Investigation
Back to homepageA High-speed math problem
JUNE 24, 2010 By JT LONG A month after a report by the California State Auditor warned of possible delays to a planned $42 billion California High Speed Rail project due to inadequate oversight, a veteran private sector CEO brought
Read MoreAnother economic dip coming?
JUNE 21, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Here’s something Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown should be debating. As the California budget is haggled over by the governor, Legislature and the powerful government unions, one thing everyone assumes is that the California
Read MoreEx-felons as care providers
JUNE 15, 2010 By TROY ANDERSON Not long after the Sacramento County Grand Jury described In-Home Supportive Services as an “employment program for ex-felons,” prosecutors learned a number of IHSS providers taking care of aged, blind and disabled people were
Read MoreRail plan will crush land owners
JUNE 10, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Jim Erickson is in a tough spot. If the proposed California High Speed Rail Route A-1 goes through Madera County, it will bisect his ranch. But if Route A-2 gets built, it will slice
Read MoreDuvall nearly out of money
JUNE 4, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Former Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall of Yorba Linda, who left office suddenly in September 2009 following revelations that he talked freely of alleged sexual conquests in a legislative hearing chamber, has given away just
Read MoreElection pre-mortem
JUNE3, 2010 By JOHN SEILER What a mess departing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is leaving for his successor. Endemic deficits. A bond rating the lowest of any state, inching toward junk-bond status. School performance vying with Louisiana for America’s worst. The
Read MoreGreen-job future a fraud
JUNE 1, 2010 By JOHN SEILER California’s unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, at 12.6 percent. That’s 2.7 percentage points above the national average. The persistence of unemployment also is something Californians haven’t seen since the Great Depression. The May 30
Read MoreCA budget tops sensible limits
MAY 27, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Budget time. So I thought I would revisit an analytical tool I devised a few years ago to help better understand the California state budget. Back in the early 2000s, I was pouring over
Read MoreCal Jobs Gap widens in 2010
MAY 24, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Instead of bashing one another for past liberal postures, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner should be talking about the California Jobs Gap. Jerry Brown should be, too. There’s no more important issue today, especially
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Tea Party time in California?
MAY 20, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Normally a trendsetter, California might be a laggard in following the political revolutions back east. On Tuesday, the Establishment of both parties took a beating from voters upset at the most dysfunctional government most
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