I told you we'd hear more. Bob Sillen got fired earlier this year as the almost unfettered overseer of reforming California's dangerous prison health care system. And now the state Office of Inspector General (OIG) has reviewed his (and his staff's) spending habits. Looks like the easiest to explain (though Sillen apparently couldn't say who ...

Instead of a countdown to the start of baseball spring training, I should have launched a countdown to the day Bob Sillen would get fired from his nearly two year job of overseeing the health care overhaul of the California prison system. Sillen was ousted Jan. 23 by a district court judge who said it was time to move the redo into a ...

Sometimes it's smarter to eat crunchy peanut butter on burned wheat toast than to open your mouth -- or pound on your keyboard. Cases to consider: From an Orange County Register editorial, critical of the Schwarzenegger-Nunez notion of health care reform: ''But health care is no more a right endowed by our Creator than is a job or a pension or ...