She said it with what sounded like a sigh of resignation: Laura Chick is finally getting a BlackBerry.
Maybe that's one way of explaining how much things are changing for the former Los Angeles city controller, who's ending her first week in Sacramento as the state's new 'inspector general for federal stimulus funds'. Or something like that.
Maybe job #1 should be fixing that clunky title.
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California's portion of the federal stimulus money seems to be flowing a little faster every day. And with it comes folks watching how it will be spent. A lot of folks.
On this morning's edition of The California Report, I reported on the complexity involved in managing some $48 billion in money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That management, and distribution, is passing through multiple channels, often led by Governor Schwarzenegger's economic stimulus task force but also including the Legislature, local officials, and others.
John Myers is Sacramento Bureau Chief for KQED's "The California Report," heard on 24 public radio stations including 88.5 FM in San Francisco and 89.3 FM in Sacramento, weekdays at 6:50 a.m. and 8:50 a.m.
