This year, California voters passed over 90% of proposed local bonds and over 70% of proposed local taxes. Much attention was given to Prop 55. and …
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NEWS: California governor, Legislature are now highest paid in nation
California's politicians will receive a pay raise of 4% that was approved today. The justification for the pay raise: a healthier economy and better …
ANALYSIS: California Is Still the Golden State for Teacher Unions
Unions won big in California this November. Their ballot initiatives and Senate candidate won, in addition to helping Democrats regain their …
NEWS: SoCal business costs are only going up
A newly released report reviewed over 300 American cities and a dozen of the top 20 most expensive cities, to do business, were in California. Not …
NEWS: California Democrats got their supermajority. Now what?
The 29th Senate district results have been counted and California Democrats have reclaimed their supermajority in both Senate and Assembly. By …
NEWS: Why it’s getting more expensive to do business in California
A new study from Claremont McKenna College's Rose Institute ranks the West's most costly cities for business, reports Southern California Public …
EDITORIAL: Pension mess: California’s leaders letting state down
Rapidly rising pension obligations have begun to result in reduced local government services, and unfunded pension liabilities may be up to $75,000 …
OPINION: How Long Until Hillary’s Utopia Escapes California?
America went red this election, but California went deep blue. In a year when the nation seemingly overwhelmingly sided with Republicans on issues, …
OPINION: Paying for public retirees has never cost L.A. taxpayers more. And that’s after pension reform
Los Angeles pension costs now cost the city 20 percent of its revenue, and reforms t0uted by city leaders will not produce savings for decades, …
OPINION: How These Public Schools Went from ‘Exemplary’ to ‘Deteriorating’ in Just Months
It appears that California schools have some explaining to do. Some school districts like Brea-Olinda Unified School District proposed school bonds or …