to the Los Angeles Times, “state officials said the Covered California website got 645,000 hits during the first day