August, 2010Waters’ ‘unseemly’ slate-mail gameThursday, August 26th, 2010 AUGUST 26, 2010 By BRADLEY BENBROOK Progressive Connections: Rep. Maxine Waters’ Voter Guide Operation Connects California Politicians To Her Daughter’s Bank Account U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, will soon stand trial before the Office of Congressional Ethics over cha... Trouble at Developmental ServicesWednesday, August 25th, 2010 AUGUST 25, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO This should sound familiar to many people. “(T)here is not really any communication between staff and upper management,” one employee said. “A lot of us are angry and hurt about the way the management seems to be unscathed by the budget, and yet t... Tax hikes would harm CA economyTuesday, August 17th, 2010 AUGUST 17, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Do tax hikes fix budgets? That was the subject of an article I wrote last month here on CalWatchDog.com. The question is critical as the California Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, still unable to pass and sign a budget a month and a half into t... Will California repudiate its debt?Thursday, August 12th, 2010 AUGUST 12, 2010 By JOHN SEILER California's government soon could be paying its bills with IOUs, Controller John Chang announced this week. And a new report found that Californians' personal income dropped 2.5 percent in 2009, the first decline since World War II. Meanwhile, the state ... No accounting for rail’s mystery workersTuesday, August 10th, 2010 AUG. 10, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO The proposed California High-Speed Rail project is a monumental undertaking in terms of money, personnel, time and effort. The state’s own estimates say the whole system – which includes 800 miles of bullet train rails running up and down California -... South L.A.’s Charter SuccessSaturday, August 7th, 2010 AUG. 7, 2010 By JOHN SEILER The goal is bold: To graduate 2,000 students from inner-city high schools in South Los Angeles -- then have them all graduate from college. The method: put 40 charter schools within the 45 square miles of Los Angeles bounded by the 10, 105, 110 and 405 freeways.... |