Why so few headlines today?
Your humble editor is heading to Sacramento in the wee hours of Tuesday morning to participate in a day-long conference which will assemble taxpayer organizations from up and down the state of...
View ArticleHow about a March for Math?
By Steven Greenhut | Tens of thousands of people marched in hundreds of cities last week as part of something billed as the March for Science. The event, which coincided with Earth Day, was meant to...
View ArticleForget fiscal responsibility: Jerry Brown embraces pension shell game
By Steven Greenhut | The Jerry Brown administration last week released its revised May budget and, lo and behold, it has finally decided to (kind of, sort of) tackle the state’s massive and growing...
View ArticleDavid Crane makes one last plea to legislators to stop Jerry Brown’s $6...
A letter sent today by David Crane: Dear Legislators, In my essay the other day I provided an alternative to Governor Brown’s pension loan — actually pay down pension debt. You could do that by...
View ArticleJerry Brown’s big skim
Potential profits could’ve been used for government services By David Crane | Governor Jerry Brown and the California Legislature have approved a scheme under which a special state fund filled with...
View ArticleCalifornia is still facing a pension crisis even with good stock market returns
Public employee unions try to use good years to deflect attention from a growing problem. By Steven Greenhut | California’s fiscal watchdogs are bracing for the forthcoming press statements from the...
View ArticleThe impact of transparency
By Robert Fellner | More great examples this week of the importance of transparency in government, all made possible as a result of California’s Public Records Act. The Press-Enterprise continued their...
View ArticleCalifornia pension reform – the San Jose model
By Ed Ring | Pension reform in San Jose began in June 2012 when voters, by a margin of 69% to 31%, approved Measure B. Despite overwhelming support from voters, however, this vote triggered a cascade...
View ArticleThere’s more to Sonoma County’s illegally granted pension increases
By Ken Churchill | There is a lot more to today’s column by Paul Gullixson in the Press Democrat: 1. The supervisors never adopted the pension increase as required by law. Instead, and this the county...
View ArticleCoping with the public employee pension albatross
Instead of the cross, the albatross About my neck was hung. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798 By Ed Ring | In Coleridge’s famous poem, a sailor who killed an albatross...
View ArticleForum tomorrow in Newport Beach will address California’s public pension crisis
The Association of California Cities-Orange County will hold a pension forum Friday in Newport Beach featuring several local leaders. The discussion of California’s public pension crisis will include...
View ArticleHave a great Independence Day holiday
We’re going to celebrate my favorite holiday — the Fourth of July — by taking a few extra days to rejuvenate. We’ll be back with more news of escalating state and local government pension crises on...
View ArticlePensionTsunami is taking a break
We’re taking my favorite holiday — the Fourth of July — as an opportunity to rejuvenate for several days. We may post a headline or two each day if they seem important, but otherwise we hope to be back...
View ArticlePensionTsunami Is Taking a Four-Day Weekend
Pension news has been very sparse lately and the past two weeks have been especially — trying as well as very hot — so we’re going to take off early for the Labor Day weekend. See you on Tuesday! —...
View ArticleWe’re taking a long Thanksgiving weekend
We’ve taken off for the long weekend and will be back on Monday. We hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving holiday weekend. — Jack Dean, Editor
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