CA Leaders Falsely Blame Voters For Budget Crisis
October 03, 2009 | 12:59 PM | 0 Comments
In this column in the Wall Street Journal, my colleagues and I explain why voter initiatives are NOT the source of California's budget problems.
With the Golden State still struggling to balance...
read more »Sometimes Figures Lie. Well, In Sacramento Maybe They Alaways Do.
August 31, 2009 | 02:08 PM | 4 Comments
Bill Leonard, on the CA Board of Equalization, sends out an informative weekly newsletter. His latest includes these comments on the state's budget figures.
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read more »A 3rd Way on Healtchare Reform
August 20, 2009 | 02:08 PM | 0 Comments
If you have not seen the column in the Wall Street Journal by John Mackey (CEO of Whole Foods) on healthcare reform, you are missing the boat. It is a must read.
When he says Obamacare won't...
read more »A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down?
August 18, 2009 | 08:27 PM | 0 Comments
So, California Forward has released with fanfare its 1.5 page list of reform ideas. What a disappointment. Oh, sure they have some good ideas in there, one's long pushed by various organization...
read more »What do you get when you cross Ronald Reagan and Woody Harrelson?
August 18, 2009 | 08:12 PM | 1 Comment
(video interview)
California State Rep Chuck DeVore on government spending sprees, tea parties, industrial hemp, and running for Barbara Boxer's Senate seat.
Recently, Reason.tv's Ted Balaker sat...
read more »California's Debt is Probably at Least $200 Billion More Than You Think
July 16, 2009 | 02:25 PM | 2 Comments
David Crane, writing in the Huffington Post, has written a column most readers of this blog probably would not ordinarily see. But they should. He has succinctly explained the extent of California's...
read more »California--12% of the US Population, 32% of the US Welfare Recipients
July 16, 2009 | 11:47 AM | 0 Comments
Yep, that's right. Check out the details here.
read more »CalPERS Gets it Right (!), and Wrong
July 16, 2009 | 11:06 AM | 2 Comments
The LA Times reports that:
California's giant public pension fund is suing the nation's three top bond credit-rating companies for issuing "wildly inaccurate" rankings on investments that...
read more »GAO Points Out Shortcomings of High Speed Rail Plans
June 26, 2009 | 12:44 AM | 0 Comments
The U.S. agency in charge of $8 billion in stimulus money for high-speed rail projects doesn't have an adequate plan to oversee the projects, and the system of super-fast trains ultimately will cost...
read more »California's Budget Crisis and State Worker Pensions
June 26, 2009 | 12:07 AM | 0 Comments
There are many contributing factors to California's budget crisis. One is state pensions. As I wrote in my last post:
In 2000 and 2002 changes in California state law allowed state,...
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