OCT. 12, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California Attorney General Kamela Harris is playing with political fire. Last week she backed out of nationwide discussions with banks for a financial settlement to resolve alleged abuses of mortgage loans and foreclosures. The banks were Bank of America, J.P...

Editor's Note: This story is the second in a three-part series on San Diego’s battle for pension reform. The first is here. OCT. 12, 2011 By JOHN HRABE The Vons store in the retirement community of Rancho Bernardo isn’t the first place you’d expect to be a hotbed of criminal activity....

OCT. 11, 2011 By KATY GRIMES A special legislative hearing last week exposed the dramatic impact that proposed storm water permitting requirements would have on the state’s businesses, local governments and even public schools. But even more enlightening was the revelation that the pr...

OCT. 11, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The municipal funding crisis is accelerating in California. Fresno -- "The Best Little City in the USA" -- may be California’s fifth largest city with a population of 510,000. And it may be the Raisin Capital of the United States. But as of October 2, its c...