A formal state audit will now examine waste, fraud, and abuse at the OCBE. I intend to discuss what this…
Content being a Pink Toad? I guess it depends on an amphibian's level of sef-awareness. The lower, the happier. In…
If we're talking about Dan C, he has never seemed "happy."
Yes, I know that's the impulse but you gotta know what the Guatemalan hill folk know: you get poisoned and…
If it touches me first, all bets are off.
You're absolutely right that California should adopt it statewide -- and should already have done so. And you're absolutely right…
If I were Fiona ma or Rob Bonta I’d be scared.
RCV should be adopted statewide so cities and counties don’t have to do it piecemeal. It saves money, discourages negative…
My advice to Mr. Moore, who seems like an eminently reasonable man is the same as I always give Vern.…
willie brown Archive
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30 Years Since the OC Bankruptcy – a Special Edition of “Agents’ Orange”
Posted on December 5, 2024 | 9 CommentsRemember your history! Featuring the OC Business Council as usual... -
![Willie Brown is calling for an "honest dialogue" on California's public employee unions. Brown, the former San Francisco mayor and longtime Speaker of the California Assembly, has pointed out the obvious - that our civil servants now "[run] the show" in California. They have "job security for life" and "pushed by our friends in labor, gradually expanded pay and benefits to private-sector levels while keeping the job protections and layering on incredibly generous retirement packages that pay ex-workers almost as much as current workers". Standing against them, says Brown, is "politically unpopular and potentially even career suicide for most officeholders".](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Willie-Brown-rethinks-unions.jpg "Willie Brown: State of the Unions")
Willie Brown: State of the Unions
Posted on January 5, 2010 | 12 CommentsWillie Brown is calling for an "honest dialogue" on California's public employee unions. Brown, the former San Francisco mayor and longtime Speaker of the California Assembly, has pointed out the obvious - that our civil servants now "[run] the show" in California. They have "job security for life" and "pushed by our friends in labor, gradually expanded pay and benefits to private-sector levels while keeping the job protections and layering on incredibly generous retirement packages that pay ex-workers almost as much as current workers". Standing against them, says Brown, is "politically unpopular and potentially even career suicide for most officeholders". -
![(Photo courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle) Former Assembly Leader and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has written a very interesting column for the San Francisco Chronicle regarding GOP Vice […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Willie Brown says it’s a contest between Brother Barack and Sister Sarah")
Willie Brown says it’s a contest between Brother Barack and Sister Sarah
Posted on September 14, 2008 | 9 Comments(Photo courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle) Former Assembly Leader and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has written a very interesting column for the San Francisco Chronicle regarding GOP Vice […]
So you're gonna write a piece about this audit? Good, folks have been asking us to cover that on this…