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What We Cannot Influence (4/16/2022)
How To Play Defense (4/9/2022)
Another Retroactive Pension Increase (4/6/2022)
Tax Increases (4/2/2022)
Stop Sacrificing Students To OPEB (3/19/2022)
Mental Health and Homelessness (3/15/2022)
Updated Tally: 2,115 Bills (2/26/2022)
Endorsing Candidates (2/23/2022)
Manufactured Medical Shortages (2/23/2022)
Sustaining Political Power (2/16/2022)
Burying The Lede (2/6/2022)
Manichean Mischief (1/29/2022)
Mispriced Political Security (1/23/2022)
Shocking Increase In Corrections Salary Spending (1/19/2022)
AB 1400 (1/18/2022)
Our View Of Governor’s Proposed 2022-23 Budget (1/13/2022)
Governor’s Proposed Budget (1/9/2022)
GFC’s 2022 Agenda (1/7/2022)
Flexing Our Political Muscle In 2022 (12/30/2021)
A Medicare Approach For CA Schools (12/27/2021)
Assembly and Senate 2022-23 Budget Blueprints (12/20/2021)
Private Equity Executive Meets Public Reality (12/14/2021)
SFUSD Ignores Millions In Federal Funds (12/9/2021)
Stress Testing In Sacramento (12/5/2021)
Political Finance (11/30/2021)
LAO’s Impossible Task (11/28/2021)
“Low Cost Collective Action, Persistently Applied” (11/24/2021)
CA Needs $100 Billion In Reserves (11/19/2021)
Lies And Leverage In La Habra (11/16/2021)
Covered California Stands Out Again (11/14/2021)
Democracy In California (11/7/2021)
Scapegoating And Suppression At SFUSD (11/5/2021)
GFC Is Relentless (10/30/2021)
Undemocratic Nondisclosure In California (10/30/2021)
Corporate Donors To California Lawmakers (10/25/2021)
Potent Political Philanthropy (10/24/2021)
Towards Universal Coverage In California (10/18/2021)
Summing Up California (10/17/2021)
Fixing California’s Unemployment Problem (10/13/2021)
Profile Of A Chapter Chair (10/11/2021)
GFC’s Army (10/7/2021)
CA Legislators Are Underpaid (10/7/2021)
CA Donation Conflicts Must End (10/3/2021)
22 Years Ago Today (9/28/2021)
Thank You, CA DMV (9/25/2021)
If You Thought The Recall Was Expensive . . . (9/18/2021)
Code Repair In California (9/17/2021)
Where Your CA Estimated Tax Payments Are Going (9/15/2021)
When Good Legislators Do Bad Things (9/13/2021)
In Ventura’s Own Words (9/12/2021)
Success (9/8/2021)
Bad Reporting By LA Times (9/7/2021)
We Will Never Withdraw From Sacramento (8/31/2021)
Recall Election (8/21/2021)
Back To School (8/16/2021)
1968 (8/14/2021)
1977 (8/8/2021)
Service, Please? (8/2/2021)
Ballot Measures, Recalls and Permanent PACs (7/29/2021)
POBs = Wall Street Snake Oil (7/27/2021)
Punching Their Weight (7/25/2021)
Supplemental Pension Payments (7/21/2021)
Today Is Day 1 (7/18/2021)
A Tale of Two Lawsuits (7/15/2021)
Collective Bargaining For CA Public Employees (7/13/2021)
Whitewash In San Jose (7/9/2021)
POBs = Wall Street Deceptions (7/7/2021)
Open For Business! (7/7/2021)
Lawmakers, Don’t Capitulate to Unit 6 Again (6/27/2021)
California’s Budget Deal (6/27/2021)
27 Legislators Channel Wayne Morse (6/10/2021)
California’s K-12 schools are being set up for a fall of epic proportions (6/9/2021)
Partying Even Harder Than 1999 (6/6/2021)
CA is a STATE, not a SPAC (6/3/2021)
Attention Spans (6/1/2021)
Can’t Get No Satisfaction (5/26/2021)
LAO Gets It Partly Right (5/24/2021)
38 or 76 Angels on CA’s Pin? (5/20/2021)
CA’s Revenue Forecasts (5/18/2021)
Our View Of The May Revision to the Governor’s 2021-22 Budget (5/16/2021)
