• May 02 Should U.S. fear austerity? Marketplace Europe's austerity economics is plunging the continent into recession. But the U.S. isn't far behind.
• Apr 28 How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes New York Times Apple serves as a window on how technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age and ill suited to today’s digital economy.
• Apr 25 Nurses union puts politics ahead of health The Sacramento Bee State Senator Lois Wolk wants to encourage - not require - health care workers to get annual flu vaccinations if they come into contact with patients in hospitals or nursing homes.
• Apr 25 Press Release: CalPERS Releases First-Ever Report on Sustainable Investing CalPERS CalPERS announced today it has released its first-ever report chronicling the pension fund’s efforts on sustainable investing at the CERES innovation and sustainability conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Apr 25 Legislature can't shelve pension reform The Sacramento Bee The chairman of the Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee insisted this week that pension reform is not dead.

• Apr 25 Dianne Feinstein moves bill to increase California water deliveries, dams The Sacramento Bee The Interior Department would prepare new plans to boost water deliveries and storage in California's Central Valley under a funding bill approved by a key Senate panel Tuesday.
• Apr 25 Sacramento child abuse investigator target of state foster-care probe The Sacramento Bee Sacramento County's Child Protective Services hired Blancho Brumfield four months after the Department of Social Services began its investigation into abuse allegations at her foster home in May 2004.
• Apr 11 6th District Court of Appeal Issues Unanimous Ruling Stating San Jose's Pension Ballot Measure is "Impermissibly Partisan and Misleading" Market Watch Late yesterday, the California 6th District Court of Appeals agreed with city workers that the ballot title and question drafted by Mayor Reed and his Council allies was "partisan and prejudicial."
• Apr 11 Court rules San Jose pension ballot wording unlawful San Jose Mercury News An appellate court agreed with San Jose employees' Tuesday that the city's controversial June pension measure was unlawfully worded to sway voter support.
• Apr 10 SJ Workers Win Latest Budget Reform Battle NBC Bay Area An update to the controversial pension reform ballot measure in San Jose.

• Apr 03 Obama, the left take on Supreme Court Politico President Barack Obama has joined a growing number of Democratic lawmakers and progressive activists who are warning the Supreme Court on the health care law.
• Apr 02 Democratic pension plan for all is good opportunity, even for GOP NBC San Diego The legislation represents an opportunity that should be embraced by everyone, from conservative critics of pensions to liberals determined to preserve retirement security.
• Apr 02 Creative solutions keep some state parks open Bay Citizen The state parks closure cloud still looms, big and black. But dozens of small victories and individual acts of courage are adding a silver lining.
• Apr 02 California's water supplies below average despite March storms Sacramento Bee A wet March boosted California's water supply, but it wasn't enough to make up for a dry December and January.
• Apr 02 Budget cuts hit TB clinics at the border HealthyCal.org Even though many Californians think of tuberculosis as a foreign problem, experts say the cough and sneeze-surfing bacteria remains a risk in the state.

• Apr 02 Snapshot: CSU has lost $1 billion in state funding in 4 years; tuition doubled KPCC LA The system has tried to compensate for the loss by nearly doubling tuition, bringing it up from the $2,772 per year for a full-time undergraduate in 2007-8 to $5,472 in 2011-12.
• Apr 02 State schools chief calls for Cal State salary freeze LA Times Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson called on California State University to freeze compensation for top executives as it seeks to replace presidents at several campuses.
• Apr 02 High speed rail's new math: $30 billion less for a train to L.A. The Orange County Register The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Monday unveiled a new business plan slashing $30 billion from the price tag for connecting Anaheim and San Francisco.
• Mar 30 How Stockton, California went broke in plain sight Wall Street Journal An inland seaport in California's Central Valley, Stockton exemplifies the fiscal hole that many municipalities have dug for their taxpayers.
• Mar 21 Health reform enters 2nd year amid broad changes, challenges California Watch As the second anniversary of the health care reform law approaches, California health advocates hailed the changes that have been made and those on the horizon.

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