Regulations

Nurse union exploits Ebola crisis in negotiations

Seizing on the growing concern about the deadly West African virus, the California Nurses Association, one of the state’s most powerful unions, has added several Ebola-related provisions to its list of demands in its ongoing dispute with Kaiser Permanente. The two

Counties vie for ‘disadvantaged’ cap-and-trade bucks

Dave Roberts October 16, 2014

In the fictional town of Lake Woebegon, all of the children are above average. But in the real world of California, all of the counties are disadvantaged. Or so it seemed at a recent California Air Resources Board meeting

LAUSD does not compute

John Seiler October 15, 2014

What’s it with governments and computers? The latest cyber-snafu strikes the LAUSD, reported the Times: “the Los Angeles Unified School District’s student information system, which has cost more than $130 million, has become a technological disaster. The system made its

Minimum wage truth and consequences: Who’s listening?

Joel Fox October 14, 2014

Let’s hope voters become more engaged than some elected officials in the minimum-wage debate. Voters will be subjected to counterarguments in the minimum-wage debate. Raising the minimum wage undoubtedly will make things better for some minimum-wage workers – more

Covered CA blames cronyism on Obamacare scramble

James Poulos October 13, 2014

In an embarrassing new black eye for Covered California, the state’s implementation of Obamacare, the health exchange, has admitted it violated accepted practice by awarding $184 million in so-called “no-bid” contracts, according to a new report by the Associated Press.

$Anti-fracking fervor builds in CA even as it lifts U.S. economy, stature$

Anti-fracking fervor builds in CA even as it lifts U.S. economy, stature

Chris Reed October 13, 2014

Anti-fracking sentiment in California continues to build, and we’re likely to see a spate of local moratoriums aimed at blocking the oil-drilling process in many cities and counties. This is happening even in places not normally associated with petroleum production,

AG doesn’t write slanted ballot language for plastic bag measure

Chris Reed October 12, 2014

The Attorney General’s Office of the state of California has a long, ugly history under Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown and Bill Lockyer of writing ballot language that pushes voters one way or the other — always to the benefit of

The impacts of raising San Francisco’s minimum wage to $15

Sally C. Pipes October 11, 2014

On Nov. 4 San Francisco voters are being asked to approve Proposition J, a measure which increases the minimum wage in San Francisco to $15 per hour by 2018 from the current city rate of $10.74. San Franciscans should think

Judge: CalPERS not protected in Stockton bankruptcy

James Poulos October 8, 2014

After a brief reprieve from a bad summer, the California Public Employees Retirement System has been handed another massive setback. In a provisional but uncompromising ruling, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein held bankrutpcy law does not permit CalPERS to protect its workers’