Government Waste

• LaHood’s California High-Speed Rail Bluff–Demands CA Begin Spending $200 Billion for Train
      LaHood’s California High-Speed Rail Bluff By Joe Mathews , nbclosangeles,  5/13/12 U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is bluffing. Badly. He came to California [...]
• Lawmakers: Health care districts must unleash bank accounts–unions wants the $$$
      Lawmakers: Health care districts must unleash bank accounts Bill would direct at least 95 percent of annual funding for community health By [...]
• $300,000 of Your Tax $$ to Study “”Understanding the Origins of the Gender Gap in Political Ambition,”—Golden Fleece of the Week
      Playing Politics With Poli Sci Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed,  5/11/12 WASHINGTON — Rep. Jeff Flake tried and failed this week [...]
• Dangers of the CA Ballot Initiative—Gov’t Lies About How $$ Will Really be Spent
      Dangers of the Ballot Initiative -By Warner Todd Huston, 5/12/12 At first blush, the idea of having ballot initiatives on election day [...]
• Strickland: Reuseable Grocery Bags are Health Hazards
      Strickland To Public Health Doubters: Reusable Bag Awareness Campaign Needed Now by Senator Tony Strickland, 5/11/12 SACRAMENTO, CA – State Senator [...]
• Obama Makes 93,000 Californians NON PEOPLE Today
      Long-term unemployment benefits end tomorrow for many Central Valley Business Times, 5/11/12 •  93,000 Californians will be immediately affected •  Four [...]
• San Diego City Council to Decide: Are Arts More Important Than Saving City From Bankruptcy or Hiring Needed Cops
    City Council Backs Push for Greater Arts Funding   San Diego News Room,5/9/12    SAN DIEGO [...]
• Law would require some L.A. markets to keep shopping carts from leaving site–cost $40,000
      Law would require some L.A. markets to keep shopping carts from leaving site Rikc Orlov, Daily News,   05/08/2012 The Los Angeles [...]
• Sacramento Spent $680,000 On Failed Arena Deal
      $680,000 Spent On Failed Arena Deal City Council Vote Would Take Back Remaining Funds KCRA, 5/8/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE [...]
• Donna Lowe: Off the rails of a high-speed train
      Off the rails of a high-speed train Donna Lowe, Assembly Candidate 41st District, Exclusive to the California Political News and [...]
• How Democrats/Unions Waste $500,000 on Printing of Election Guides—Use Only UNION Workers
        Taxpayers Shelling Out More For Voter Guides Is Pricey Printing To Blame? Mike Luery/KCRA, 5/7/12   http://www.kcra.com/politics/31023170/detail.html#ixzz1uEoETOKI TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK [...]
• Remote Solar Plants Come with Added Costs–Tax $$ and Higher Rates
      Remote Solar Plants Come with Added Costs New transmission lines will be needed to carry power from the desert to the [...]
• America Under Obama: A Nation Financially Crumbling
      America Under Obama:  A Nation Financially Crumbling OIW, 5/12 Today, President Obama Claimed “We Measure Prosperity” By “How Well The Typical [...]
• Unneeded Gov’t Agency Unable to Stop Wasting $$ Billions
      Calif. stem cell research discovers white elephant By Wayne Lusvardi, CalWatchdog, 5/4/12 Now that stem cells have become obsolete, can California’s entrenched [...]
• Sacramento Non-Profit says can’t repay city for loan on athletics event
      Group says can’t repay city for loan on athletics event Sacramento Business Journal by Kelly Johnson, [...]
• Little by Little Gov’t Cutting Positions—But Maybe Not Jobs. Confusing!
      Layoffs Grow to 229 in Riverside; Pink slips Total Number Issued in 3 Previous Yrs Combined California County News,  5/2/12 At the [...]
• U.S. Postal Service: $25 Billion of Losses in Five Years—And Growing
  Morning Bell: Is the Postal Service Doomed? Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation,  5/3/12 If you ran a business with $25 billion in losses [...]
