Investigation
Back to homepageBrown's Job Got Twice as Hard
NOV. 12, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Less than a month ago, on Oct. 18, Moody’s Investor Service issued a report calculating California’s situation as “at least $12 billion in future budget gaps.” Now, the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office released a
Read MoreState's Prisons Exploding
NOV. 5, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO It was apparently a matter of “disrespect.” It happened at Calipatria State Prison, located on the edge of the Salton Sea near the Mexican border. Around 2 p.m. on June 12, two inmates met
Read MoreExpect More Population Flight
NOV. 2, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Given the predictably one-sided recent election results in California, a new trend may be soon emerging called “red flight” to describe the rapid mass out-migration of residents from cities and counties that are insolvent
Read MoreIf GOP Fails, 3rd Party Will Rise
OCT. 28, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, has taken a long, strange journey to veteran status in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he could soon be heading the House Committee on Science and Technology. He’s
Read More'Emergency' Relieves Bureaucracy
OCT. 26, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Last Thursday a mentally ill young man walked into a mall in Placer County, and started a fire in a game store. He also told the store’s manager that he had a bomb in
Read MoreBrown Ignored Union Bill's Warnings
OCT. 19, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO One of the few actual, honest issues in the California governor’s race has also been one of the least reported. And while it’s an old issue – dating back to 1977 – it’s nonetheless
Read MoreTreasure Island’s Toxic Problem
San Francisco’s hottest property may be Treasure Island, where plans for glitzy development are threatened by the Navy’s legacy of radioactive waste OCT. 12, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO SAN FRANCISCO — The jet fighters raced across the sky maybe 500
Read MoreFeds Launch Delta Land Grab
OCT. 7, 2010 By KATY GRIMES The California Legislature has already passed groundbreaking legislation addressing the fragile Delta region, but some California Delta and water experts believe there is a plan to develop a conservancy in the region, as well
Read MoreState Prolongs Victims' Nightmare
OCT. 1, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO The state of California is apparently so dysfunctional that it can’t even kill a convicted rapist and murderer. After 28 years on San Quentin State Prison’s death row, Albert Greenwood Brown was supposed to
Read MoreSan Fran Is Pension Ground Zero
SEPT. 28, 2010 By DAVE ROBERTS SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s 26,000 city government employees have had it pretty good for many years – so good that city officials have had to cut services and could be looking at eventual
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