The Wolf At San Jose’s Door (5/11/2021)
Our Non-Finite War (5/9/2021)
CalPERS’s Glass House (5/1/2021)
Next Time: REAL Campaign Finance Reform (4/30/2021)
DOF’s March Finance Bulletin (4/28/2021)
A Wall Or A Frog? (4/27/2021)
Save Our Schools (4/23/2021)
Money Isn’t Everything (4/22/2021)
AG’s Should Walk Their Talk (4/21/2021)
Punch Your Weight! (4/20/2021)
Stop Blaming Governor Newsom (4/18/2021)
Budget Amnesia In Sacramento (4/17/2021)
PECG Takes Advantage Of The Recall (4/16/2021)
Pension Reform (4/14/2021)
Covering CA’s Undocumented (4/14/2021)
How To Deliver For Californians (4/12/2021)
Voter Rights in CA (4/10/2021)
No Donations, No Service (4/8/2021)
CA’s Dark Money Apparatus (4/6/2021)
GFC’s 10th Anniversary (4/6/2021)
What Would MLK Say About A California… (4/4/2021)
What Would Cesar Chavez Say (4/1/2021)
No Justice For Non-Donors (4/1/2021)
Derigging California (3/31/2021)
It’s Not Easy Being A Legislator, Part II (3/28/2021)
Consumers Of CA Government Services Aren’t Vassals (3/27/2021)
A Disappointing Choice For Attorney General (3/25/2021)
The Public Employee Supremacy Act of 2021 (3/23/2021)
CA Must End This Sorry Practice (3/21/2021)
CA’s 1 Percent (3/19/2021)
Hoover Institution: Bipartisan Opportunism Is to Blame for California’s High Tax Rate (3/13/2021)
California and Mississippi Have This In Common (3/10/2021)
The Universal Coverage Knowledge Gap (2/23/2021)
Beating CA’s Nomenklatura (2/12/2021)
Underfunded Kids, Overinsured Retirees (2/11/2021)
CA’s Next AG (2/6/2021)
Tax Increase Proposals (2/5/2021)
San Diego’s Budget Deficit (2/5/2021)
How Oakland Can Help Itself (2/1/2021)
There’s No Need To Cut Oakland Police! (1/31/2021)
Legislators Should Test Drive CoveredCA (1/30/2021)
The CA Giveaway: Part II (1/28/2021)
CA Dems Dangerously Channel Reagan (1/26/2021)
CA’s $200B Conflict of Interest (1/26/2021)
Medicare Not Enough For Retired CA Employees (1/26/2021)
Willpower (1/18/2021)
Retiree Health Subsidies Explained (1/16/2021)
Donor Rejection (1/15/2021)
Bad Reporting By SF Chronicle (1/12/2021)
Governor’s Proposed 2021-22 Budget (1/10/2021)
The Excellence Of Covered California (1/7/2021)
Fixing CA’s Ugliest Secret (1/4/2021)
There’s No ROI Like ROPS (1/3/2021)
$7,152,548 (12/31/2020)
CA Must End This Giveaway In 2021 (12/29/2020)
A Challenge To CA Journalists (12/27/2020)
$1.7 Billion Of Gold In UC’s Ivory Tower (12/27/2020)
Value Investing In Politics (12/24/2020)
Ending CA’s Love Affair With Public Safety Unions (12/22/2020)
How CA Could Save ~$10 Billion A Year (12/22/2020)
Taxes And Persistence (12/19/2020)
California’s COVID-Resistant Tax Revenues (12/18/2020)
Breed And Garcetti Must Stand Up To Police Unions (12/16/2020)
David Chiu and Luz Rivas (12/14/2020)
Political Value Investing By Tesla (12/10/2020)
A Tax Increase A Day (12/8/2020)
Times-a-Changin’ In Sacramento (12/7/2020)
LA Needn’t Sacrifice Public Safety (12/5/2020)
Help Wanted (12/4/2020)
POBs = Bankers As Pushers (12/3/2020)
Prison Guard Reform In California (12/2/2020)
More Profligacy At BART (11/29/2020)
Liberating Occupied California (11/25/2020)
Crush The Bill, Not The Legislator (11/24/2020)
Liberation Funding At Work (11/22/2020)
A Tale Of Two Pandemics In California — Part III (11/21/2020)
California’s COVID-Resistant Tax Revenues (11/17/2020)
Finding Money For Chesa Boudin (11/16/2020)