• California Used To Embody Stable, Middle-Class Living. It Was a Brief Interlude.
      We’re All Temps Now California Used To Embody Stable, Middle-Class Living. It Was a Brief Interlude. by Michael Bernick, Zocalopublicsquare, 4/29/12 The photo [...]
• Obama Pushes False GM Success Story– Caught Lying, AGAIN
      Obama Pushes False GM Success Story Investors Business Daily,  4/30/12 Politics: The Obama camp can’t stop clucking about how he saved GM [...]
• FPPC Chair Wants to Fund Agency With George Soros/Al Gore $$?
      FPPC chair backs away from mandatory disclosure of blogger payments By John Hrabe, Cal Watchdog,  4/30/12 Following widespread criticism from online pundits [...]
• Bullet train’s low operating costs are ‘elephant in room,’ experts say
      Bullet train’s low operating costs are ‘elephant in room,’ experts say Lance Williams , California Watch, 4/30/12 By hitting the reset button, [...]
• Chevrolet Discontinues Avalanche Truck–Despite Better Sales than Volt
      Chevrolet Discontinues Avalanche Truck–Despite Better Sales than Volt by Seton Motley, Big Government, 4/29/12   http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/30/Chevrolet-Discontinues-Avalanche-Truck–Despite-Better-Sales-than-Volt Chevrolet will discontinue the pickup/sport utility hybrid [...]
• Grimes: AB 1692 could halt city bankruptcies
      AB 1692 could halt city bankruptcies By Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog, 4/26/12 SACRAMENTO — Bankruptcy still haunts California cities six months after Gov. [...]
• Bill requiring peripheral canal cost-benefit analysis clears committee
      Bill requiring peripheral canal cost-benefit analysis clears committee by Dan Bacher, Indybay,  4/24/12 The Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee on April [...]
• Assemblymember Olsen on Speaker’s Proposal to Fund the Commission on the Status of Women
      Statement by Assemblymember Olsen on Speaker’s Proposal to Fund the Commission on the Status of Women Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen,  4/24/12 SACRAMENTO – [...]
• Despite Concerns, BART Recommends Canadian Firm to Build New Fleet
      Despite Concerns, BART Recommends Canadian Firm to Build New Fleet Critics say a competitor would have created more jobs in the [...]
• “Gouged” by Some Small Groceries, Gov’t Food Program Cracks Down
  run and own our grocery stores—and all of this in the “name” of protecting the poor—by making all of us [...]
• Grimes: Business Treats Gov’t Workers as Charity Cases or?
      ‘Will work for shoes’ By Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog, 4/22/12 State employee discounts are getting ridiculous. Despite the fact that California state and local [...]
• Wells Fargo Take Back Three Parking Garages From Stockton—City Defaulted on Bonds
      Wells Fargo takes three Stockton parking garages in default Central Valley Business Times,  4/19/12 •  Garages will remain open and available [...]
• Donna Lowe: Democrats Squash Pro-Business/Employee Benefit Bills
      Democrats Squash Pro-Business/Employee Benefit Bills Donna Lowe, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views,  4/23/12 The Democrats in Sacramento continue to [...]
• CA Unemployment Rises—State Depression Continues
      California’s unemployment rate increases to 11.0 percent Central Valley Business Times, 4/20/12 •  Nonfarm payroll jobs increase by 18,200 in March •  [...]
• Unionized San Fran NON PROFITS Demand Gov’t Get Them
      Hundreds of Nonprofit Workers Tell Supervisors “We Need a Raise!” by Randy Shaw‚ BeyondChron, 4/19/12 In what was likely the largest [...]
• CalPRS BLOWS Half a Billion $$ on Amateur Computer System
      $500M state pension software system wracked by backlogs Officials: Problems will get worse before they get better Chris Kanaracus ,(IDG News Service),  [...]
