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Back to homepageDoes Budget Forum Portend Tax Hikes?
DEC. 9, 2010 By KATY GRIMES In what appeared to be an event designed to prepare California for tax increases, Governor-elect Jerry Brown held a well-attended budget forum on Wednesday to discuss California’s precarious state budget and extraordinary deficit. The
Read MoreForecast: CA Economic Lull to Continue
DEC. 8, 2010 By JOHN SEILER When Gov. Jerry Brown takes office in less than a month and deals with the state’s $25 billion budget deficit, he will get no more help from the state’s economy than he has from
Read MoreState Voters Don't Want Tax Hikes
DEC. 8, 2010 Rebuttal to Dan Walters By WAYNE LUSVARDI Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters is calling for a $20 billion tax increase to permanently plug the structural budget deficit in California on the grounds that it would have virtually
Read MoreCalifornia’s Crippling Brain Drain
DEC. 5, 2010 By LAER PEARCE Three articles caught my eye Sunday morning, and what a tale they tell! The first article said that Donald Lamm, 57, has announced his retirement as city manager of Westminster, an Orange County city
Read MoreCalifornia's New Depression
DEC. 3, 2010 By JOHN SEILER As California approaches a new year, with a new governor and other statewide officers, it’s worth reviewing what I call “California economic realities.” These are the factors which, at all levels, affect the state’s
Read MoreRetrospective: Pork OD Kills Water Project
DEC. 1, 2010 By RICHARD TRAINOR When former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown said that a “political earthquake” is rumbling in the Central Valley over water he was right on the money, and it seems that
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