Direct-To-Citizen Information (11/13/2020)
LA Times Can Do Better (11/11/2020)
A Tale of Two Pandemics in California — Part II (11/11/2020)
A Tale of Two Pandemics in California (11/8/2020)
NYT Can Do Better (11/7/2020)
488 Days (10/30/2020)
How LA Could Save $398 Million (10/24/2020)
California’s Tax Revenues (10/22/2020)
Beware Banks Bearing Bonds (10/22/2020)
San Francisco Retirement Spending (10/18/2020)
Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You . . . (10/14/2020)
How To Liberate Congress (10/13/2020)
Accurate Reporting of CA Tax Receipts (10/5/2020)
Silos R Us (9/28/2020)
The Wizards of Sacramento (8/17/2020)
California Taxin’ (8/14/2020)
Public v. Private Enterprise (8/13/2020)
CalPERS Agonistes (8/8/2020)
City Journal: Plug the Golden State’s Leaks (8/1/2020)
California Must Do Better (7/13/2020)
The 7 Percent Non-Solution (7/9/2020)
How To Help Poor And Minority Students In Sacramento (7/3/2020)
CA Passes A Disappointing Budget (6/30/2020)
Why Kamala Harris Took So Long (6/30/2020)
The Hill: Coronavirus aid should go directly to the people (6/29/2020)
CA Unemployment Claims Update (6/26/2020)
Thank You, Zeke Emanuel (6/25/2020)
California’s Side Letters With CCPOA and SEIU (6/24/2020)
On Persistence (6/23/2020)
Correction: QUINTUPLE Leverage At CalPERS (6/23/2020)
Quadruple Leverage At CalPERS (6/21/2020)
City Journal: California’s Debt Folly (6/18/2020)
More Magical Thinking At CalPERS (6/16/2020)
On Ds, Rs, and NPPs in California (6/16/2020)
In Support Of More California Prison Reform (6/16/2020)
How Kamala Harris Could Walk Her Talk (6/16/2020)
How Political Hypocrisy Is Financed In California (6/14/2020)
Kamala Harris Could Help Save California Programs From Budget Cuts (6/14/2020)
A Profile In Hypocrisy (6/14/2020)
A Plan To Save San Francisco $120 Million Per Year And Eliminate $3 Billion of Debt (6/11/2020)
CA Must Speed Up Unemployment Claims Processing (6/7/2020)
CA Unemployment Benefits Update (6/4/2020)
CalMatters: California should terminate unnecessary insurance subsidies for retired state workers (6/3/2020)
How San Francisco Schools Can Raise Teacher Salaries (6/3/2020)
SacCity Unified Need Not Lay Off Teachers (5/30/2020)
Memo To CA State Legislators: Cost Savings From OPEB Reform In California (5/28/2020)
An Urgent Memo To CA State Legislators (5/27/2020)
California Can Fix Its Unemployment Processing (5/23/2020)
San Francisco’s Incredible OPEB Spending (5/22/2020)
California Budget Do’s And Don’ts (5/22/2020)
How To Free California’s Hostages (5/20/2020)
California’s Request For Federal Funds (5/18/2020)
California Isn’t Colorado (5/15/2020)
District Responses to COVID-19 School Closures (5/15/2020)
Legal and Moral Grounds For Pension And OPEB Changes In California (5/11/2020)
Food For Thought (5/11/2020)
How The University of California Can Save $1 Billion (4/30/2020)
California School Finances (4/30/2020)
No Furloughs Before Reforms (4/21/2020)
LBJ vs. Bernie Sanders (3/6/2020)
Disinformation In Sacramento (2/9/2020)
Is SFUSD Scapegoating Special Education? (1/23/2020)
SFUSD’s Self-Inflicted Wound (1/17/2020)
Governor Newsom’s Proposed 2020–21 Budget (1/13/2020)
A Big Week For California (1/7/2020)
Un-Total Recall (12/2/2019)
Do Your Own Digging (11/27/2019)
Returns On Political Spending (11/21/2019)
Emmanuel Saez Must Not Know Politics (11/15/2019)
