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California’s 56 bar pilots provide a vital service, boarding commercial ships as they approach a buoy west of the Golden Gate Bridge and guiding them through dicey Bay Area waters. A giant sandbar in the bay gives bar pilots their name and helps make the zone one of the most treacherous ports... + read more

California's Emergency Management Agency is finally distributing federal stimulus funds, but the agency needs to monitor spending closely to use all the money by its 2013 deadline, the state auditor said in a report [PDF] issued yesterday. The outlook for spending the $136 million is more... + read more

California’s $43 billion high speed rail project is so fraught with problems that the Legislature should gear back on spending and turn the effort over to Caltrans, the Legislative Analyst’s Office says in a report [PDF] released today. The Legislature faces “challenging... + read more

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman wants to chop the state's workforce by 40,000 employees, a pledge she made again this weekend at the state GOP convention. But does the nation-state of California really have such a bloated government?  Not according to the Center... + read more