California Political News and Views

  Opinion: Union’s self-interest costs L.A. schools $40 million LA Daily News,  11/1/12 Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy should be commended for applying for a $40 million federal grant aimed at helping struggli...

  Anti-Coal Regulation on Fire Rule that would cost up to $10 billion to solve $6 million in health problems faces lawsuit By Bill McMorris, Washington Free Beacon,  11/2/12 Nearly half of state governments are suing the Environmental Protection ...

Fixing California’s Retiree Health Care Problem By Stephen D. Eide, Union Watch,  10/31/12 THE ROLE OF OPEB IN LOCAL FISCAL DISTRESS IN CALIFORNIA California state government has been in a sustained fiscal crisis for almost five years. In every year...

Airport Might Accept Bids for Private Firefighting Services Voiceofoc.org,  11/1/12 Orange County supervisors on Tuesday authorized the potential privatization of aircraft rescue firefighting services at John Wayne Airport, which now are provided by t...

  Calif. commute times rank 10th longest in US Joanna Lin, California Watch,  11/1/12 Californians rank 10th in the country for having the longest commute times, taking an average of 26.9 minutes to travel to work, recently released census data s...

Prop. 30 would make budget roller coaster more scary By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog,   11/2/12 You probably have seen the photograph of the Casino Pier Roller Coaster on the New Jersey shore inundated by the ocean and in shambles from the impact of H...

Herb’s $400 Million in New Taxes v. Dick’s Pension Reform Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA    11/2/12 LA WATCHDOG – City Council President Herb Wesson must not have read Governor Brown’s memo to cool it on new taxes because these additio...

STEVE FRANK MEDIA FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 29 11/2/12 This has been as busy a week for the media as I have had for a while. Monday  10/29   Sussman/Morgan Morgan Show, KSFO San Francisco Mark Carbonaro Show  1460 KION  Salinas/Monterey Tuesday  10/30Â...

Pension Reform: Villaraigosa v. Riordan Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA,  10/29/12 LA WATCHDOG – The Riordan Plan for pension reform will be the defining issue in the City’s upcoming elections in March and May. That is why we must demand a si...

Opponents of Voting Rights Act Provision Impacting Counties Want Supreme Court Action California County News,  10/31/12 Several lawsuits have been filed to challenge the validity of a provision of the Voting Rights Act that is intended to protect mino...