CalPERS violates accounting rules by hiding outside consulting costs in internal investment overheads. None of the possible reasons are good.
Read more...A remarkable series of accidents led to the CalPERS board not being told how much CEO Marcie Frost’s advisor Randle Communications costs.
Read more...The latest sordid episode in the teardown of the US mail service.
Read more...A desperate Government Brexit ploy, perhaps conceived to increase its negotiating options, has quickly become an own goal.
Read more...CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost told the press that she’s punting on her compliance duties.
Read more...A CSU group has asked Gavin Newsom to put CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost on administrative leave while an inspector general probes governane failings.
Read more...CalPERS staff is too obviously still trying to stymie Controller Betty Yee’s governance reforms.
Read more...Controller Betty Yee forcefully slapped down CalPERS’ CEO Frost’s claim that Yee was satisfied with the burial of Yee’s governance issues.
Read more...Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers footed the bill for every new drug approved from 2010 to 2019
Read more...A rallying cry for the Post Office.
Read more...CalPERS has long covered up its dirty linen, including by making uninformative presentations to the board.
Read more...Riots and street violence are often blamed for producing a political backlash, but the real picture is more complex.
Read more...The libertarian justification of hierarchies and expropriation of land.
Read more...The FDA’s eagerness to launch a Covid-19 vaccine is not a way to win public trust, particularly in light of the agency’s record of bad calls.
Read more...Teachers are going down to the wire with a strike threat in New York City over their assessment that planned Covid protections are inadequate.
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