We've covered some of the soaring salaries of public employees in California before, but late last month, one California school superintendent did a remarkable thing to help his districts save more of the money they need to provide a better service for students.  He voluntarily cut his own salary by over $200,000.

Operation Fast and Furious almost seems like something out of the Keystone Cops, a massive bumbling government operation that even one of those involved described as "delusional."

In more troubling economic news, a recent report released by the Sacramento-based California Budget Project stated that the percentage of working-age Californians with jobs has reached a new record low, and that employment levels may not fully recover until the second half of this decade.

In 1976, when Jerry Brown was California governor the first time, Chicago columnist Mike Royko famously dubbed him "Governor Moonbeam." The moniker stuck, even if Royko later apologized for it. But perhaps he had a point after all.

On the same day that a small earthquake shook the San Fernando Valley, a recent Rasmussen Reports study of partisan trends indicates that unaffiliated voters will likely be shaking up the nation's political landscape.

August saw the most U.S. soldier fatalities in Afghanistan in a single month since the beginning of the decade-long occupation by coalition forces. A total of 67 U.S. servicemen lost their lives last month in the Afghanistan combat theater.

In a 50-3 vote, California's lower house has approved a bill that would restrict the way state and local governments use automated traffic enforcement systems, namely the controversial red-light camera.