About "Prop 32 as Conservative Attack on Unions"

In the LA Times, I have not read so soundless and unsound a hit piece as "Proposition 32: A fraud to end all frauds": http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/19/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120819 The legal fraud of public sector unions forcing their employees to...

On the Manhattan Beach District/Union Impasse

For the Manhattan Beach teacher/union impasse, the following proposals will spread the responsibility and enhance respect for all parties: Retract all pay increases for every administrator in the district office.  How hard can it be to serve as a superintendent...

Sacramento Starts — Prop 32 Will Finish

The California state legislature has initiated pension reform. Like Governor Brown, I am displeased that the legislature failed to pass budget reform to curtail health care costs. Still the public sector unions do not negotiate with the taxpayers for pay raises. They...

Sacramento Steps Up on Pension Reform

http://news.yahoo.com/calif-legislature-oks-pension-changes-232256366–finance.html The California state legislature has taken some much needed steps to reform pension abuse. Among the reforms passed by the Senate and the Assembly: 1. Increase the retirement age...

Buchanan's Pessimism

Columnist Pat Buchanan is at it again with his culture-war pessimism, this time hitting on the unlikely success of an economic resurgence from the Romney-Ryan ticket. In his latest piece, "The 'Larger Purpose' of the Romney-Ryan ticket, the national...