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Prop. 39 tax-hike $ also may indirectly boost teacher pay

March 7, 2013 By Chris Reed It’s not just money from Proposition 30’s sales-tax and income-tax hikes that is being used to provide for teacher pay raises and to allow continuation of “step” pay policies that give teachers raises most

Train agency ‘raids’ CalPERS for exec talent: Oy vey!

CalWatchdog Staff March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013 By Chris Reed When the press release came out Monday that the California High-Speed Rail Authority had recruited a top executive away from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, a Tweet from former Los Angeles Times journo

In Spain, bullet train a symbol of government insanity

CalWatchdog Staff March 3, 2013

March 3, 2013 By Chris Reed The Feb. 25 New Yorker magazine had a strikingly downbeat account of the economic hellhole that is Spain. Unemployment is 25 percent — and double that for young adults. One-quarter of the budget is

Lies about green jobs: Now it’s the Los Angeles edition

CalWatchdog Staff March 1, 2013

March 1, 2013 By Chris Reed We’ve seen President Obama and Gov. Brown spread the green jobs myth, pretending that niche categories of employment can revive the larger national and state economies. Now Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti is

San Diego mayor embraces voter nullification

CalWatchdog Staff March 1, 2013

March 1, 2013 By Chris Reed In 2006, San Diego voters gave a landslide win to a ballot measure that would force groups of city workers to compete against private firms for the right to provide city services in a

Prediction: CTA, CFT will kill Brown push to help English learners

CalWatchdog Staff February 27, 2013

Feb. 27, 2013 By Chris Reed On the Fox & Hounds website, veteran Sacramento watcher John Wildermuth has a sharp piece about how Gov. Jerry Brown’s push to give more money to school districts with students with higher numbers of

Probe shows CA Dems’ talk of ‘social justice’ a smokescreen

CalWatchdog Staff February 26, 2013

Feb. 26, 2013 By Chris Reed There has rarely been a journalistic scoop that did a better job of exposing the fraud that is the claim that state Democrats are the party of social justice than the report last week

‘Preschool for all’: Obama adopts Meathead goal, spin

CalWatchdog Staff February 24, 2013

Feb. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed Lance Izumi does a great job in the Orange County Register of documenting how President Obama’s push for universal preschool is a retread of actor-director Rob Reiner’s failed, scandal-scarred push in California — right

Will nanotech, biotech bonanza rescue state from its politicians?

CalWatchdog Staff February 23, 2013

Feb. 23, 2013 By Chris Reed The Golden State may yet be rescued from its epic mismanagement by private-sector innovation that brings vast new wealth to California. For all our Solyndra-style boondoggles, there’s also extraordinarily promising work being done that

New San Diego Mayor Bob Filner displays anger management problem

CalWatchdog Staff February 22, 2013

Feb. 22, 2013 By Chris Reed What happens when a veteran congressman with a history of anger management issues and an apparent disinterest in understanding how city government works becomes mayor of California’s second-largest city? San Diegans are finding out