November 17, 2010 Cities Face a Deepening Fiscal Crisis By Steven Malanga The steep fiscal crisis that many states face includes staggering retirement costs for their workers, estimated at some $3 trillion in unfunded future promises. The size of those liabilities has already shaken up some municipal bond investors, and the inadequate, sometimes misleading way […]
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California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Lend You a Knife? Nov. 15 2010 – By JOEL KOTKIN Image via Wikipedia In the future, historians may likely mark the 2010 midterm elections as the end of the California era and the beginning of the Texas one. In one stunning stroke, amid a national conservative tide,
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Will Kane, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, November 13, 2010 Latinos now make up a majority of California’s public school students, cracking the 50 percent barrier for the first time in the state’s history, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Education. Almost 50.4 percent of the state’s students in the
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