aggregated from: Orange Punch

How did government get so out of whack compared to the private lives it was intended to serve? The servants are now the masters, dictating to the private sector what it may and may not do. In their new position as your bosses, public employees have...

aggregated from: Orange Punch

In their head-to-head debate Monday, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner showed enough differences to give voters a choice. Poizner s positions almost always were to the right of Whitman s, but on one particular issue he not only was to her right, but he...

aggregated from: The Daily Mirror

Story of White Negro Fascinated the World If I sound like a numb, it s because I am. I devoted a pair of articles last week to John Howard Griffin, a man with an engrossing story to tell. An author and a native Texan...

topics: government, taxes

aggregated from: Money & Co.

There was more money in California s piggy bank than officials had expected in February, leading Controller John Chiang to tell The Times in a phone interview that the state is headed on a slightly better path. General fund revenues were $480 milli...

topics: budget, tax, taxes

aggregated from: Money & Co.

Even in an era when we're supposed to be used to huge federal budget deficit numbers, February s was a monster: $221 billion, the largest monthly deficit ever in gross dollars.The figure was disclosed by the Treasury Wednesday in its monthly update o...

topics: budget, taxes

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

Federal agents have arrested a couple that ran an Irvine investment firm, saying they were the architects of a Ponzi scheme that cheated some 60 Korean American investors out of $8 million.Euirang Hwang, 36, chairman of Pinupitu Inc., and his girlfri...

topics: business, harbor-city, investment, orange-county, real-estate

aggregated from: The Daily Mirror

Alarmed Officials Often Alarming In case you haven t noticed, all public officials worth their salt have, for years, been opposed to traffic accidents. They re against drunk drivers, speeders, reckless drivers -- any individual...

topics: elected, oc, tax, taxes

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted to cut business taxes for Internet-based firms that had been socked with a mammoth increase last year after the city changed their tax rate from the lowest to the highest.The council unanimously approved t...

topics: budget, burbank, business, city-council, culver-city

aggregated from: Orange Punch

Former Assembly Speaker Karen Bass left a gift behind when she left her post last week 10 percent raises for 20 staffers, along with promotions.Considering the state faces a $20 billion budget deficit, do you find Bass generousity too much, too li...

aggregated from: LAist

Assembly Districts in the Los Angles region Map via the California Voter Foundation Would you like to redraw the political district lines of California's state legislature? How about the lines for the Board of Equalization, which administers so...

topics: democrats, political, republicans, taxes