California’s Berlin Wall (11/9/2019)
Making California Affordable (11/5/2019)
Political Asymmetries (11/1/2019)
POP’s, GEOP’s and MacGuffins (10/16/2019)
California’s Conflict-Of-Interest Bonds (10/7/2019)
Philanthropy For California’s Public Schools (9/16/2019)
The Budget Is The Thing (8/29/2019)
California Can Reform K–12 And Medi-Cal, Or Face A Future Of Perpetual Tax Hikes (8/28/2019)
It’s time for truth in state and local government finances (8/28/2019)
Potemkin Pension Accounting In California (8/23/2019)
Sacramento’s Shades of Socialism (7/13/2019)
Free CA’s NPs! (7/4/2019)
Assessing Candidates For President (6/28/2019)
Willie Sutton, Milton Friedman and California’s Budget (6/25/2019)
California’s 2019–20 State Budget (6/14/2019)
California’s Per-Pupil Spending (6/13/2019)
Week Three: New Haven Unified Strike (6/4/2019)
All Quiet In Sacramento (5/31/2019)
For Whom Senate Bill 29 Tolls (5/27/2019)
Scapegoating In Sacramento (5/19/2019)
Governor Newsom’s Revised Budget Proposal (5/16/2019)
Fear The Wheelbarrow! (5/13/2019)
An Open Letter To California’s Senate Education Committee (4/20/2019)
Bugs In California’s K-12 System (4/3/2019)
“You Have To See Sisyphus As A Happy Man.” (4/2/2019)
Pusillanimous In Sacramento (3/18/2019)
Some Light At The End Of The Pension Reform Tunnel (3/7/2019)
California’s Tax Increases Haven’t Translated Into Service Increases (2/27/2019)
MacGuffins, Innumeracy And Politics (2/25/2019)
From Whom The Money Flows (2/24/2019)
Rationalizing California’s Corrections Compensation (2/5/2019)
LAUSD’s Temporary Settlement (1/26/2019)
Accretion of Discount (1/16/2019)
SF Chronicle: California should transition retired public employees to Covered California (1/15/2019)
Sacramento’s Silliest Subsidy (1/7/2019)
Facts Matter: Spending Per California Student (12/28/2018)
One Last Task For Jerry Brown (12/22/2018)
Kafka In LA (12/20/2018)
LAUSD Revenues = $298,000 Per Teacher (12/12/2018)
DIY! (12/2/2018)
UPDATE: Reform Medi-Cal To Reduce Poverty (11/25/2018)
California’s Incredible Prison Spending (10/21/2018)
$200 Billion (10/4/2018)
Federal Reserve Tells A Big Truth (9/29/2018)
Time For “Honest Leadership,” Rahm (8/18/2018)
The Trump Distraction (8/11/2018)
Net Per-Pupil Spending in California (7/30/2018)
CalSTRS’s Underperformance (7/27/2018)
Verdict On Prop 30 Tax Increase — Part II (7/24/2018)
More Pension Math: Investment Earnings (7/23/2018)
An Open Letter To CA Legislators (7/22/2018)
Jerry Brown Goes To Court For Kids (7/20/2018)
Disrupt CA’s State-Operated Enterprises! (7/18/2018)
The Verdict On Prop 30 — Part I (7/17/2018)
Reforming California Health Care (7/10/2018)
Good News In A San Francisco School (7/6/2018)
Thank You, CA Assembly Democrats! (7/5/2018)
Reducing OPEB Debt In California (7/2/2018)
Government Debt Growth In California (6/27/2018)
Bad Philanthropy (6/27/2018)
One Small Step By Palo Alto (6/25/2018)
Oppressing Oakland’s Schoolchildren (6/25/2018)
CA To Spend $16,000 Per Pupil in 2018–19 (6/15/2018)
The Liberation of California’s Legislature (6/14/2018)
Burying The Lede In California (6/9/2018)
The Mystery of Jerry Brown And California’s Prison Employees (6/9/2018)
Dan Balz Doesn’t Know California’s Legislature (6/9/2018)
Reject Sectarianism (6/4/2018)
Licensing Reform in California (6/3/2018)
Jerry Brown’s Enlightening Budget (6/2/2018)
