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Is California budget as ‘balanced and progressive’ as Gov. Brown suggests?

SACRAMENTO – The California Assembly and Senate have until Thursday to approve the budget deal announced by Gov. Jerry Brown last week, but there’s little uncertainty about the outcome. The general-fund budget is a record-setting $125 billion – something Brown

CalWatchdog Morning Read – July 29

CalWatchdog Staff July 29, 2016

CalSTRS v. Volkswagen Congressional candidate issuing terrorist-hunting permits What you need to know about the vaccine law Earned Income Tax Credit misses estimates Many voters skipping Senate race Good morning! The legislative summer recess is coming to an end, so

Brown: State of the State is fiscal restraint

Matt Fleming January 21, 2016

With a cautiously optimistic tone, Gov. Jerry Brown preached prudence on Thursday morning during his annual State of the State address. The speech — courteous in its brevity, clocking in at under 20 minutes — touted accomplishments and initiatives, like

L.A. caps CA trend with $15 minimum wage vote

James Poulos May 27, 2015

By a nearly unanimous vote, the Los Angeles City council voted to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. As the biggest development yet in a nationwide labor effort meant to compensate for failed federal legislation,

Welfare, housing: Clinton pragmatism still ignored by CA’s dim paleo Dems

Chris Reed February 24, 2014

In the late 1980s, after three straight Republican presidential wins in which GOP candidates won 133 of 150 states, the Democratic Leadership Council seized prominence in Democratic policy circles with its centrist reform agenda. Founded in 1985 by strategist Al