New “watchdog” website for California government launched

The Pacific Research Institute, and non-profit think tank in Sacramento, has launched a new investigative reporting website at www.CalWatchdog.com.   According to their website, “CalWatchdog is an independent, Sacramento-based journalism venture providing original investigative reports and news stories covering California state government. We’re focused on reporting on the state Capitol, state agencies and on significant government-related stories from across California that are of statewide importance” and they aspire to be “part of a new wave of web-based reporting designed to improve oversight of government”  .

The San Francisco-based institute retained journalist Steven Greenhut Greenhut to lead the nonprofit news site that is intended to be non-partisan.  Greenhut was deputy editor and columnist for The Orange County Register for 11 years. He is author of the new book, “Plunder! How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation.”