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New Pension Initiatives Target Current Workers
NOTE: An earlier version of this posting misidentified conservative pension activist Marcia Fritz as one of the members of the group behind the new initiative campaign. Getty/David McNewThere's a...
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Some of the greatest political fights in California have been about taxpayer dollars -- who pays them, who spends them, who's spending too many of them. And two classic high price tag fights both made...
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Analyst: Take a Pass on Tinkering With Current Worker Pensions
While referring to Governor Jerry Brown's proposal for changes in public employee pensions as a "bold, excellent starting point," the state's independent fiscal analyst's office nonetheless concludes...
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Brown's Pension Musings: From Ponzi to Castor Oil
Getty/Max WhittakerFew governors could probably pull off an appearance like Governor Jerry Brown's visit to a legislative committee examining his proposal to rework the public employee pension system....
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Brown Interview: Pensive, Upbeat, More Latin
The governorship is not a dictatorship," said Gov. Jerry Brown in an interview Tuesday touching on several issues from his first year in office. (Photo: KQED/John Myers)Governor Jerry Brown may be...
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Speaker Perez: Fix Water Bond. And More.
"There are superfluous projects that are included in that water bond," says Assembly Speaker John Perez. (File Photo: Getty/Justin Sullivan)As the Legislature returns to Sacramento, the leader of the...
View ArticlePodcast: Show Your Cards
At some point in most poker games, you've got to lay down your cards and see who wins. This week, we saw a few of the cards floating around the 2012 election cycle when it comes to campaign cash. But...
View ArticlePodcast: America's Finest Podcast
Okay, maybe that's an overstatement. But as California Democrats flock to the sunny environs of San Diego for their annual convention, it was hard to resist a borrowing of the city's famous moniker....
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The Costs of Brown's Pension Plan... In Money and Politics
Brown's pension plan is the Capitol's hot potato. (Photo: Getty/Max Whittaker)For weeks, the conventional wisdom around the Capitol has been that Governor Jerry Brown's proposal to create a hybrid...
View ArticlePodcast: Retirement, Realignment, Republicans
No word seems to dominate the political lexicon these days more than "optics," the acknowledgement that how something looks can sometimes be more important than what it really turns out to be. This...
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