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Daily Report: Money and Politics

Counties try - and fail - to keep pension payouts secret

July 15, 2010, 12:05 AM
To conceal the fearsome prospective impact of California’s pension bomb from the taxpayers, bureaucrats sometimes play hide the ball. When they do, it’s up to open-government advocates to drag them into court and make them do the right thing. That was the dynamic recently in... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Q & A: Lance Williams on the Treasure Island power crew

July 9, 2010, 12:43 PM
California Watch senior reporter Lance Williams hosted a live video chat Thursday, answering reader questions about his investigative story on unsupervised San Francisco city workers accused of cheating taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you missed the chat, you can catch up... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Judge sentences disability insurance worker for processing fake claims

July 9, 2010, 12:05 AM
A former California Employment Development Department (EDD) employee was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and ordered by a judge to pay $100,000 in restitution after she pleaded guilty to mail fraud. Prosecutors said Audrey Renee Bell, of Pacoima, Calif., used her title as a... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

In new contracts, state ignores unused vacation pileup

July 8, 2010, 12:05 AM
Tentative agreements reached last month with four different state employee unions show no change in the way state officials propose to deal with accrued vacation time – a burden that, as California Watch and others have reported, could cost the state billions in coming years. Negotiators... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Tracking the Bay Area's highest paid public employees

May 26, 2010, 12:11 AM
Doctors, by a wide margin, and then cops. Those are the highest paid employees of local public agencies in the Bay Area, according to a survey and accompanying searchable database compiled by reporters at the Bay Area Newspaper Group.  The highest paid of all was Nancy Farber,... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

With primary looming, most candidates duck the pension crisis

May 24, 2010, 12:08 AM
The California primary is little more than two weeks away, and the timer on the public pension time bomb continues to tick. The unfunded liability on California state pensions is perhaps half a trillion dollars, as a Stanford University study directed by former lawmaker Joe Nation had it; or... + read more
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