Inside Government

Lies about green jobs: Now it’s the Los Angeles edition

March 1, 2013 By Chris Reed We’ve seen President Obama and Gov. Brown spread the green jobs myth, pretending that niche categories of employment can revive the larger national and state economies. Now Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti is

Assembly Dems play politics with sequestration bill

CalWatchdog Staff March 1, 2013

March 1, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — Yesterday in the California Assembly the Democratic majority played fast and loose with a bipartisan bill aimed at urging President Barack Obama and Congress to avert the federal sequestration cuts. SJR 3, by

New life breathed into Sacramento vanity project

CalWatchdog Staff March 1, 2013

March 1, 2013 By Katy Grimes The NBA cheerleaders at the Sacramento Bee are giddy with excitement today. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson announced during his State of the City address Thursday that the Sacramento Kings are here to stay, and

San Diego mayor embraces voter nullification

CalWatchdog Staff March 1, 2013

March 1, 2013 By Chris Reed In 2006, San Diego voters gave a landslide win to a ballot measure that would force groups of city workers to compete against private firms for the right to provide city services in a

Gasp! Oscar host offends lawmakers

CalWatchdog Staff February 27, 2013

Feb. 27, 2013 By Katy Grimes Alert the media! The Assembly Women’s Caucus is offended. Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, and a successful entertainer, actor, and writer, hosted Sunday’s Oscar awards show, with his usual snarky, brazen, naughty

Prediction: CTA, CFT will kill Brown push to help English learners

CalWatchdog Staff February 27, 2013

Feb. 27, 2013 By Chris Reed On the Fox & Hounds website, veteran Sacramento watcher John Wildermuth has a sharp piece about how Gov. Jerry Brown’s push to give more money to school districts with students with higher numbers of

L.A. Times finally admits L.A. facing broad decline

CalWatchdog Staff February 25, 2013

Feb. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed As someone who’s lived in Southern California since 1990, it’s been pretty obvious to me that Los Angeles and Los Angeles County have been in a broad decline that began when the end of

‘Preschool for all’: Obama adopts Meathead goal, spin

CalWatchdog Staff February 24, 2013

Feb. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed Lance Izumi does a great job in the Orange County Register of documenting how President Obama’s push for universal preschool is a retread of actor-director Rob Reiner’s failed, scandal-scarred push in California — right

New San Diego Mayor Bob Filner displays anger management problem

CalWatchdog Staff February 22, 2013

Feb. 22, 2013 By Chris Reed What happens when a veteran congressman with a history of anger management issues and an apparent disinterest in understanding how city government works becomes mayor of California’s second-largest city? San Diegans are finding out

Republican lawmaker touts bill pushed by labor bullies

CalWatchdog Staff February 21, 2013

Feb. 21, 2013 By Chris Reed You don’t have to be a union hater to be amazed at all the different ways labor decides to make its Sacramento puppets jump through hoops. The latest example is legislation that would require