Jack Humphreville, LA Watch Dog for City Watch  (6 min) – A former top executive of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power pleaded guilty this week to a federal bribery charge stemming from the probe of the city’s handling of the botched launch of a DWP billing system.

Sally C. Pipes is President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute – So called“Single Payer,” government run healthcare is being proposed again in Sacramento that would amount to a total takeover of the entire healthcare system of the state of California.  We discuss what is being proposed, how it would be funded, and the likely impact on business.