• CA budget analyst says to halt $68B high-speed rail project
      California budget analyst says to halt $68B high-speed rail project Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal by David Goll, 4/18/12 The [...]
• Governor wants to trim 718 unnecessary reports–Why Didn’t Arnold Do That?
      Governor wants to trim 718 unnecessary reports Sacramento Business Journal by Melissa Wiese, 4/18/12 California Gov. Jerry Brown, who has been busy [...]
• Democrats Want Control Over Your Computer—Want to “Regulate” VOIP systems on Computer
    Voice-over-internet at heart of regulatory debate By John Howard, Capitol Weekly, 04/17/12 The wildly expanding and lucrative push to voice-over-internet systems [...]
• Dept.of Energy backed solar company lays off 2000–We Lose a Billion $$
        DOE-backed solar company lays off 2000 byJoel Gehrke Examiner.com,  4/17/12 First Solar, a solar energy company that received a $1.46 billion loan [...]
• San Fran advised to clean up act on surplus property
      City advised to clean up act on surplus property By: Dan Schreiber, SF Examiner, 04/12/12 Mayor Ed Lee recently took the San [...]
• Los Angeles County Sued for Plastic Bag TAX
      Plaintiffs File Appeal in Lee Schmeer v. Los Angeles County Press Release,  4/16/12 LOS ANGELES, April 16, — The plaintiffs in Lee [...]
• Cal Chamber lists ‘jobs killer’ bills–all by Democrats
        Cal Chamber lists ‘jobs killer’ bills By Joseph Perkins, CalWatchdog,  4/13/12 Nearly two and a half years into California’s recovery from its [...]
• Bankrupt LA Provides 30 Free Pianos Throughout City
        Bankrupt LA Provides 30 Free Pianos Throughout City by John Nolt, Big Government,  4/13/12 Record federal deficits? So what. Los Angeles on [...]
• San Fran Spends $205,075 in Obama Stimulus $$ to ”Translocate” a Single Shrub
      Shovel Ready in San Fran: $205,075 to ‘Translocate’ One Shrub from Path of Stimulus Project By Thomas Cloud, CNSNews,  4/12/12 The government [...]
• Even Media Knows Fraud of Tobacco Tax Ballot Measure.
      Just Because They’re Evil Doesn’t Mean They’re Wrong By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles, 4/14/12 News item: The tobacco industry is pouring money into [...]
• State Deficit to Go Up by Millions Court Declares. “Professional” Guv Jerry Caught Violating Another State Contract
    Judge leaning toward furlough back pay for California state engineers, scientists Sacramento Bee, 4/12/12 Roughly 13,000 state workers could receive [...]
• The pros and cons of CA municipal bankruptcy
      The pros and cons of municipal bankruptcy By Tori Richards, Cal Watchdog, 4/12/12 What’s better for a cash-strapped municipality: filing for bankruptcy [...]
• Left Exposes Obama Crony Capitalism Waste of Billions of Tax $$
      Energy-backed firms award bonuses, file bankruptcy By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk, IWatch, 3/12/12 President Obama’s Department of Energy financed [...]
• S.F. might school scofflaw cyclists: How Gov’t Wastes $$
      S.F. might school scofflaw cyclists By: Dan Schreiber, SF Examiner,  04/10/12 Bicyclists behaving badly in San Francisco could soon find [...]
• Obama Uses $465 million tax $$ to help Abu Dhabi make $113 million profit
      Abu Dhabi cashes out of Tesla with $113M profit Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, 4/9/12 Abu Dhabi National Energy has [...]
• High Speed Rail Gets Another Look–Now a Slow, Expensive Fraud
      High Speed Rail Gets Another Look High speed rail no longer costs as much as it did a few months ago. By [...]
• Young People Can’t Afford Cars—Forced to Use Gov’t Transportation
      Young people relying less and less on auto travel By: Will Reisman, SF Examiner, 04/05/12 Travelers of all ages are becoming less [...]
