California

      Why Is the Right Bothering to Campaign Against Tax Initiatives? By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles,  7/26/12 Who needs

    Jobs Program Spent $76,000 Per Person To Help Youth Find Minimum Wage Jobs by Wynton Hall, Big Government,7/25/12

These findings are contained in a new report, "The Pension Factor 2012: Assessing the Role of Defined Benefit Plans in Reducing Elder Economic Hardships," an update of a similar study conducted in 2009. The report was authored by Dr. Frank Porell, Professor of Gerontology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Diane Oakley, Executive Director...

SACRAMENTO, July 25, 2012 — As the need for new school construction slows over the next decade, California should refocus on updating and replacing aging school buildings with schools designed to be more environmentally friendly and better suited to ...

Several months ago I wrote here that an attempt by State Senator Doug to put a measure on the ballot to force another vote on the California High Speed Rail project was nothing more than political grandstanding by the cowboy hat wearing Republican, who was in a hot race for Congress. To almost no...

By Melissa Flores As Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System’s board of directors looks for a financial partner to pull it out of a bind that threatens future service in the community, a state politician is taking aim at one of the policies that...

    More guns, less crime By Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog,  7/23/12 The mainstream news reports about the Aurora, Colorado theater

    CALIFORNIA, the DUMBEST State in the Union? By: Rc Clayborn, Examiner,  7/15/12 How did California become the dumbest

    CSU leans on British-owned company to offer online courses Central Valley Business Times,  7/24/12 •  Hires Pearson to

    Don’t Buy NEA Snake Oil By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 7/24/12 The teachers union uses bogus numbers to