by Chris Prevatt ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED on PublicCEO.com Last week, the OC Weekly's R. Scott Moxley wrote about the roaring debate over public employee pensions in "Death and Taxes."While I appreciate h ...

For those who do not believe that pension reform is quickly becoming inevitable, the proposal by Democratic Governor Candidate Jerry Brown probably makes it exactly that.  And while his opponent Meg W ...

On Friday a Sacramento County Superior Court Judge denied Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's request to pay state employees minimum wage.  Judge instead is asking for a full hearing in August, which mea ...

The 3rd District Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a nearly year-and-a-half old ruling that would allow the Governor to order state  workers' pay reduced to minimum wage until a new budget can be sign ...

Controller John Chiang Refuses to Implement Pending Court Ruling on Legality - In a move that will have stark implications for the city of Davis if it gets enacted Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has o ...

One of the key differences that people need to understand is that the composition of the state budget is very different from the local budget.  Locally, employees make up over 70% of the city's costs. ...

According to the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) report that we released this year, showing state spending at a record low while the recession is the primary cause of California's Budget deficit.  ...

Given the state of California's economy and cutbacks to education, perhaps it is not surprising that several different groups are threatening to sue.  On Thursday a lawsuit was filed in Alameda County ...

Just about everyone understands that there is a problem with the structure of the current pension system in California right now.  It is a problem that was brought to the fore by the recent economic a ...