Investigation-Inside GovernmentEx-felons as care providersTuesday, June 15th, 2010 JUNE 15, 2010 By TROY ANDERSON Not long after the Sacramento County Grand Jury described In-Home Supportive Services as an “employment program for ex-felons,” prosecutors learned a number of IHSS providers taking care of aged, blind and disabled people were parolees – including doz... Cities create own traffic fiefdomsTuesday, April 6th, 2010 APRIL 6, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO According to aides to Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, a Long Beach police officer recently gave a Torrance resident a choice: get a speeding ticket for violating the state’s Vehicle Code, which will go on the driver’s record and likely result 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... 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... Official state records are disappearingWednesday, January 13th, 2010 Jan. 13, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO If there’s one thing our state government does exceptionally well, it’s the production of records. Every month, dozens of state agencies and departments -- to say nothing of the Legislature itself -- churns out thousands of pages of reports, studies, an... |