Obamacare by the Numbers: Not a Pretty Picture
“The Affordable Care Act is no longer a political abstraction,” writes a Washington Post blogger. He’s right; it’s underway and the picture of Obamacare “by the numbers” is not pretty. The national rollout has been a disaster because of a crashing website that has prevented people from signing up and may take months to fix. But Covered California, […]
Do We Have a “Grover Norquist Problem”?
The recent news from the political research firm Grassroots Lab, that registered Republicans comprise a majority of California’s local government elected positions, has sent shockwaves through the Party’s ranks. In a state where Democrats are a super majority in the Legislature and hold every statewide office, the fact that Republicans serve in about half of […]
GOP Lawmakers Deliver Key Votes for Tax Extension
Last month, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a $2.3 billion tax extension. The measure, authored by a Central Valley Democrat, passed both houses of the legislature with overwhelmingly Democratic support. Yet, the multi-billion dollar tax extension, a Democratic creation, couldn’t have passed the legislature without the help of Republican lawmakers. Nine Republican legislators, […]
126 Local Governments Called Out by State Controller for Not Filing Financial Books
We learn from our mistakes—that’s how we grow and in the end, succeed, right? Well you’d think after the 2010 corruption scandal that rocked the working-class city of Bell, about 7 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California local governments would bend over backwards to ensure their decisions and financial dealings were as transparent as […]