Local government leaders are backing a legislative effort that calls on product manufacturers to plan for the complete life cycle of their creations.

Elected officials in Missouri will begin undergoing drug screening under new legislation given first-round House approval last week.

Lawmakers, judges and other state officeholders would receive drug tests before taking office and every two years after that. The officials would pay for the tests, and refusing one would be considered an admission that they used a controlled substance without permission, according to the Kansas City Star newspaper.

Guest commentary in response to the article New Controller’s Office Report Overstates Level of IHSS Overpayments to 'Deceased Persons' that ran on PublicCEO on Feb. 4.

Unless a Provider of I.H.S.S. services actually forges a time sheet due to not reporting that their recipient died, there is no way a Provider can be paid for services to a dead person.

Every two weeks, here in Yolo County of California, the Provider must bring a fresh time sheet to the recipient to be signed and dated by BOTH of them.

The bankrupt city of Vallejo cut health care payments for retired employees, but an initial recovery plan does not touch pensions.

When the old port city on the far side of San Francisco Bay filed a rare municipal bankruptcy in May 2008, there was speculation about whether bankruptcy would become a way for deficit-ridden cities to shed crushing retirement debts.

Three California cities are among the “drunkest” in America, according to a survey done by Men’s Health magazine that will appear in the March issue.

Fresno ranked atop of the list as the wettest city in America. Riverside and Bakersfield were ranked No. 4 and No. 10.

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I have many fond memories associated with South Lake Tahoe - renting a cabin with friends, a couple of weddings, a couple of rowdy New Years Eves...  I'm sure I'm not alone in having a lot of great times at this great postcard perfect vacation spot. 

But while many of us visit South Lake Tahoe, believe it or not there are nearly 35,000 people who call that city their home.

Ron Kaye is the former Editor of the Los Angeles Daily News. For more, visit Fox & Hounds Daily.

They blinked at layoffs. They blinked at eliminating or slashing funding for the disabled, for the elderly, for Neighborhood Councils, for Environment Affairs, Arts, Culture, for just about everything that was proposed to stave off bankruptcy.

They blinked and squinted in the face of the daunting task they face of cutting spending, cutting staff, streamlining government.