Located in northeast California, LCC is an essential part of Lassen County’s education system. Unfortunately, I remember one issue after another cropping up over the last 8 years or so. At the request of the College’s President, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges sent out its Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team [...]
As if California public employee pensions are not having enough problems along comes a story from the New York Post A FUND FOR FRIENDS (requires log-in) – via Power Line CALPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System) is seen as a leader in corporate reform. With the dollars available for investment, CALPERS has the ability to [...]
On January 28, the Washington Post ran an editorial Mr. Abramoff’s Meetings, Again that may cause the Dems a problem. As we know, Senator Reid has said that Dems have not received any money from Abramoff but that did receive funds from his clients. Lobbying is about gaining access, legislation and votes. This is usually [...]
The group sent out “Pink Slips”in their effort to affect a change in leadership in Sutter County. The “Pink Slips” contained the following examples of problems in the government:
It sure looks like the Sutter County CAO has been left behind in the citizen input arena.
Government apparently is a laggard in innovation. While major corporations like IBM and Verizon are moving toward defined contribution or 401 (k) retirement programs, California governments are increasing pension benefits without really looking at the pit falls.
On January 23rd I posted No Citizen Input Required In that post I noted a statement made by Sutter County CAO Combs who essentially said that the Supervisors are elected to represent the Citizens and that input through Citizen panels was unnecessary. In the January 26 Community section of the Appeal-Democrat we find a differing [...]
Senator Harry Reid’s blog GIVE EM HELL HARRY has a post “The Real State of Our Union†that has a few errors in it. We have the White House, where an employee has been indicted for the first time in 135 years. Does he forget the WH travel office scandal of the Clinton era? And [...]
Today’s editorial “Senators in Need of a Spine†provides us with the wayward definition. Judge Samuel Alito Jr., whose entire history suggests that he holds extreme views about the expansive powers of the presidency and the limited role of Congress, will almost certainly be a Supreme Court justice soon. His elevation will come courtesy of [...]
A simple party-line vote. Remove the cameras and this would have taken only a few minutes.
