Natural News reports that high maintenance costs, high rates of failure, and fluctuating weather conditions that affect energy production render wind turbines expensive and inefficient, and has led to more than 14,000 of them being abandoned.

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LA Times OP ED criticizing the ever expanding budget projections of California's proposed bullet train.

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Mike Rosenberg of the Mercury News reports that the cost of the state's massive high-speed rail project has zoomed to nearly $100 billion -- triple the estimate given to voters and more than enough to run the entire state government for a year.

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Bloomberg Businessweek highlights the story of a nurse at a men’s prison on California’s central coast tripling her regular pay with overtime hours as just another example of how public sector union provisions continue to strangle the State with debt.

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The Sacramento Bee reports the California State Assembly routinely underreports the amount of money used to run legislators' personal offices and overreports the operating costs of committees that do the brunt of the policy work in the house. The practice obscures how the lower house's $146.7 million budget truly is spent at the Capitol and protects legislators from public criticism of their spending.

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