Hey Central Valley, Happy Bizarro-Earth Day!
In Superman comics, “Bizarro World” is a universe where wrong is right, and Superman’s clone is a villain. The parallel planet’s name is “Earth” spelled backwards – htraE. But it’s not just in comic books that you encounter the specter of evil twins and vertigo-inducing inversions. Today, as we mark Earth Day, 2015 – with […]
Business Interests and Pension Reform
As the battle over public pension reform heats up as Calpensions Ed Mendel explained last week, the question for California’s business community is will it get involved? A number of reasons have been offered to suggest business would stay on the sidelines if a pension reform initiative qualified for the ballot. The fear that such […]
Which Low-Down Do You Prefer on Pensions?
And you thought it was just all the math and actuarial tables that make pension ballot measures confusing. Now California faces the prospect of old-fashioned human confusion as San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed pursues another pension measure: key voices both for and against the measure have the same name. Welcome to the David Low vs. […]
Wrong Prescription
Kamala Harris is nothing if not a politician. And she demonstrated that with her politicized handling of the sale of the Daughters of Charity Health System. What should have been a clean transfer of ownership has become an embarrassment for the attorney general. Not to mention it could result in a loss of service to […]