Todd Maddison is the Director of Research for Transparent California, a watchdog agency that gathers and publishes millions of public employee compensation records annually.
It’s an election year, which means it’s time to talk about tax increases! Yay? In the past few years massive post-pandemic tax revenue increases combined with skyrocketing real estate prices have driven tax receipts ever higher. One might think that...
With the likely ascendance of Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic Party’s ticket this November we will see increased scrutiny of her past record. As we should. We’ve already seen some great work on that, including an article...
Lately we’ve all seen reporting decrying an increase in “extremism” in our school boards. From articles telling us “It’s becoming increasingly clear that our state is going to need a new coalition committed to keeping extremists off our public school...