Janet Reno, Attorney General during the Clinton Administration, has passed away at 78. California Insurance Commissioner David Jones recalls Reno as “an extraordinary public servant” who was “incredibly accessible to the public.” According to Commissioner Jones, Janet Reno called attorneys “to make sure she was getting all the facts” and her guiding principle was…
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“There is no native criminal class except Congress,” said Mark Twain. A look at California might change his mind. As Taryn Luna notes in the Sacramento Bee, the state political ethics watchdog wants a $57,000 fine against state Senator Tony Mendoza, who allegedly “broke campaign-finance laws to keep money out of the hands of…
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CNBC recently featured an op-ed by Peter Tanous, in which the noted author and investment advisor warns of a potential economic catastrophe that none of the 2016 election’s presidential candidates is seriously addressing. The nation’s dire predicament, Tanous argues, is a direct result of how the extraordinary runup of the national debt during the…
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From the time that Barack Obama was sworn into office as the U.S. President on January 20, 2009, to the time the next president is sworn into office in January 2017, the total public debt outstanding will have nearly doubled. Since it started at $10.6 trillion, to call that a massively huge run-up in…
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Claudia Buck of the Sacramento Bee attempts to explain “Why Covered California’s rate hikes are lower than the rest of the U.S.” The rate increases for California’s Obamacare division have gone up double digits for the first time, 13.2 percent compared to the national average of 25 percent. Covered California boss Peter Lee expects…
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