• Stuart Varney Says California is the Formerly Golden State
  We’ve been saying it for a while, California ain’t what it used to be. Today we have a brand new [...]
• Putting high-speed rail on fast track may just slow down train
  Great news for road safety—Jerry Brown no longer supports high speed rail.  Now he supports a $68 billion choo choo [...]
• Obama Slush Fund Loses ANOTHER $2.1 Billion in “Solar” Investment
        Solar company bankrupt despite ‘win-win’ DOE loan by Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner,  4/3/12 In keeping with the recent trend of so-called green [...]
• CA Cities Have Become Loan Sharks Using Previous Redevelopment Agency Slush Funds—City of Ventura Has Become a Loan Operation
      Redevelopment Morphs Into Loan Sharking By Wayne Lusvardi, CalWatchdog, 4/2/12 California redevelopment agencies may have been phased out. But cities are getting [...]
• CA High Speed Rail Customers? Will go From Merced to Palmdale!!! Guaranteed Economic Disaster
      High-speed rail would expand Central Valley buildout Central Valley Business Times,  4/2/12 •  Would start in Merced, end in Palmdale •  [...]
• Bond downgrade to cost San Jose $350,000 This Year–$1.4 Million Next
    Bond downgrade to cost San Jose $350,000 Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, 3/28/12 Moody’s Investment Services A bond downgrade by Moody’s [...]
• Jerry Lies About “New Costs” for Slush Fund High Speed Rail—Forget to Mention NO Longer High Speed or Lack of Riders
      California lawmakers skeptical of lowered price tag for high-speed rail By David Siders, Sacramento Bee, 4/1/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON [...]
• Student Loan Default Rate OVER 50%–Gov’t wants to Make Transparent Loans “More” Transparent—and Expensive
    Officials zero in on private student loans Erica Perez, California Watch,  3/30/12 As the cost of higher education continues to increase and [...]
• State divvies up more than a quarter of a billion for construction
      State divvies up more than a quarter of a billion for construction Central Valley Business Times, 3/29/12 •  Will be spent [...]
• Palo Alto Saves Landfill by Financially Breaking Families and Businesses
        Consequences of Conservation Joseph Perkins, Calwatchdog,  3/23/12 Palo Alto residents have responded admirably to the city’s “Zero Waste” campaign, which aims to [...]
• Brown Wants State to Pay for “Hydrogen” Re-charging Stations for MILLION $$ Cars!
      After failing to reach goals, California attempts to jump-start its ‘Hydrogen Highway‘ By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, 3/26/12 TO [...]
• SB 375 (Now Law) to End Car Use in CA—Bribing Cities with Tax $$
    Climate Change Planning: An Opportunity for Public Health By Pilar Lorenzana-Campo, Healthycal.org, 2/23/12 Groundbreaking legislation passed in 2008 could be a major [...]
• Jerry Brown STEALS $120 Million Settlement Meant for CA Families and Business for Personal Toys
      California to get $120M for electric car charging in Dynegy case settlement San Francisco Business Times by Steven E.F. Brown, 3/23/12 Governor [...]
• Billionaires Play Toy: America’s Cup layoffs affect half of San Fran staff
      America’s Cup layoffs affect half of San Francisco staff San Francisco Business Times by Eric Young, 3/23/12 America’s Cup officials laid off [...]
• $6 Billion bond half spent—demand more $$–for more of NOTHING
      Proposition 71 stem cell research funds drying up Nannette Miranda, KABC, 3/22/12 TOO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “When people [...]
• Town Uses Tax $$ to Poll if Raising a Tax Would Pass—Corruption in System
      Goleta might increase hotel bed taxes By Nick C. Tonkin, Daily Sound, 3/21/12 The City of Goleta opted to spring $20,500 [...]
