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'Ideal' State Budget Forecast
JAN. 14, 2011 By KATY GRIMES On Thursday the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees got a dose of happy budget talk, and a hopeful economic prognosis, from the state’s Finance Department. But not everyone was buying the rosy outlook. Newly
Read MoreBrown Refuses Minor Pension Reforms
JAN. 14, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Gov. Jerry Brown is coming into office with a lot of highly publicized and some praiseworthy activity, as he pushes ahead what he calls an honest budget, free from the usual gimmicks, and makes
Read MoreThe Rube Goldberg Budget Machine
JAN. 14, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Governor Jerry Brown’s newly released state budget can be analogized to one of those Rube Goldberg cartoon machines. While Brown’s proposed state budget is a long overdue step in the right direction toward reducing
Read MoreMexican View of Government
John Seiler: We can learn about government from our Mexican friends just across the border. Millions of them now live here in California, as well as the rest of the USA. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that Mexico’s
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