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Live Updates From The Milken Global Conference 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 05.01.2012

Monday marks the first morning of the 15th annual Milken Conference, a four-day long event hosted by the Milken Institute at the Beverly Hilton Hotel....

California City Faces Extensive Financial Scrutiny

Hercules, CA Patch | Bob Porterfield | Posted 10.18.2011

Saying he had “serious concerns about the reliability and accuracy” of information in financial reports issued by the city and its redevelopment a...

John Chiang Slams SCAN Health Plan For 'Fleecing' CA

| Christina Jewett | Posted 10.17.2011

Story courtesy of California Watch By Christina Jewett A Southern California health plan that state Controller John Chiang said “fleeced the sta...

Audit Finds CA Prisons Wasted, Abused Millions Of Dollars

| Matt Drange | Posted 09.20.2011

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Matt Drange The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation lacks adequate...

Friday Talking Points -- Excerpting Obama's Press Conference

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.31.2011

Chris Weigant

An important debate flared this week -- one in which sides were chosen, positions staked out, and invective hurled. I will let that sentence stand in...

No Budget? No Paycheck!

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.29.2011

Chris Weigant

Without getting too far into the weeds of the California budget process, here's what just happened.

California Controller John Chiang's Unlikely Turn In The Spotlight

latimes.com | Shane Goldmacher and Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times | Posted 08.24.2011

Reporting from Sacramento -- As a high school kid in Illinois, John Chiang ran for student council on a populist platform: ridding the lunchroom jukeb...

Controller Halts Pay For California Lawmakers

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 08.21.2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's controller took the rare step Tuesday of halting paychecks for all 120 state lawmakers after he determined the...

State Controller: Lawmakers To Lose Pay If Budget Not Passed By June 15

latimes.com | Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times | Posted 08.03.2011

Reporting from Sacramento -- California lawmakers will start losing their pay in two weeks if they don't complete a balanced budget, state Controller ...

Lucy Blodgett

The Milken Conference 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 07.02.2011

Monday marked the first morning of the 2011 Milken Conference, a four-day long event hosted by the Milken Institute at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Thou...

Discovered: Millions In Interest-Free Loans For State Employees

Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.20.2011

State agencies have handed out millions of dollars in interest-free salary and travel advances to state employees without collecting repayment, accord...

State controller John Chiang Releases New Round Of Public Sector Salaries To Public

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

State Controller John Chiang has released a new round of compensation figures for public sector employees, including a Bay Area hospital executive who...

Jerry Brown Freezes Government Hires

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 05.25.2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday ordered a state government hiring freeze amid California's $26.6 billion fiscal crisis, hours a...

Fight Over Redevelopment Funds Heats Up As Controller Announces Audits

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Turning up the heat on cities and counties in California, state Controller John Chiang announced Monday that his office will scour the books of 18 red...

600,000 Local Government Salaries Posted Online

Posted 05.25.2011

This story comes courtesy of California Watch By Chase Davis State Controller John Chiang today made good on a promise to post an online database of...

Details Emerge On No-Tax California Budget Pact

AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After a record-long impasse, California legislators are set to vote this week on a no-new-taxes budget that relies on a com...

Schwarzenegger Sues Chiang In Minimum Wage Legal Battle

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 05.25.2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fresh off a major legal victory, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration on Tuesday filed another lawsuit against the s...

State To Require All Cities Disclose Payrolls For Elected Officials

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's controller is ordering all cities and counties to start reporting the salaries of elected officials and public...

Class Warfare Heats Up in California

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Joseph A. Palermo

No California governor, not Ronald Reagan, not George Deukmejian, not Pete Wilson, has so bludgeoned the state's employees to the extent Arnold Schwarzenegger has.

Celebrity Tax Cheats: California Releases A List

LA Times | Patrick McGreevy | Posted 05.25.2011

Tapping into the fear of public humiliation to get Californians to pay up on delinquent state income taxes, the state has released a list of Californi...