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Back to homepageBankruptcy Series: Cities on a future spending spree
Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in a CalWatchDog.com Special Series of in-depth articles on municipal bankruptcy. Nov. 9, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Are the staggering forecasted public pension obligations facing state and local governments in California the result of overspending or
Read MoreDown the rabbit hole on cap and trade
Sept. 14, 2012 By Katy Grimes The clean, green fairy tale is really a nightmare in California, and all sense has gone down the rabbit hole. Nonsensical is the best word for what is occuring in California with cap and
Read MoreDing, dong, tax bill is dead!
Sept. 1, 2012 Katy Grimes: The California Senate killed Assembly Speaker John Pérez’s AB 1500, which would have taxed out-of-state businesses. Ding dong, one more tax measure is dead… for now. Perez worked like a mad man on Friday to
Read MoreLawmaker proposes corporate welfare for NFL club
July 26, 2012 By Joseph Perkins Elaine Alquist is not a member of the San Francisco 49ers’ Gold Rush gals, but the Santa Clara state senator is the NFL club’s biggest cheerleader. With but a month left in the legislative
Read MoreUnions or cities pushing more tax increases?
July 19, 2012 Katy Grimes: Not wanting to be left out of the latest trend, it appears that Sacramento’s City Council wants to file for bankruptcy as well. “An overwhelming majority of the council has expressed support for raising the
Read MoreHow many ways can voters say ‘no’ to tax hikes?
May 23, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California city which has been trying to force a new professional sports arena on its tapped-out taxpayers is now asking for a sales-tax increase. But even more egregious than the tax increase push
Read MoreMore liberal prattle: “We’re all one”
May 21, 2012 By Katy Grimes Too much liberal drivel in today’s newspapers passes for news as well as journalism. Gone is most of the hard news, replaced by front page human-interest stories and social welfare issues. This prattle is
Read MoreJohn Shirey: Master of Disaster
Steven Greenhut: As head of the California Redevelopment Association, John Shirey helped lead many local cities into a deep fiscal pit based on the redevelopment borrow-and-spend policies that promised great windfalls from these crony capitalist deals. Shirey was smart when
Read MoreSacto Airport Another Vanity Project
April, 2, 2012 By, Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO – I’ve long mocked the Sacramento “International” Airport for not having any direct international flights. We used to have one direct flight to Cabo San Lucas. C’mon -this is Sacramento. The former Sacramento
Read MoreBreton’s Embarrassing Suck Up
Steven Greenhut: No one would expect Sacramento Bee columnist Marcos Breton to take on a tough issue or defy conventional wisdom, but his March 21 bouquet to Mayor Kevin Johnson was uncomfortably embarrassing even by his standards. It’s rare to
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