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Live Updates From The Milken Global Conference 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 05.01.2012

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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....

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California City Faces Extensive Financial Scrutiny

Hercules, CA Patch | Bob Porterfield | Posted 10.18.2011

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

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John Chiang Slams SCAN Health Plan For 'Fleecing' CA

| Christina Jewett | Posted 10.17.2011

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

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Audit Finds CA Prisons Wasted, Abused Millions Of Dollars

| Matt Drange | Posted 09.20.2011

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

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Friday Talking Points -- Excerpting Obama's Press Conference

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.31.2011

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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...

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No Budget? No Paycheck!

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.29.2011

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

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California Controller John Chiang's Unlikely Turn In The Spotlight

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

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

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Controller Halts Pay For California Lawmakers

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 08.21.2011

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

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

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

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

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The Milken Conference 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 07.02.2011

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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...

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Discovered: Millions In Interest-Free Loans For State Employees

Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.20.2011

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

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

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Jerry Brown Freezes Government Hires

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Fight Over Redevelopment Funds Heats Up As Controller Announces Audits

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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600,000 Local Government Salaries Posted Online

Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Details Emerge On No-Tax California Budget Pact

AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Schwarzenegger Sues Chiang In Minimum Wage Legal Battle

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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State To Require All Cities Disclose Payrolls For Elected Officials

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Class Warfare Heats Up in California

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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Celebrity Tax Cheats: California Releases A List

LA Times | Patrick McGreevy | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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