A New Assault On the Little Three (6/1/2018)
Governors Are Not CEO’s (6/1/2018)
California Whinin’ (5/31/2018)
Gubernatorial Performance in California (5/31/2018)
Liberate California School Boards (5/30/2018)
How To Get More Money For CA Teachers (5/29/2018)
CTA Seeks Scapegoat (5/28/2018)
Governor Candidates Silent on Medi-Cal (5/27/2018)
How Will CA Governor Candidates Handle Employee Compensation? (5/26/2018)
The ‘Big Three’ killing California’s public services (5/18/2018)
SFUSD Financial Update (4/29/2018)
How To End Educational Oppression in CA (4/26/2018)
The Most Worrisome Report in California (4/23/2018)
Being Fair To CA’s Teachers (4/21/2018)
Fake News From CTA (4/17/2018)
Change in General Fund Share FYE11–17 (4/13/2018)
Billions Being Diverted From CA Teachers (4/9/2018)
California’s Great Diversion (4/7/2018)
California’s Next Tax Increase (4/6/2018)
64 Years After Brown v Board of Education (4/1/2018)
50 Years After East LA Walkouts (3/26/2018)
The Glass House In California’s Capitol (3/23/2018)
Understanding CA’s Health Care System (3/23/2018)
CA Swings And Misses On Healthcare (3/20/2018)
More Pension Math (3/20/2018)
San Francisco Finally Gets An Analyst! (3/18/2018)
California’s Pension Funds Trump Madoff (3/12/2018)
NY Times: Is the Long-Looming Pension Crisis Already Here? (3/9/2018)
Coverup At SFUSD (3/5/2018)
Sunlight Peeks Into Palo Alto (3/4/2018)
Tony Thurmond Hits The Wrong Target (3/1/2018)
Cowardly Resistance In California (2/25/2018)
Sunlight In Palo Alto? (2/21/2018)
Charlie Munger Tells The Truth About Health Care (2/20/2018)
Elites Donate But Masses Pay The Price (2/18/2018)
More Pension Math (2/15/2018)
CALSTRS BITES APPLE! (2/9/2018)
California’s OPEB Crisis (2/7/2018)
Jerry Brown’s Timid Education Agenda (1/29/2018)
California Should Address Licensing Reform – And Stop Adding Violins To The String Section (1/26/2018)
California’s Own Shutdown (1/20/2018)
Governor Brown Is 100 Percent Correct (1/18/2018)
CA Legislators Must Walk MLK Day Talk (1/15/2018)
Shades of Political Deception (1/7/2018)
A Pro-Citizen 2018 Agenda For California (1/2/2018)
Tithing To California’s Democracy (12/30/2017)
Immorality in California Politics (12/26/2017)
CA’s Next Budget Will Not Tell The Truth (12/22/2017)
More Pension Math (12/19/2017)
Misunderstanding Citizens United in CA (12/19/2017)
Courage: The Most Overused Word In Politics (12/16/2017)
Jerry Brown Steps Up For Citizens (11/28/2017)
Future Firefighters Beware! (11/10/2017)
Hickenlooper Channels Raimondo (11/8/2017)
You Have More Power Than Facebook (11/5/2017)
A Tale Of Two Public Pension Plans (11/2/2017)
Dark Money Didn’t Cause This CA Problem (10/31/2017)
Ugly Political Hypocrisy In California (10/28/2017)
California Gubernatorial Debate Left Big Stone Unturned (10/27/2017)
While LA Sleeps (10/22/2017)
CA Can’t Blame Trump For This Problem (10/15/2017)
Now That Drug Cost Increases Must Be Explained in California . . . (10/11/2017)
A Message To California Republicans (10/5/2017)
Next Steps On Healthcare In California (10/2/2017)
For Whom CalPERS’s Funded Status Tolls (9/23/2017)
CA Should Raise Teacher Pay By Reducing Unfunded Retirement Liabilities (9/16/2017)
Political Dissonance in California (9/14/2017)
Pension and Other Retirement Costs Are Crowding Out SF School Teachers (8/22/2017)
