Steven Greenhut: Assemblyman Warren Furitani, D-Los Angeles, gave yet another rambling, ethnic-minded tribute today in his support for some incomprehensible resolution honoring Pacific Islanders. I learned from his talk that Pacific Islanders are not just football players and that many of them have ...
Blog-August, 2011Furitani: King Of Meaningless TributesMonday, August 29th, 2011Portantino Late Convert To Openness IssueMonday, August 29th, 2011AUGUST 29, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Canada-Flintridge, has been taking the lead role as the advocate for openness in the California Legislature, as he battles Assembly Speaker John Perez and fellow Democrats over the release of the spending records of indivi... Pol Pot Runs CA Government SchoolsMonday, August 29th, 2011John Seiler: Make sure you read Katy Grimes' new column on government schools, below. It's about the vast decline of California's government schools into egalitarian madness. Not much surprises me anymore, especially government actions. But I gasped when I read this part: "And the latest e... CA Schools Decline Even FurtherMonday, August 29th, 2011AUG. 29, 2011 Much of California's public schools are mommy, daddy and nanny to a growing number of socially inept children. But even with the new parents, far too many children are still ill-prepared for college, the workplace or adulthood. “My own research shows that there generally is a n... Pension DisparityMonday, August 29th, 2011 CA ‘Jobs Gap’ Jumps to Record HighMonday, August 29th, 2011 AUG. 29, 2011 By JOHN SEILER California's "Jobs Gap" with the rest of America jumped to a record high, according to new calculations. In 2010, I devised the "Jobs Gap" to measure how much worse unemployment is in California that the rest of America. The Jobs Gap is calculated by subtracting... Pensions Need Accurate Rate of ReturnSunday, August 28th, 2011AUG. 29, 2011 When the taxpayer is backing up the entire liability for the pensions received by members of the California Public Employees Retirement System, then CalPERS officials are exuberant about the stock market. They insist that a predicted rate of return of 7.75 percent is perfectly reali... Existing Pensions Also Will Be CutSaturday, August 27th, 2011AUG. 27, 2011 By JOHN SEILER It's obvious that pensions for future government workers are being cut, and will be cut further. But California state and local governments' unfunded liability for future pensions now is so large, $884 billion, that those already retired will see their pensions cu... ‘Redemption Happens Behind Bars’Friday, August 26th, 2011AUG. 26, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Should heinous juvenile criminals be offered a chance at redemption, just because they are juveniles? Members of the Assembly tried to answer that question through long debate on Thursday. But it failed to pass a bill offering California's juvenile criminals co... |