• Gov’t Agency Troubled By Continued CPUC Approval of Overpriced Renewable Projects
  Did you know that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) had a department called Division of Ratepayer   DRA Troubled By Continued [...]
• Ballot box is desired destination of new effort to derail high-speed rail
      Ballot box is desired destination of new effort to derail high-speed rail Central Valley Business Times,  3/19/12 •  Initiative given the [...]
• Senator Anderson: State can only afford to pay one Governor
      Anderson: State can only afford to pay one Governor Senator Joel Anderson, 3/19/12 Senator Joel Anderson (R-Alpine) has introduced a measure that [...]
• Modesto: $9,000 per Truck for single NO SMOKING SIGN—With TAX $$$
      No smoking here: $450K grant pays for taco truck signs and more By Ken Carlson , Modesto Bee,   3/14/12 TO SEE THE [...]
• Local Governments Getting on Board to Support Harkey’s Choo Choo Train Lemon Law
      Local Governments Getting on Board to Support Harkey’s Lemon Law Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, 3/15/12 SACRAMENTO – Joining with the Orange County Board [...]
• Obama and his 50-buck light bulb
      Obama and the 50-buck light bulb A bankrupt America can’t afford expensive green luxuries Washington Times editorial,  3/9/12 The 50-dollar light bulb is [...]
• Hedgecock: Obama believes you have too much money
      Roger in WND: Obama’s gas prices Roger Hedgecock,  3/12/11 When President Obama came into office in January 2009, San Diego gasoline prices [...]
• Guesstimating ticket prices for new arena for billionaire play toys
    Guesstimating ticket prices for new arena Sacramento Business Journal by Michael Shaw, 3/5/12 How much would ticket prices at a new arena [...]
• CA Claims Unemployment Rate is 10.9%–When You Ignore Long Term Unemployed
      California’s unemployment rate drops to 10.9 percent Central Valley Business Times,  3/9/12 •  But not in the Central Valley where jobless [...]
• Sandra Fluke: Get Out of My Uterus, But Buy Stuff for It
    Sandra Fluke: Get Out of My Uterus, But Buy Stuff for It by Kristen Walker, LifeNews.com, 3/7/12 I worry about my [...]
• Feds Spend $250,000 to Tell Pasadena Students to Walk or Bicycle to School
  Does a guy on Food Stamps in Hoboken need to pay taxes so a 12 year old in Pasadena can [...]
• Grimes: Pols Build Arena While Sacto Burns
      Pols Build Arena While Sacto Burns Katy Grimes:, Cal Watchdog,  3/7/12 Sacramento’s City Council approved the arena financing plan last night, 7-2, [...]
• Obama: $11 Million TAX DOLLARS to Create TWO Jobs in a Detroit Boutique
      Stimulus money meant to help 400 Detroit job-seekers reportedly helped 2 FoxNews.com, 3/7/12 A chunk of an $11 million stimulus grant meant [...]
• DUI convictions at risk following San Fran PD revelations
    DUI convictions at risk following SFPD revelations By: Ari Burack, SF Examiner,   03/05/12 The SFPD have suspended use of their mobile [...]
• Obama Uses Tax $$ to Force You to Buy “Car to Nowhere”
      ‘Fire Sale’ Prices Can’t Save Chevy Volt By JOSEPH PERKINS, Cal Watchdgo,3/5/12 Wouldn’t you know it: No sooner did General Motors start [...]
• Bail Out of Redevelopment Agencies Pushing Two More Cities to Bankruptcy
      Will Stockton Trigger Bankruptcy Run? By WAYNE LUSVARDI, Cal Watchdog,  3/2/12 Stockton … Hercules … Lincoln … Milpitas.  The list of cities [...]
• Fraud: General Motors LIED About Profit—it is Paper Profit, Not Real $$
          Obamas Hidden $18B Gift to GM: Stuffing Dealer Inventories and GMs Biggest Profit in 100 Year History By Maggie, Maggies Notebook,   [...]
