Our Voice: Agencies must account for all taxpayer dollars
Audits are part of the cost of doing business, especially for government agencies.
- May 23, 2013
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Audits are part of the cost of doing business, especially for government agencies.
'Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman,' Associate Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1913.
A comment from James W. Miller, a retired clinical researcher at Desert Oasis Healthcare, on the online version of our story announcing that President Obama would meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Annenberg Retreat said it well: 'What a fitting and glorious venue for these leaders to meet!'
Gov. Jerry Brown is on the right track with his mid-May revisions to the state budget. All he needs to do is get his fellow Democrats in the Legislature to go along.
It hasn't been a great week for the Obama folks, as the scandal du jour tour has firmly taken hold. Every day it seems another federal agency is exposed as having intimidated, snooped, covered up or gone to Vegas on the taxpayer dime. Zimbabwe is even making fun of us.
Twenty-five years ago, California voters approved — albeit very narrowly — the education community's ballot measure that engraved a complex school-finance structure into the state constitution.
Monday was horrifically hot — and nobody felt it as deeply as the professional cyclists who blazed through the Coachella Valley during the Amgen Tour of California, the fourth-largest cycling event in the world.
It's a conundrum: How do you attract more tourists to the Coachella Valley during the slow summer season when it actually costs more to get here?
We live in a voyeuristic society.
A highly contentious issue in Indian Wells was finally put to bed on Thursday.
Everyone knows the cliché attributed to Mark Hanna, who managed the presidential campaign of William McKinley when the Republican outspent Democrat William Jennings Bryan by more than 10 to one in 1896: 'There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is.'
In Washington, as in any seat of power, most acts of folly begin with hubris.
Gov. Jerry Brown is doing the right thing by refusing to reduce the California prison population further despite threats of contempt from federal judges.
Recently, the Democrat majority on the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee voted along party lines to defeat the Realignment Reinvestment Act.
State legislators often conduct their windiest floor debates over nonbinding 'resolutions' commending this or that, condemning this or that, or beseeching Congress to do this or that.
Every time there's a horrendous story about kidnapping or child molestation America loses another ounce of freedom.
If Palm Springs is truly going to remain a film festival hot spot — the Palm Springs International Film Festival, ShortFest and many others — and also achieve the dream of becoming an incubator for film talent through advanced educational programs, we as a community need to make the effort to grow our own talent.
There's a widely held belief that truancy and criminal activity go hand in hand.
When asked how they would like to see Measure J funds spent, many in Palm Springs said they'd like to see investment in bike and walking paths.
Palm Desert High School teachers should reconsider their decision to boycott graduation and get back to the bargaining table.
The 7-0 decision by the California Supreme Court that cities and counties have the right to control medical marijuana dispensaries is an appropriate declaration of support for local control and sensible zoning laws.
The U.S. Senate voted Monday for tax equity that brick-and-mortar retailers have been awaiting for more than 20 years.
MONDAY NEWSMAKER: Roger Shintaku became general manager of the Salton Sea Authority in January. Shintaku, a civil engineer, has a background including experience in strategic planning, project development, water resources planning and liaison work with governmental agencies.
Whenever I sit in front of a graduating class, as I will in a few weeks, I can't help but imagine a row of doors behind me, with each graduate holding tightly to a set of keys.
Earlier this week, California Gov. Jerry Brown's point man on the highly controversial proposal to bore tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta found himself in political hot water.
Living in the shadows of the ongoing war on terror are 1,715 American military people who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Southern California may be known for its deep-rooted love of cars, but some local resorts are encouraging their guests to enjoy the beauty of Palm Springs on the back of a bike.
A plan to give F Street in Cathedral City designation — not a formal name change — as Agnes Pelton Way is smart compromise between those who want the late artist to be officially recognized and those who fear the confusion that could come as the result of a name change.
Assemblyman V. Manuel Pérez seems to have been playing a game of hide and seek with journalists this week.
All elected officials should have learned this lesson by now: Be careful with credit cards.
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