California voters set a record last November for most local sales taxes approved or extended at 66. Those local taxes will go into effect on April 1. …
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OPINION: California’s Labor Relations Board Faces Accusations Of Corruption, Collusion
Governor Brown's recent appointment of former State Assemblyman Isadore Hall to the state's Agriculture Labor Relations Board has raised concerns over …
OPINION: Can a city threaten to remove police protection from you for voting to repeal a tax?
Recently San Ramon officials exploited a legal loophole to raise taxes with only one person's approval. They included a "poisoin pill" in this tax …
NEWS: Miners win $100 million from Sacramento County in political influence case
A Sacramento mining operation, run by the Hardesty and Schneider families, won a $100 million court case against the County of Sacramento, after the …
OPINION: California’s cap-and-trade train wreck
California is building the nation's first high speed railway, and they're going to pay for it with revenue from the cap and trade program. But the OC …
OPINION: Hot new idea out of California: maybe teachers shouldn’t have to pay state income taxes
California's public school system is having a hard time recruiting new teachers to work across the state. The State Legislature has proposed a bill to …
OPINION: State needs transportation reform and better priorities, not tax increases, to fix infrastructure
California has long deferred maintenance on its infrastructure and now it has reached a critical point. The Los Angeles Daily News reports that …
OPINION: Borenstein: CalPERS, unions deceiving public about pensions
CalPERS is claiming that the pension reform it has pushed for has made a difference. Daniel Borenstein, of the East Bay Times thinks differently, and …
OPINION: Why California cities and counties should act scared by pension payments
Sacramento's new City Manager is warning city departments that their requests for money from the city's budget might not go through. The Sac Bee …
OPINION: Our highways need improving. But it shouldn’t take new taxes to do it.
Sacramento is considering legislation to increase gas and car taxes to pay for road repairs, but the real issue is not actually a revenue problem, …