• Government Agency loans money to other government agencies and “non profits”.
      Infrastructure bank offers low rates for government projects Sacramento Business Journal by Michael Shaw, 2.29.12 The California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank [...]
• San Fran Tax on Lawyers? To Pay for FREE Civil Suit Attorneys for Indigents
      The right to a civil lawyer Tim Redmond, sfbg, 2/29/12   I like Sup. David Chiu’s idea of giving indigent plaintiffs in civil [...]
• San Fran Billionaires Boat Race Loses $111 Million Boondoggle—Where is Occupier Gang?
      America’s Cup real estate deal thrown overboard By: Dan Schreiber, SF Examiner, 02/28/12 The development deal was scrapped and renegotiated in recent [...]
• Audit a Gov’t Program and You Find Waste–$27.4 Million in Hearing Aid Expenditures, this time.
      Controller Review of Health Care Services Hearing Aids Program Finds Millions in Waste State Controller John Chiang, 2/27/12 SACRAMENTO – State Controller [...]
• Fox ‘Alcatraz’ filmed in Vancouver—Cheaper Than San Fran
      S.F.’s inability to nab ‘Alcatraz’ spotlights film industry woes By: Joshua Sabatinixaminer, 02/26/12 It may be Alcatraz but it’s filmed in Vancouver. Alcatraz [...]
• Environmentalist Lawsuits Can Save San Fran Millions—Stop Billionaires Boat Race, using Tax $$
    Lawsuit filed over key America’s Cup environmental report By: Dan Schreiber, 02/26/12 http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/02/lawsuit-filed-over-key-americas-cup-environmental-report#ixzz1nVH1poav Negotiations between The City and the America’s Cup yacht race [...]
• Democrat Think Gov’t Must Control NON Alcoholic Drinks for Population
      Williams Introduces Assembly Bill to Ban Sale of Sports Drinks in Schools The legislation would support a nationwide movement to fight [...]
• Job Poachers: City Officials Fume after Business Snatched by Neighbor City w/ Incentives
  Job Poachers: City Officials Fume after Business Snatched by Neighbor City w/ Incentives California City News,  2/23/12 In our current economic [...]
• San Fran To Lose Tens of Millions of $$ Subsidizing Billionaires Boat Race
  As final approvals near, real draw of America’s Cup questioned http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/bay-area/2012/02/final-approvals-near-real-draw-america-s-cup-questioned#ixzz1n28rLAmv By: Dan Schreiber, [...]
• Grimes: Free College Education Brings 50% DROP Out Rate
  State Edu-Welfare Expansion Plans Katy Grimes:  Cal Watchdog, 2/21/12 More than 50 percent of California college students do not pay for school [...]
• I’m From the Gov’t: Freeze! Drop The Lunch Box
  Freeze! Drop The Lunch Box! Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog,  2/16/12 Last week, a 4-year old had her homemade lunch confiscated by a [...]
• CA Gov’t/Non-profit Giving FREE Condoms/Lube by Mail to 12 Year Olds
  Can’t afford condoms? The Condom Access Project (CAP) has you covered for free…literally! Condom Access Project, Over here at TeenSource, we [...]
• Sacto Democrats: Food (Trucks) As Dangerous as Tobacco, Drugs, Perverts and Alcohol
  AB 1678 (Monning) Mobile food facilities: school campus location. Around the Capitol, 2/17/12 The California Retail Food Code provides for the regulation [...]
• Will Santa Barbara Subsidize Building of Luxury Hotel? Why we are in a Depression?
  Miramar Developer Seeks 10-Year County Tax Rebate to Help Get Hotel Project Off the Ground By Alex Kacik, Noozhawk, 02.16.2012 The [...]
• How Lower Income Citizens Commute–They do not like Gov’t transportation
  How Lower Income Citizens Commute http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21603&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD National Center for Policy Analysis, 2/15/12 In advocating urbanization and smart growth opportunities, activists often [...]
