Investigative Reports

CalPERS’ Ailing Long-Term Care Plan
Editor's note: A new article on this controversy, published Feb. 20, 2013, is here. It concerns the recent 85 percent rate hike. SEPT. 16, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO For a long-term care benefit plan, the news has mostly been bad. Last year saw a huge budget deficit of more than $800 mil...
Ruling Slows Anti-Walmart Forces
SEPT. 13, 2010 By DAVE ROBERTS There are few companies more successful – and more loathed by liberals – than Walmart. The company employs more than 2 million people in 8,500 stores in 15 countries, raking in $405 billion in sales in the last year. It ranked first among retailers in For...
Meet Blakeslee, The New Swing Vote
SEPT. 9 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Anyone watching the Cal Channel’s broadcast of the Aug. 31 Senate budget hearings saw an interesting side to newly elected Republican Sen. Sam Blakeslee. In fact, they literally saw all sides. “Here we are, fiddling while Rome burns, ignoring the re...
Arnold’s seven wasted years
SEPT. 7, 2010 By JOHN SEILER With Labor Day marking the traditional beginning of the campaign season, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's seven years as governor of California essentially are behind us. He will still have influence on the fiscal 2010-10 state budget, now almost three months behin...
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