Meet The New Boss. Same As The Old Boss. (8/13/2017)
CA Continues To Abandon UC and CSU (8/8/2017)
These California Republicans Should Stop Whining (7/31/2017)
A Teachable Pension Math Moment (7/15/2017)
The Great California Classroom Robbery (7/8/2017)
Pension Deficits Are Not Like Droughts (7/3/2017)
A Sad Day For Truth-Telling In Sacramento (6/23/2017)
Jerry Brown’s Big Skim (6/19/2017)
California Elects Not to Pay Down Pension Debt (6/17/2017)
Shallow Waters (6/10/2017)
SF Chronicle: Proposed state health care plan is a faux single-payer system (6/7/2017)
Unhealthy Legislation in Sacramento (5/31/2017)
The Real Reason Behind The CA Single Payer Proposal (5/24/2017)
California Cover Up (5/19/2017)
Boosting Pension Contributions Is Fine (5/16/2017)
Plus Ça Change in California (5/14/2017)
CDA CMA CNA CHA CTA SEIU CCPOA (5/8/2017)
CA Legislature Must Stop Bullying UC (5/3/2017)
Don’t Blame UC for Establishing a Reserve (4/28/2017)
Healthcare Providers Aren’t Greedier than Uber (4/25/2017)
Dissecting San Jose Unified (4/9/2017)
California’s K-12 Pension Cost Crisis (4/3/2017)
California Needs A Truman Committee (3/31/2017)
California Dodges One Bullet (3/26/2017)
Clearing Up Public Pension Accounting (3/24/2017)
San Francisco Officials Are Chasing Rabbits (3/21/2017)
Clearing Up More Pension Math (3/18/2017)
Political Courage, California Style (3/11/2017)
It’s The Lie That Gets You (3/4/2017)
An Alternative To Alternative News (2/23/2017)
California Starvin’ [Its Universities] (2/6/2017)
UC and CSU Need Help From Legislature (2/3/2017)
How To Differentiate California’s Gubernatorial Candidates (2/2/2017)
California’s Hidden Expenses: Part IV (1/28/2017)
More Alternative Facts From CalSTRS (1/26/2017)
Big Changes In California’s Spending (1/24/2017)
California’s Hidden Expenses: Part III (1/22/2017)
California’s Hidden Expenses: Part II (1/21/2017)
Hidden Expenses In California’s Budget (1/18/2017)
Dissecting California’s Corrections Budget (1/16/2017)
SF Chronicle: The good, the bad and the ugly of Obamacare (1/16/2017)
Exxon, CalPERS and CalSTRS: Partners In Deception (1/11/2017)
For Whom the California Budget Tolls (1/6/2017)
Fix Medi-Cal Or Lose UC and CSU (1/4/2017)
CalPERS Must Stop Spinning, Part II (12/23/2016)
CalPERS Refuses To Bite Bullet (12/17/2016)
Next Generation Is On CalPERS’s Menu (12/16/2016)
Clearing Up Some Pension Math (12/4/2016)
Public Pension Costs: Potential Good News for Californians (11/26/2016)
Time For CalPERS To Lead (11/22/2016)
MCERA: Will CA Supreme Court Justices Be Courageous? (11/16/2016)
Guidelines for Contributors to California Gubernatorial Candidates (11/11/2016)
Defined Benefit Plans Per Se Are Not The Problem (11/4/2016)
Ontario Is A Model For California’s Pension Plans (10/29/2016)
California’s Governors Should Send Their Kids To Public Schools (10/26/2016)
The Ultimate Recipients of California’s State Spending (10/20/2016)
Big Changes in California’s Spending (10/4/2016)
Big Profits From California’s Public Spending (9/8/2016)
Rahm Emanuel Rescues The Truth (8/18/2016)
How Coiled Springs Turned 96% Into 69% (8/18/2016)
Clinton and Trump Have This One Thing In Common (8/11/2016)
California Legislature Picks on UC Again (8/11/2016)
The Crux of the Pension Matter (8/6/2016)
A Most Consequential State Election (8/1/2016)
CalSTRS’s Too-Great Expectations (7/27/2016)
