{"id":25209,"date":"2015-11-12T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=25209"},"modified":"2015-11-12T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:56:21","slug":"texas-vs-california-update-for-november-12-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=25209","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs. California Update for November 12, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for another Texas vs. California roundup:<\/p>\n

  • Is the Los Angeles Unified School District headed for bankruptcy<\/a>?\n
  • If it does, pensions are one of the main culprits<\/a>. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami<\/a>.)\n
  • A tale of two pension plans.<\/a> Atlanta successfully reformed theirs. San Jose didn’t. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami<\/a>.)\n
  • All five of the most expensive housing markets in the U.S.<\/a> are in California.\n
  • California ranks among the bottom five<\/a> in standardized school tests.\n
  • Part four<\/a> of a long, detailed piece on the fall of Pacific Grove, and why it matters<\/a>. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami<\/a>.)\n
  • Spending $15 billion for a tunnel for fish in the midst of a drought isn’t going over well<\/a> with California voters.\n
  • Who is the water-wasting Wet Prince of Bel Aire<\/a>?\n
  • The fight over California mining company Molycorp’s bankruptcy.<\/a>\n
  • Roses are Red\/Violets are Blue\/The State of California has\/Blood samples from you<\/a>.\n
  • The WNBA’s Tulsa (formerly Detroit) Shock relocate to Dallas<\/a>. In other news, the WNBA is evidently still in business.\n
  • TPPF’s Dr. Vance Ginn on why the Texas model works<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Time for another Texas vs. California roundup: Is the Los Angeles Unified School District headed for bankruptcy? If it does, pensions are one of the main culprits. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami.) A tale of two pension plans. Atlanta successfully reformed theirs. San Jose didn’t. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami.) All five of the most expensive housing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,232],"tags":[406,2164,1838,1354,2861,2357,2875,2995],"class_list":["post-25209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas","category-welfare-state","tag-california","tag-pacific-grove","tag-pension-crisis","tag-san-jose","tag-texas","tag-vance-ginn","tag-welfare-state","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25209"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25238,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25209\/revisions\/25238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}