Can Money Buy a Committee Assignment in Sacramento?
This week, the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting published a compelling breakdown of one of the ways money makes the world go round in Sacramento. Computer analysis of more than 38,000 donations from last year's legislative campaign suggests a strong correlation between financial donations made by state lawmakers to political races identified by the Assembly speaker, and choice assignments to the so-called "juice" policy committees.
UC Medical Center Workers Threaten to Strike
Health care workers at five University of California medical centers are threatening to strike for two days next week. Nursing aides, lab technicians and others staged protests at centers around the state Wednesday over pay, pensions, and staffing.