Arnold Schwarzenegger and California’s Controller John Chiang are still jousting over the status of that supposedly dead computer language, Cobol. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Schwarzenegger has ordered Chiang to slash salaries of California state workers in order to conserve cash until the bitterly divided State Assembly gets ...

The New York Times and the Sacramento Bee are reporting an amusing story out of California about how Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt to knock some sense into the state’s free spending legislators is being stymied by an antiquated mainframe computer system. You see, California is having its annual summer shouting match between angry pols who ...