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It’s OK to say you were wrong. If a company as big as Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX ) can backpedal on an ill-conceived move, so can Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) . (more)

The golden goodbye has not gone away.

Just last week, Léo Apotheker was shown the door after a tumultuous 11-month run atop Hewlett-Packard . His reward? $13.2 million in cash and
stock severance, in addition to a sign-on package worth about $10 million, according to a corporate filing on Thursday.
At the end of August, Robert P. Kelly was handed severance worth $17.2 million in cash and stock when he was ousted as chief executive of Bank of
New York Mellon after clashing with board members and senior managers. A few days later, Carol A. Bartz took home nearly $10 million from Yahoo
after being fired from the troubled search giant.

A hallmark of the gilded era of just a few short years ago, the eye-popping severance package continues to thrive in spite of the measures put in place
in the wake of the financial crisis to crack down on excessive pay.

Full story: Outsize Severance Continues for Executives Despite Failed Tenures

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) directors were concerned that plummeting shares would make the company vulnerable to a bid from Oracle Corp. (ORCL) when they replaced Leo Apotheker with Meg Whitman, two people close to the board said. (more)

The Hewlett-Packard board of directors named Meg Whitman its president and CEO Thursday, ousting Leo Apotheker after 11 months on the job. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard is set to name Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO and California candidate for governor, as its new CEO, forcing aside Leo Apotheker after just 11 months on the job. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co.’s decision to fire CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months and replace him with former eBay chief Meg Whitman is another dizzying turn of the executive merry-go-round at a company whose leadership issues are tearing it apart. (more)

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is poised to be named CEO of Hewlett-Packard later today after the markets are closed, said multiple sources close to the situation. (more)

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ)’s board plans to meet to consider whether to oust Leo Apotheker as chief executive officer after less than 11 months on the job, two people familiar with the matter said. (more)

California’s 32,000 prison guards and parole officers — notorious for enjoying political clout wildly exceeding their meager numbers — tried to negotiate a new contract with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for four years but got nowhere. After just three months of negotiations with Jerry Brown, they got their contract, and hapless Californians got the clearest signal yet that Brown is not going to deal responsibly with the state’s unfunded public employee pension liabilities of as much as $500 billion. (more)

You’ve really done it this time, Arianna Huffington. You’ve violated the unwritten rules of our culture. Rose above our comfort zone. Now, sadly, we must destroy you. But don’t take it personally. It’s simply because, well, you’re a woman. (more)

Wow, what a year. (more)

After the 2010 midterms, you could almost hear conservative pundits dismissing California as the land of fruits, nuts and irrelevancy. They couldn’t be further from the truth. Even though California doggedly stayed left while nearly every other state veered right, it still remains the supercharged engine for America’s progressive movement. If anything, the midterms just stomped down its accelerator. (more)

California’s struggling economy, downward-spiraling fiscal position and ongoing legislative gridlock would have seemed to be fertile ground for the voter revolt that swept across the country in November. (more)

“I’d be safe and warm if I was in L.A.  California dreaming on such a winter’s day.”
-The Mamas & The Papas (more)

I won’t apologize for it. As a Frederick Douglass Republican, I support Michael Steele’s bid for re-election as chairman of the Republican National Committee. (more)

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman agreed Wednesday to provide her former housekeeper with $5,500 in unpaid wages to settle a dispute that erupted after it was revealed the woman was an illegal immigrant. (more)

Look closely at the recently-elected 112th Congress. Notice all those bright new faces of “color”? Guess what, most of those faces are Republican. The GOP fielded a large number of ethnic candidates, and, to the surprise of some, a large number won. The new Republican crop includes five Hispanic freshmen, including one woman, Jaime Herrera, who won an open seat in, of all places, Washington. And the two Hispanic Republican candidates in Texas won by defeating Democratic incumbents. (more)

This election broke the mold in many ways, including the role that women played in the political arena. In fact, while the tug-of-war between champions of limited government and supporters of activist, big government will undoubtedly continue for decades, expectations for women in our political system may be permanently altered. (more)

Check out TheDC’s liveblog from last night (more)

There was a great deal of buzz this election cycle about the preponderance of Republican women who had thrown their hats into the ring — indeed some even went so far as to declare 2010 the year of the GOP woman. (more)