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Category Archives: Pension Reform
San Jose City Council Votes to Put Pension Reform on Ballot
Update 6:25 p.m. The City Council passed the measure to put the pension reform plan on the ballot by a vote of 6-5. The Mercury News has the story here. Earlier post The San Jose City Council is meeting to … Continue reading
New Pension Initiatives Target Current Workers
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There's a temptation to dust off the quote attributed to an infamous bank robber when assessing two new and explosive initiative proposals to rework the pensions of public employees in California. Why do the proposed ballot measures go after the … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Compton Officials Vow Not to File for Bankruptcy; Occupy Fresno Told to Decamp
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Compton finds itself in full financial meltdown (Los Angeles Times) LAUSD faces suit … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Paris Says Oui to Fixies; Mapping Dark Matter in Irvine
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. U.S. makes deported immigrants take the long way home (Los Angeles Times) Some … Continue reading
Rachael's Breakfast Blend: Ireland Reaches Out for its Own; Swimmer Diana Nyad Heads for Cuba
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. L.A. County is seeing a spike in deputy-fraud allegations (Los Angeles Times) Costa … Continue reading
Check Oakland Public Employee Salaries in Database
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The Bay Area News Group announced on Friday it had added Oakland public employee salaries to its database of hundreds of cities, schools, and special districts throughout the Bay Area for the year 2010. For the past several years, the … Continue reading
Rachael's Breakfast Blend: LA's Taste for Red Light Cameras Sours; Pisco the New "It" Spirit
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. L.A. Council gridlocked on red-light cameras (Los Angeles Times) Robert Rizzo lists house … Continue reading
Live: San Jose City Council Discusses 'Fiscal State of Emergency' as Labor Invokes Wisconsin
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The San Jose City Council meets today at 1:30 p.m. and you can watch the proceedings live online. Here is today's agenda, which includes discussion of a controversial fiscal reform plan, outlined in this memo from Mayor Chuck Reed, Vice … Continue reading
Search Public Employee Salaries by County or Government Agency
More great news for Bay Area public employees: Now anyone can look up their 2010 salaries on this handy database. In this era of want, a more invidious set of data you won't find. The Bay Area News Group put … Continue reading
Interview: Jeff Adachi Outlines Provisions of His New Pension Reform Initiative
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Yesterday KQED's Joshua Johnson talked to Jeff Adachi, whose name might as well be Sauron to city workers, about what is fast becoming the hottest button issue of the decade: Pension reform. Last year, Adachi, who is San Francisco's Public … Continue reading
