Sacramento Bee editorial criticizing AB 101 as bad policy, greased through the Legislature just before the end of the session, which would allow state subsidized child care workers to unionize, ultimately giving them a single strong voice and more clout to negotiate higher child-care subsidy rates with the state and causing state costs to soar.

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California Watch reports on a Department of Finance audit finding that the state administrator of school construction bond funds is struggling to fulfill its oversight role and routinely ignores its internal oversight policies and the requirements to audit projects.

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Business Wire reports a new study has found that school projects built under Project Labor Agreement contracts cost $28.90 to $32.49 more per square foot.

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Dan Walters writes for the Sacramento Bee on voters' instinctive reluctance to pay more taxes due to a steady stream of incidents implying that the taxes they already pay are often wasted.

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San Francisco Business Times reports on an audit released by Controller John Chiang's office showing that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has “grossly inadequate” finance procedures which put millions of dollars of public money at risk of fraud and misappropriation.

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