Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Borenstein’Steve Maviglio, pension sage: Why it’s a laughable spectacleTuesday, April 2nd, 2013 April 2, 2013 By Chris Reed Steve Maviglio, a leading consigliere to top Sacramento Democrats for more than a decade, now regularly pretends to a new role. Even though he's on Speaker John Perez's payroll, Maviglio offers himself up on Twitter in the quasi-journalistic role of reasoned, reas... They just don’t get it…Wednesday, May 16th, 2012May 16, 2012 By John Seiler "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," said T.S. Eliot. Nowdays, of course, American university professors brand him a "sexist" because he didn't say "peoplekind." "Human" implies "man," which excludes "woman," and so is sexist. But he sure was right about Ca... Pension deniers attempt to shame reform advocatesTuesday, May 15th, 2012May 16, 2012 By Brian Calle If you have not read or heard anything about California's unfunded public employee pension crisis, you've probably been living under a rock or, like union bosses and too many members of the state Legislature, the governor's office and local elected officials, you ar... Govt. Pension Crisis Gets WorseTuesday, May 31st, 2011 John Seiler: An excellent article in today's Contra Costa Times by columnist Daniel Borenstein reports that the state's government pension crisis is even worse than we thought: IF THERE'S any hope of resolving the California public-employee pension dilemma, it must start with honest discussion o... |