John Chiang

SACRAMENTO — Let's cut through all the baloney being spread in California's tax brawl and go straight to what's basically at stake. At stake, at least in the near future, is whether public school funding will be slashed from kindergarten through...

Consider this: You pay your taxes, you go to work, you are both accountable and responsible, a contributing member of society. When you go to the doctor, you pay — some from insurance, some from your pocket — and you wait, sometimes hours in...

The Los Angeles Community College District has agreed to pay $1 million to a firm that alleged that it was unfairly passed over during the selection of an inspector general to oversee a $6-billion campus rebuilding program....

State Controller John Chiang appointed Torrance attorney Gavin Wasserman to serve on the panel that enforces campaign finance and conflict-of-interest laws, bypassing a more controversial figure also vying for the seat....

The Proposition 30 campaign launched its first television ad Wednesday, but there was something conspicuously missing from the spot -- Gov. Jerry Brown. The initiative is Brown’s effort to raise sales and upper income taxes to help balance the...

Just a month into the new fiscal year, California tax revenue has slipped almost $400 million below expectations set by Gov. Jerry Brown's administration. The state pulled in just over $5 billion in July, less than its $5.4-billion goal, according......

Spending on most new construction projects in the Los Angeles Community College District's $6-billion campus building project has resumed....

A review by the California controller found that two cities improperly handled roughly $350 million in redevelopment money and assets, officials announced on Tuesday. Both cities -- Milpitas and Morgan Hill, both in Santa Clara County -- protested but...

The Times' Sacramento reporter Patrick McGreevy will join L.A. Now Live to discuss a recent audit by Controller John Chiang's office that found that California's teacher retirement system does not take adequate measures to prevent pension "spiking."...

California’s teacher retirement system does not adequately audit proposed pension benefits to prevent spiking and has missed opportunities to reduce possible abuses, the state controller found in a review released Wednesday. The California State...

This post has been updated. See below for details. A review of the scandal-plagued California parks department found that managers were circumventing payroll policies and boosting employee salaries, according to the state controller's office on Tuesday....

California will need fewer accounting maneuvers to survive the fiscal year, officials announced on Friday. For the last five years, the state has routinely delayed payments to schools, colleges and social service programs in order to paper over shortfalls...