Investigative Reports
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FEB. 11, 2011
By TROY ANDERSON
The prevailing wisdom holds that existing public pensions – once converted into Cadillac plans – can’t be turned back into Oldsmobiles.
For decades, union officials have repeated the mantra that government agencies can’t modify or reduce pension...
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By JOHN SEILER
Writing recently in the Sacramento Bee, two professors mangled the actual meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Alan Gibson of Cal State Chico and James Read of the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in Minnesota charged that while the newly elected Republicans in Co...
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JAN. 31, 2011
By WAYNE LUSVARDI
We live in a virtual age of images that sometimes doesn’t reflect reality. Redevelopment agencies across the state are blitzing newspapers with online images of a group of elderly persons in a senior citizen housing project watching TV that purportedly wou...
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JAN. 27, 2011
By JOHN SEILER
The U.S. House of Representatives, now controlled by Republicans, voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly called Obamacare. The U.S Senate, still controlled by Democrats, will not follow suit. And President Obama would vet...
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