SEPT. 28, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT The nation's two largest pension funds, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), have been plagued by problems and allegations of mismanagement and even corruption in the case ...

SEPT. 28, 2011 By ROY REYNOLDS Democracy means representative government. The opposite is SCAG -- the Southern California Association of Governments. In a May Fountain Valley Patch online column, I wrote, “It's complicated enough when our hierarchical government structure (city, cou...

SEPT. 28, 2011 By JOHN SEILER A new economic forecast  released today warns, "California is fast becoming a post-industrial hell for almost everyone except the gentry class, their best servants and the public sector." The forecast is from the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting at Ca...

SEPT. 27, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Despite a constitutional amendment that prohibits the government from granting educational or employment preferences to individuals based on race, the California Legislature recently passed a bill to require state colleges and universities to use race in admission...