Truth Or Consequences (7/22/2016)
The Consequences of Weak Pension Earnings (7/18/2016)
A Summer Action Plan For America’s Elites (7/7/2016)
A Tale of Two Pension Funds (7/1/2016)
Protecting CA Students From Pension Costs (6/21/2016)
California: High Taxes, Low Services (5/24/2016)
How To Save California’s Public Schools (5/18/2016)
Pension Costs and K-12 Budgets in California (5/18/2016)
How To Save the University of California (5/11/2016)
Prison Guards 3, Parks and Kids 0 (4/30/2016)
Better Disclosure Needed From CalSTRS (4/28/2016)
A Day in the (Financial) Life of the California Democratic Party (4/22/2016)
California Cocktail Party Blues (4/22/2016)
What Accrual Accounting Would Have Exposed, Part II (3/2/2016)
Further to “More Truthiness From CalSTRS’s CEO” (3/2/2016)
What Accrual Accounting Would’ve Exposed (3/2/2016)
More Truthiness From CalSTRS’s CEO (2/8/2016)
Jerry Brown’s Excellent Budget — At Least On a Cash Basis (1/11/2016)
Steep Drop in CalPERS Funded Ratio, 1995–2015 (1/7/2016)
Update: CA’s FY2015 Pension Liability (1/5/2016)
Donors Should Ask Candidates About Vergara and Pensions (12/22/2015)
Flash: California Issues $9 Billion in Debt (12/22/2015)
Before You Contribute To A Candidate… (12/8/2015)
CalPERS Must Stop Spinning (12/1/2015)
CalPERS’s Anemic Private Equity Returns (11/25/2015)
Jerry Brown v. Rob Feckner on Pension Funding: Why It Matters (11/24/2015)
Know Your Candidate, Part II (11/23/2015)
Know Your Candidate! (10/21/2015)
Contra Costa Times: Why Public Services in California Decline Even As Revenues Rise (8/22/2015)
San Francisco Chronicle: A perfect time for the governor to fix California’s accounting (7/21/2015)
A note about public pension fund investment return targets (7/15/2015)
San Diego Union-Tribune: Big money talks in California politics (6/18/2015)
Capitol Weekly: Stock market soars — and so do public pension costs (5/27/2015)
SacBee: Brown must beware the bull market (5/13/2015)
San Jose Mercury News: Governor must get real about $72 billion debt for retirees’ health care costs (2/12/2015)
San Francisco Chronicle: Four shadows fall across California’s budget (1/4/2015)
SacBee: Three fiscal issues the Legislature should address (12/2/2014)
Fox & Hounds: How The Past Can Devour The Future (7/23/2014)
San Francisco Chronicle: Tenure reform should be part of education-code revamp (7/8/2014)
Contra Costa Times: Governors shouldn’t hide costs even when they can (6/9/2014)
San Francisco Chronicle: Tithe to democracy – donate to well-meaning candidates (5/18/2014)
Bloomberg View: How Jerry Brown Hoodwinks Reporters (4/15/2014)
Fox & Hounds: Finding $240 Billion for CalSTRS (3/18/2014)
U-T San Diego: Teachers’ pension crisis: How it happened (3/9/2014)
Bloomberg: California’s $600 Billion Sinkhole (3/3/2014)
Fox & Hounds: Full Explanation Required From CalSTRS’s CEO (2/27/2014)
SJ Mercury News: Pensioners living longer isn’t the only cost crisis cities face (2/21/2014)
SacBee: Memo to Legislature: No time for half measures on CalSTRS (2/20/2014)
SF Chronicle: Playing accounting games puts red-ink budgets in the black (2/9/2014)
Fox & Hounds: As Days Go By: Why Jerry Brown Must Act THIS Year On CalSTRS (1/16/2014)
Bloomberg: Defuse the Bomb That Threatens State Budgets (12/20/2013)
SacBee: CalSTRS Must Be The Legislature’s Top Priority In 2014 (12/19/2013)
