California

  CalSTRS ups stake in Austin office buildings Sacramento Business Journal by Mark Anderson, 9/20/12 The California State Teachers’ Retirement System and Thomas Properties Group Inc. upped their stake in a portfolio of eight Austin, Texas office...

  Santa Barbara District Inundated with School Records Requests from Immigrants Undocumented people are using the transcripts in applying for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk, 9/19/12 Local school distr...

  Our Cities Need Preventive Care Too: How Pre-Funding and Policy Changes Can Help CA Cities Manage Growing Retiree Benefit Costs    By Adam Tatum, California Common Sense,  8/2/12 Summary Together, California’s 20 largest cities (by budget) ...

  House panel to hold public ethics hearing Friday for Rep. Waters By Jordy Yager, The Hill, 09/20/12 The House Ethics Committee will hold a public hearing Friday on ethics allegations against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). The panel has been inve...

  California Court Thwarts Camera Company Vote Blocking Attempt Court of Appeal strikes down ATS attempt to prevent Murrieta, California residents from voting on red light cameras. The Newspaper.com,9/20/12   California’s second highest co...

  37 Is the new 65: A field day for trial lawyers By Laer Pearce, Calwatchdog, 9/19/12 The warm, caring hands of government are poised to protect us once again.  Just like how California started protecting us in 1986 from chemicals it knew, in it...

  Yes, we can break public-employee pensions By Mark Cabaniss, Calwatchdog,  9/20/12 The politicians in charge of “doing something” about the ongoing California pension debacle like to play a little game. It goes like this:  They decry the h...

  California May See More Bankruptcies, Chiang Says By Alison Vekshin, Bloomberg,  9/20/12 California may see more municipal bankruptcies than the three that have been filed since June, state Controller John Chiang said. Municipal budgets already...

  Grill a Burger, Go to Jail? by Steven Hayward, Powerline,  9/20/12 I recall clearly back in my graduate school days in southern California in the late 1980s/early 1990s when the South Coast Air Quality Management District—the smog police—wa...

  Santa Clara County’s former schools chief wants to unload underwater house onto taxpayers. By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News,  9/19/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE SAN JOSE — Retired county schools Superintend...