Unbelievable as it may seem, the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), the sixth largest public pension fund in the country, now has a pension shortfall of $56 billion,
Politics has never been considered a business for the faint of heart, but California's Assembly now considers it a life or death matter. The Assembly has decided to
In the last month, federal district courts in Idaho and South Carolina have handed down rulings on Republican party lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of each state’s open primary system.
When Governor Jerry Brown announced with his budget proposal the goal of realigning services from state to local agencies “who have the direct knowledge and interest to ensure that local
With the top two open primary initiative soon to be implemented in the state's first election, the California Republican Party continues to move forward with an effort to
AB 32 is the landmark California bill that mandates greenhouse gas emissions in the state be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. One method it will use is cap-and-
Today, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) will be unveiling the establishment GOP's ten-year plan to make $6 trillion in spending cuts. Critics are already calling the proposal
Not only are there no good options for passing a budget before the money runs out, there aren't even any bad options. As too often happens, negotiations and
Half Moon Bay has joined the growing list of California cities that have abolished their municipal police forces in order to fill gaping budget gaps. On Saturday, the City Council
Last year, we took notice when Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) returned $100,000 of his Congressional office budget to the United States Treasury. CAIVN editor and contributing author Ryan
Michelle Alexander is the author of the bestseller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Speaking at a book event organized last week by the Pasadena
As the country remains highly polarized and chronically dissatisfied with the performance of the two major parties, the internet, and advent of social media in particular, could catalyze the historic