Fox & Hounds: Another Smokescreen from CalSTRS’s CEO (12/4/2013)
Fox & Hounds: Deciphering Public Pension Fund Investment Fee Reports (12/4/2013)
Bloomberg: The Health-Care Spoiler in California’s Rosy Budget (11/22/2013)
Ozy: Lessons From 1979 (11/1/2013)
Bloomberg: Public Pension Funds Need to Show the Money (11/1/2013)
Fox & Hounds: What’s Really the Principal Cause of CalSTRS’s Shortfall? (10/30/2013)
Ozy: 1,200 Days to Change America’s Trajectory (10/25/2013)
Bloomberg View: Pension Funds Love Wall Street (10/24/2013)
Huff Post: Climate and Pension Activists Should Unite (10/12/2013)
Ozy: Politicians Need Your Charity (10/2/2013)
Ozy: Why Jon Stewart is Wrong About California (9/16/2013)
San Francisco Chronicle: BART labor talks have many stakeholders (9/16/2013)
Bloomberg View: Traditional Pension Plans Can Still Work. Really. (6/25/2013)
Bloomberg View: California’s Misleading Pension ‘Losses’ (6/17/2013)
The Sacramento Bee Viewpoints: Unexpected state revenue should go to teacher pensions (5/31/2013)
Bloomberg View: Jerry Brown’s Last Chance to Save California (5/20/2013)
Bloomberg View: California’s New Taxes Are Paying for Pensions (3/28/2013)
Bloomberg View: California, A High-Revenue, Low-Services State (2/21/2013)
Hoover Institution: With Retirement Costs Consuming One-Fifth of Discretionary Spending, California Must Reduce Un-Accrued Pension Benefits (8/20/2012)
SIEPR Policy Brief: Report of the State Budget Crisis Task Force: Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come (8/1/2012)
Bloomberg View: Rein in benefits now and tax Californians later (7/9/2012)
California’s bad bet makes JP Morgan’s look minor (6/17/2012)
New California taxes pay for pensions, not schools (4/23/2012)
California must address leaks in budget before raising taxes (3/24/2012)
Why the stock market recovery won’t solve the pension crisis (3/19/2012)
State finance officials should face the truth on pension promises (1/8/2012)
Occupy protesters’ timing is right, focus wrong (10/30/2011)
How about a race to reform state pensions? (10/26/2011)
An open letter from David Crane on the Formation of Govern for California (9/25/2011)
A grand bargain: tax hike, pension fix (9/4/2011)
Catching up hard when pensions are underfunded (7/29/2011)
Key to pension costs is realistic assumptions (6/28/2011)
Setting aside money up front is the key to preventing pension disaster (6/4/2011)
Should public employees have collective bargaining? (2/27/2011)
The real issue for public pensions is disclosure of liability (2/20/2011)
Voters should get a say on state’s biggest expense (2/4/2011)
(Not) Accounting for state governments (1/19/2011)
CalPERS can’t have it both ways with taxpayers’ money (8/16/2010)
Dow 28,000,000: The Unbelievable Expectations of California’s Pension System (5/19/2010)
California’s $500-billion pension time bomb (4/6/2010)
Legislators’ priorities are the ones that deserve questioning (1/21/2010)
Pensions and partying like it’s 1999 (12/15/2009)
Public-private partnership nets seafood and “blue” jobs (4/6/2009)
California: A state growing beyond its infrastructure means (2/24/2008)
Stabilizing California’s Budget (1/21/2008)
California’s Infrastructure Deficit (1/1/2008)
Gov. favors environmental, economic sustainability (12/23/2007)
California’s Sustainability Agenda (12/5/2007)