Professor John J. Pitney Jr. was recently quoted in a New York Times article on the upcoming California election for Barbara Boxer’s US Senate seat. GOP challengers are gearing up for what may be a fairly competitive race, according to the article. The NYT reports that Pitney “said [Senator Barbara] Boxer’s previous easy victories in [...]
Rose Institute Fellow Douglas Johnson was quoted last week in an article by The Oakland Tribune on the possible financial crisis the city of Rialto may face in the next few years. The article reports that Johnson said: “city governments are grappling with similar decisions throughout the state as California’s budget woes and the national [...]
Rose Institute Fellow Dr. Steven Frates was quoted in a Friday Reuters article (picked up by Forbes online) about Calpers, America’s biggest pension fund. The article discusses how Calpers has been doing during the financial crisis, and Dr. Frates commented about Calpers’ relationship to taxpayers.
‘Calpers’ responsibility, broadly speaking, is to the taxpayers,’ said Steven [...]
Dr. Frates was recently quoted in a Los Angeles Daily News article on the subject of 1,400 Los Angeles Unified School District employees signing up for an early retirement plan. Frates discusses the pros and cons for the district:
“With early retirement the cost is not free, and retirement benefits will be doled out for a [...]
The Rose Institute, in conjunction with Claremont McKenna College Professor Ken Miller, would like to announce the recent launch of Miller-Rose Institute Initiative Database at http://initiatives.rosereport.org/. The database provides searchable summaries of all 900+ voter-approved statewide ballot initiatives in the twenty four initiative states from 1904-2008. Soon it will also provide summaries of post-election court [...]
Doug Johnson was recently quoted in a Congressional Quarterly article online on the race to fill the House seat recently vacated by Hilda Solis, who was recently named United States Secretary of Labor. Doug believes this campaign will not be decided in the general election.
If the contest proceeds to a special general election, the presumptive [...]
Current member of the Rose Institute Board of Governors and former speaker of the California Assembly, Bob Hertzberg, was recently named the Democratic Co-Chair of the organization California Forward. Mr. Hertzberg replaces Leon Panetta, who left the organization to become the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. California forward is a bi-partisan organization whose goal [...]
Doug Johnson is quoted in a recent San Gabriel Valley Tribune article on the subject of candidates for the Congressional seat recently vacated by Hilda Solis. Solis was recently appointed United States Secretary of Labor. Johnson comments on the challenges ahead for the candidates like Emanuel Pletez:
“When people talk about this race, there’s Cedillo and [...]
In a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, Doug Johnson weighs in on whether cities should be able to barter funds they will receive from the recent stimulus package. Johnson critiques the system as a misuse of taxpayer funds.
“What this is all doing is dodging the intent of the [federal] legislation,” said Douglas Johnson, [...]
Doug Johnson was recently quoted in the Whittier Daily News on the subject of how the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority allocated the county’s share of transportation stimulus funds. Johnson believes the money could be much better used by the MTA:
The MTA should not have allocated $500,000 in stimulus money to small cities in [...]
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