• In Bythe: Another Taxpayer Funded $825 Million Solar Loan Going to Waste
  Another Taxpayer Funded $825 Million Solar Loan Going to Waste Katie Pavlich, Townhall, 2/14/12 Solyndra? Let’s try Genesis. In Southern California, federal [...]
• Bankrupt San Fran to Lose Big Bucks on Private Boat Race?
  Regatta deal might sink San Francisco’s coffers By: Dan Schreiber, SF Examiner, 02/10/12 It [...]
• San Diego Streets Bad for Five Years PLUS $500 Million Borrowed–Billion $ Pay Back
  Streets Will Worsen for Next Five Years, Report Says by [...]
• Sacramento area gets $200,000 to talk about electric cars–no product, just talk
  Sacramento area gets $200,000 to talk about electric cars http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=20377 Central Valley Business Times, 2/9/12 •  Energy Commission cuts the check •  [...]
• Sacramento Energy Crisis Coming: Part 2–High Speed Rail is Energy Disaster
  California Energy Crash Coming By KATY GRIMES,Cal Watchdog, 2/8/12 Ready for more electricity blackouts? With California’s renewable energy mandates, cap and trade requirements, [...]
• 70% of Community College Students Get FREE Tuition
  LAO nixes Gov’s community college budget  Analyst gives task force proposals higher marks By Kathryn Baron, svef,  2/9/12   Gov. [...]
• Bill Would Allow Counties to Ship Overflow Criminals to Other States
  Bill Would Allow Counties to Negotiate with Other States to Export Inmates California County News,  2/8/12 Counties would have one more [...]
• Put Textbooks on The Internet: Save $$ and Stop Killing Tree’s
  High cost of textbooks serves as barrier to education By: Amy Crawford, [...]
• San Fran “Parklets”–Gov’t Stealing Parking Spaces to Kill Cars to Help Special Interests
  San Francisco’s Parklets: Another Stupid Liberal Idea Capitol Commentary,  4/6/12 I’ve lived in San Francisco since 1995 and, for part of [...]
• Spain Shows Guv Brown How Choo Choo Train Can Bankrupt CA as Well
  Minimal impact on cities, farms helped Spain avoid high-speed rail opposition Tim Sheehan, California Watch, 1/22/12 LA ESTACIÓN, SPAIN – [...]
• Grappling with the $11billion water bond–created for and by politicians
  Grappling with the water bond John Howard, Capitol Weekly, 2/2/12 “Steinberg said it was conceivable that the bond could be reduced [...]
• CalSTRS ADMITS Either Fraud or Incompetence–Drops Fund Projections
  CalSTRS Drops Fund Projections John Seiler, Calwatchdog,  2/3/12 Putting its investment projections slightly more in line with reality, yesterday CalSTRS [...]
• Gov’t Study: Gov’t Employees Paid Much More Than Private Sector
  Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private-Sector Employees Government Budget Office, January, 2012 How does the compensation of federal civilian employees compare [...]
• Grimes: Bills Address High-Speed Gravy Train
  Bills Address High-Speed Gravy Train Katy Grimes, Cal Watchdog,  1/30/12 Gov. Jerry Brown announced over the weekend that he plans to [...]
• What Recovery? Sacramento home prices on track to drop another 2.6%
  Sacramento home prices on track to drop another 2.6% Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• CA Redevelopment Agencies Facing Default
  Redevelopment Agencies Facing Default By CHRISS STREET, Cal Watchdog,  1/23/12 Public officials are scrambling to deal with the California Supreme Court’s decision [...]
• Under Obama, Price of Gas Has Jumped 83%, Ground Beef 24%, Bacon 22 %
  Under Obama, Price of Gas Has Jumped 83 Percent, Ground Beef 24 Percent, Bacon 22 Percent By Christopher Goins, CNSNew.com,  [...]
