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$4.4 billion headache solved. How? Chronicle has no explanation
Members of the media's aversion to math — especially to explaining how numbers work when explaining spending decisions in public policy — is hard to miss. For years, few stories by California journalists on pensions and retirement benefits really dug
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LAT’s Steve Lopez finally figures out life in California
For years, I’ve written about the muddled thinking of liberal California pundits when it comes to government spending. I find it amazing how little comprehension there is that every dollar that is spent for unnecessary public employee compensation and every
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Pension criticism=racism. Aaauugghh! Aaauugghh! Aaauugghh!
Samuel Johnson’s 1775 observation that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” has particular resonance nowadays, with civil libertarians who question our government’s massive spying on 300 million-plus Americans being derided as tools of U.S. enemies. But when it
Read MoreDetroit sets precedent for radical cuts in ‘inviolate’ CA pensions
June 17, 2013 By Chris Reed In the sci-fi satire “Robocop,” we were treated to a glimpse of a future Detroit in which mechanized police ran amok. As my colleague John Seiler noted the other day, in modern-day Detroit, we’re
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