California: California

This is from the current edition of the wonderful nationally syndicated weekly column by Chuck Shepherd: Inexplicable While state and local governments furiously pare budgets by laying off and furloughing workers, retired bureaucrats who receive defined-benefit pensions (rather than flexible...

I was happy to see Dan Walters go after the utter farce that is the California high-speed rail project: ... skepticism is especially warranted now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other promoters, having persuaded voters to pass a $9.95 billion...

The L.A. Times' George Skelton comments favorably on George's weekend speech and endorses one of the chief justice's key points: George lamented that lawmakers and California itself "have been placed in a fiscal straitjacket" by the two-thirds majority vote requirement...

The Obama administration has asked California to explain how furloughs for state workers are affecting the state's ability to meet an escalating demand for unemployment insurance benefits and services to millions of jobless people. That's from the L.A. Times. Remember,...