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CALIFORNIA: Special Investigative Reports

SAC BEE: Day 47, and where were your legislators?

by Scott W. Graves – 8/17/2010 – 0 comments

On Monday, California's Assembly busied itself with an array of pressing matters, including resoundingly embracing a resolution to name a freeway interchange after a San Jose city councilman. More than a fourth of the state's legislators, unconcerned about the lack of a budget, are convening fundraisers at Chops, Spataro, Frank Fat's, Pyramid Ale House, the Firehouse and other hangouts this week in hopes of enhancing their personal campaign budgets.

California’s High-Speed Rail Project: A Model of Government Waste and Abuse

by contributor – 7/13/2010 – 0 comments

If you were looking to take some easy shots at government waste and abuse, you’d have a hard time topping California State Auditor Elaine M. Howle’s recent assessment of the Golden State’s 14-year-old high-speed rail project.

Another Economic Dip Coming

by Tuitive Developer – 7/5/2010 – 0 comments

Even when times were good and the tax money was rolling in, as during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s or the real estate-boom of the mid-2000s, instead of saving some money for use during a recession, virtually all the surplus tax money collected was spent on increasing the budgets of state agencies and pension spiking. No “rainy day” fund ever was funded.

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2009 Assembly Bill 466 - Santa Clara Valley Water District

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2009 Assembly Bill 474 - Contractural assessments: water efficiency improvements

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