Investigation-February, 2010Pensions push state to insolvencyTuesday, February 23rd, 2010 FEB. 23, 2010 By TROY ANDERSON As the $17 billion annual taxpayer tab for government employees’ pensions and retiree health care increases at a rate of “several billion dollars” a year, Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach says California is heading for an “economic meltdow... Will Prop. 14 kill third parties?Friday, February 19th, 2010 Feb. 19, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Californians keep tinkering with the state’s elections system. That’s understandable given the low esteem in which Golden State politicians are held. A January 2010 Field Poll found just 16 percent of voters approved of how the state Legislature is doing i... New speaker’s FPPC troublesTuesday, February 16th, 2010 Feb. 16, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO One of John A. Perez’s first acts as a state assemblyman was to introduce AB 9, which partially amended the Political Reform Act of 1974. In fact, the official bill history says Perez introduced it on Dec. 1, 2008, one day before the Los Angeles Democra... State pushes costly new water standardWednesday, February 10th, 2010 Feb. 10, 2010 By JT LONG California water agencies face a groundbreaking proposal to eradicate -- at what could be a high cost to ratepayers -- all but trace levels of hexavalent chromium, the industrial byproduct made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich a decade ago. The California Off... Nadia, Arnold & Bill – a love storyThursday, February 4th, 2010 Feb. 3, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Jan. 19 appointment of Nadia Davis-Lockyer to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors is both perfectly understandable and completely incomprehensible. As a result, it’s unusually illuminating of the governor... |