State worker benefit fund near insolvency – Legislative mismanagement blamed
Posted by Scott “The Piper” St. Clair – March 12, 2010

Legislative mismanagement of the state worker benefit fund has put it close to insolvency. It’s so bad – a $197 million projected deficit – that the Insurance Commissioner’s office said that it if it were a [...]

Cal Watchdog

Mar. 9, 2010
Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters has been covering California politics since 1975. No one writing about our beloved state government has more experience or authority.
But Walters did a curious thing in his March 3 column, titled “Brown’s back – with his baggage.” After spending the entire column talking about Attorney General/gubernatorial candidate [...]

By Sean Whaley
Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – An inquiry into the use of campaign funds by Assemblywoman Kathy McClain in 2009 to pay her Clark County retirement contributions while serving as a lawmaker has been expanded to include additional expenditures as well.
In a letter sent today to McClain’s attorney, the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office [...]

RICHMOND–Privileges for Virginia hybrid drivers will likely be renewed, but officials say the special treatment won’t last forever.
The general assembly re-authorized legislation allowing drivers of specified hybrid vehicles to use the high occupancy vehicles lanes in the northern Virginia and Hampton Roads areas, as it’s done every year since the program began. The HOV lanes [...]

Gov. Bill Richardson got over $57 million in discretionary funds under the 2009 federal stimulus bill.  What’s he doing with the money? Here’s the latest tally, numbers provided by the New Mexico Office of Recovery and Reinvestment.
First, those projects for which a formal notice of fund allocation has been issued, meaning the money is encumbered [...]