K. Lloyd Billingsley | Tuesday October 9, 2018 at 9:00 AM PDT
Governor Brown’s record leaves a dismal legacy.
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Tag: Jerry Brown
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Friday September 28, 2018 at 10:35 AM PDT
Senate Bill 1391 would bar the prosecution of juveniles as adults.
Mary Theroux | Wednesday September 19, 2018 at 11:15 AM PDT
Senate Bill 826 serves as yet another example of Government waste an incompetency.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Monday August 20, 2018 at 12:30 PM PDT
Governor Brown’s legacy project will likely spike in cost.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Tuesday May 29, 2018 at 4:00 PM PDT
The surging national economy has given California a budget surplus by some accounts of more than $5 billion, with tax collections up about $3.8 billion above what Governor Jerry Brown anticipated in January. California taxpayers should not expect Brown to return any money to the taxpayers, in the style of governor George Deukmejian, who…
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Lawrence McQuillan | Tuesday June 21, 2016 at 11:02 AM PDT
As part of a year-long national campaign promoting my book California Dreaming: Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis, I’ve been saying that it’s impossible to have both public governance of defined-benefit public pension plans and responsible management of these plans. Politicians face strong perverse incentives to mismanage the plans for their…
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William Shughart | Thursday May 12, 2016 at 12:54 PM PDT
Once again, with Gov. Jerry Brown’s blessing, lawmakers in California have extended the long nose of government further into the private lives of their citizens. The latest intrusion comes from legislation that raises the minimum age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 years old. With record-level support for marijuana…
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Lawrence McQuillan | Thursday July 30, 2015 at 2:48 PM PDT
In an effort to control skyrocketing retirement costs in the massive University of California system, U.C. employees hired after July 1, 2016, will be able to choose a 401(k)-style pension plan, the first time this has been offered. Governor Jerry Brown and U.C. president Janet Napolitano negotiated the agreement, which was enshrined in the…
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Lawrence McQuillan | Wednesday January 14, 2015 at 2:55 PM PST
As a teenager, Jerry Brown left Santa Clara University to attend a Jesuit seminary, intent on becoming a Catholic priest. Moral arguments in the context of public-policy debates have always been important to him. So during his inaugural address on January 5, as he became California’s governor for an historic fourth term, Brown quoted…
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Mary Theroux | Friday October 19, 2012 at 6:27 PM PDT
When the September unemployment figures were announced a month before the presidential election as having miraculously declined to below 8% for the first time since the current administration started, more than a few speculated that there may have been some book-cooking in the back room. In response, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, said she was…
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