• CA air board to vote on landmark electric-car rules-Force us to Buy Electric cars
  California air board to vote on landmark electric-car rules By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News,  1/16/12 In a move that [...]
• Obama-backed electric car battery-maker files for bankruptcy–$118 Million of tax $$ Involved
  Obama-backed electric car battery-maker files for bankruptcy By Andrew Restuccia, the Hill, 01/26/12 An Indiana-based energy-storage company, whose subsidiary [...]
• Doomed redevelopment agencies leave debt of $30 billion
  Doomed redevelopment agencies leave debt of $30 billion by Teri Sforza, OC Register,  1/25/12 TO SEE THE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON [...]
• State Auditor’s report blasts High-Speed Rail project
  State Auditor’s report blasts High-Speed Rail project http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=20246 Central Valley Business Times, 1/24/12 •  Says financing is ‘risky’ •  ‘It [...]
• CalPERS earns 1.1% on investments in 2011–Not Promised 7.75%
  CalPERS earns 1.1% on investments in 2011 It falls short of the 7.75% average that actuaries say CalPERS needs to [...]
• CA Democrat Waste of the Week: Senator wants pet groomers to be licensed by state
  Senator wants pet groomers to be licensed by state LA Times, 1/21/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “Vargas [...]
• Forecast predicts slow job growth in Sacramento region
  State deficits could reach $40billion, again.  It is already at $21 billion. Local governments do not have enough [...]
• CA unemployment rate drops via statistics–Real Rate Over 20%
  California’s unemployment rate drops Central Valley Business Times,  1/20/12 •  But it jumps in the Central Valley to some of [...]
• Sacramento Billionaires Could Lose Taxpayer Paid for Stadium for Play Toy Team
          Think Big report: Failing to build arena would hurt region’s economy Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• Bellies and Barrels … and Why LA Should Take the Lead on Oil –Democrats Say NO to Oil
  Bellies and Barrels … and Why LA Should Take the Lead on Oil Kay Marti, LA City Watch,  [...]
• Fresh Winds Blowing on CA High Speed Rail–Wind of Common Sense?
    Fresh Winds Blowing on California High Speed Rail by Ken Orski , New Geography, 01/17/2012 For California’s beleaguered high-speed [...]
• CA Ranks Near the Bottom for Number of Public-Sector Workers–Still Too Many
  CA Ranks Near the Bottom for Number of Public-Sector Workers California City News,  1/16/12 Economist Steve Levy has done a bit of [...]
• Citing Costs, Poor Service, Charters Ditch District Special Ed
      Citing Costs, Poor Service, Charters Ditch District Special Ed Jumping Ship In recent years, dozens of charter schools have found ways [...]
• Gov’t to Kill Cars in Bay Area–Force Citizens Into Gov’t/Union Run Transportation
        Bureaucratic Octopus Grabs Bay Area By DAVE ROBERTS, Cal Watchdog, 1/16/12 Like a giant octopus grabbing helpless humans in a horror movie, [...]
• Obama Waste Our Billions: Automakers on Green Car Sales: They Stink!
  Automakers on Green Car Sales: They Stink! Yid With a Lid,  1/15/12 Much of the electric and hybrid car business [...]
• Every Year Boondoggles Pile Up in CA
  Every Year Boondoggles Pile Up in California -By Warner Todd Huston,Publius Forum,  1/15/12 The left-wing idea that it’s good for [...]
• Obama Spends $6 Million of YOUR Taxes to Create 20 “Green” Jobs
  Examining a Federally Funded $6 Million ‘Green Jobs’ Boondoggle in Wisconsin Less than Two Dozen Jobs Created MacIver News Service, 1/4/12 [Madison, Wisc...] [...]
• Misleading “Leaders” Quit Choo Choo Train Fiasco
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• CA Credit Lines Drawn Down 85 Percent
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