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LAT, Sac Bee fracking coverage: Same old glaring omission

Here we go again. On Friday, the state government released its draft fracking regulations. And while in their coverage, the Sacramento Bee and the Los Angeles Times cited environmentalists’ dire warnings about fracking, the papers once again made a gigantic

30,000-plus cancelled CA Kaiser plans hardly ‘cut-rate’

Chris Reed November 13, 2013

While the president has indirectly admitted that “if you like your health plan, you can keep it” isn’t true, his administration keeps up the deceit when it comes to other aspects of the Affordable Care Act. White House spokesman Jay

Book describes CA problems, how to fix them: Part 1

John Seiler November 12, 2013

This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 is here. If you listen to Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies, “California is back” from the deficits and dysfunction of a few years ago. Not so fast. A new

How would BART’s dishonesty, profligacy play in private sector?

Chris Reed November 11, 2013

Two classic California outrages are captured perfectly in Dan Borenstein’s appalling Conra Costa Times commentary over the weekend about how Bay Area Rapid Transit officials grossly misled the media on terms of their recent strike-ending labor deal. The first is

Miracle: Sacramento MSM laments California’s mass poverty

Chris Reed November 10, 2013

For months, Cal Watchdog, U-T San Diego columnist Steven Greenhut and the U-T editorial page have drawn attention to the fact that under a new measure of poverty introduced by the Census Bureau in November 2012, California has the worst

If CA is poster child for Obamacare rollout, watch out

Chris Reed November 5, 2013

Thanks to incessantly upbeat and frequently dishonest press releases from Covered California, the Golden State is often depicted as the poster child for the rollout of Obamacare. Don’t tell that to Edie Littlefield Sundby, a San Diego woman with a

Good news, bad news for chameleon San Diego politician Nathan Fletcher

Chris Reed November 4, 2013

A new poll released Sunday has both good news and bad news for San Diego mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher, the 21st-century Sammy Glick who went from union-scorning Republican to above-it-all noble independent to union-embracing Democrat from March 2012 to May 2013.

Awful failure of CA inspectors points to public-private competence gap

Chris Reed November 3, 2013

A nightmarish story out of the Bay Area offers fresh evidence of the enormous gap in competence between the private and public sectors. This is from the San Francisco Chronicle: “The owner of the Castro Valley care home where residents

UC president’s first speech shows doubts about her were warranted

Chris Reed November 2, 2013

In July, when the University of California Board of Regents announced the selection of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as the new UC system president, regents could not have been more pleased with themselves. They wanted a high-profile president and

Nathan Fletcher channels Nixon press secretary in disowning his own bogus claim

Chris Reed November 1, 2013

If you’re a candidate whose authenticity is open to question because of extreme, always self-serving shifts in your views, you really, really, really don’t want to be caught in an, er, obvious fib. So one would think that union-bashing Republican