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Special Series: California counties are more at risk of going belly up

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a CalWatchDog.com Special Series of 12 in-depth articles on municipal bankruptcy. April 11, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi There are many California cities likely to be facing future stress to their operating fund budgets

California counties are more at risk of going belly up

Wayne Lusvardi April 11, 2012

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a CalWatchDog.com Special Series of 12 in-depth articles on municipal bankruptcy. There are many California cities likely to be facing future stress to their operating fund budgets because of rising public pension obligations.

Will Calif. end double taxation of businesses?

CalWatchdog Staff April 10, 2012

April 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes For more than 100 years, California was known as a great manufacturing state. It could be again if a new bill passes. For decades, businesses clamored to come to the Golden State, and entrepreneurs

Cadiz creates water out of thin air

CalWatchdog Staff April 9, 2012

April 9, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Call it “thin water.” A small private company called Cadiz Inc. in Los Angeles is in the process of creating water in California’s Mojave Desert — like a magician, literally out of thin air. By

A political form of reefer madness

Steven Greenhut April 9, 2012

April 9, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — Some Oakland residents are furious that on the same day a gunman murdered seven people this week at the private Oikos University in the city, SWAT teams raided a different educational institution less

CA Energy Schemes: ‘We are getting fleeced’

CalWatchdog Staff April 5, 2012

April 5, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board has created a stealthy new corporation in Delaware. The Western Climate Initiative Inc., which will manage cap-and-trade programs, even has its own form of currency. WCI Inc. says it exists “to perform

Prop. 29 cig haters interrupt John Denver

CalWatchdog Staff April 4, 2012

April 4, 2012 By John Seiler Usually when I work, I listen to classical music. But sometimes I put on the rock I grew up with, usually the Stones, Hendrix, Cream, The Who, Dylan, the MC5, etc. A good way

Good Riddance to Peter Douglas

CalWatchdog Staff April 3, 2012

Commentary April 4, 2012 By John Seiler The person who did the most to wreck California the past 25 years wasn’t one of our terrible governors, but Peter M. Douglas. After 25 years assaulting basic property rights and the U.S.

CA ban on racial preferences upheld

CalWatchdog Staff April 3, 2012

April 3, 2012 Katy Grimes: Proposition 209, a constitutional amendment that prohibits the government from granting educational or employment preferences to individuals based on race, was surprisingly upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday. The 9th Circuit had already

New High-Speed Rail Plan Runs Over Prop. 1A Mandates

CalWatchdog Staff April 3, 2012

April 2, 2012 By Katy Grimes As California politicians show more desperation to build any part of the California High-Speed Rail system in order to get their hands on $3.5 billion in federal stimulus money, the plan is looking more