Cost-cutting Won’t Come Easy to UC
California voters may have backed his Prop. 30 tax hike, but get used to hearing Gov. Jerry Brown talk about the need to still keep trimming state expenses. Whether anyone will be listening is another question. On Tuesday, for example, the governor made a rare appearance at a UC Regents meeting and voted against paying […]
The Way Back for GOP Runs Through the Schools
Memo to California Republicans, or at least those who will still admit to being Republicans. You’re failures. You’re irrelevant. You’re dead. And that’s just what other Republicans are saying about you. You’re also getting a ton of advice. And most of that advice is negative – in that it suggests that you need to stop […]
Beware – A Water Supply Disaster
“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go Even the most skilled […]
LA City Hall Can Kickers: What Is Your Solution for the $19 Billion Pension Liability?
Now that the Riordan Plan for pension reform is off the table, how do the “can kickers” that occupy City Hall propose to balance the budget, fix our streets, and fully fund our pension plans that are $19 billion underwater? Under the Riordan Plan, the City would have saved about $400 to $500 million a […]