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Back to homepageBudget Negotiations Getting Combative
MARCH 18, 2011 By KATY GRIMES The Legislature Thursday passed the main budget bill, with nearly $14 billion in spending reductions. Budgets would be slashed for libraries, higher education, parks, programs for the poor, universities and colleges, state parks and
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John Seiler: Anti-tax folks seem to have a hard time pushing their message. Everything gets wrapped up in a “deal,” real or imagined, with Gov. Jerry Brown to put a vote on his $12 billion tax increase before voters in
Read MoreGloves Off, Republicans Debate
Katy Grimes: With California Republican legislators currently at odds over whether or not to support putting Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax extensions on the ballot, it was Republican versus Republican yesterday at a lunchtime debate, over party philosophy and strategy. And
Read MoreCalifornia Budget Gap Grows
John Seiler: Wayne Lusvardi contributed the following: Where’s Waldo in the Western U.S.? Take a look at the bar graph below, excerpted from the San Francisco Federal Reserve website. The graph shows in the blue bars the percent of budget
Read MoreFamilies, Not Relief, Still Safety Net
MARCH 18, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI With implications for California budget discussions, a new study shows that unemployment benefits delay the time the jobless find work. The study comes out at a time when California’s unemployment rate of 12.4 percent
Read MoreAssembly OKs Prisoner Dump
MARCH 18, 2011 By DAVE ROBERTS On a straight party-line vote, California Assembly Democrats approved a public safety bill on Thursday that Republicans warned will dump inmates out of overcrowded state prisons and into overcrowded county jails — or release
Read MoreNPR Losing Federal Funds
Katy Grimes: Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to deny $422 million in future federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio. As part of the GOP plan to cut federal spending, federal subsidies
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