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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Sunday, Budget Sunday
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[Below was tonight's "live blogging" of the Assembly budget debate and vote. Thanks to all of you who wrote in while it was happening. By the way, the original Sunday budget preview posting is now here.] 8:16pm Budget fails to … Continue reading
Sunday Budget Preview
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BUDGET DAY PLUS 47 — Expect some heated policy talk, sprinkled with shrewd politics and a dash of theatrics as the Assembly convenes this afternoon to debate, and vote, on a new state budget — the first Sunday session of … Continue reading
Podcast Post Weekend
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Just a note that we're going to hold on to the next edition of the podcast until after this weekend's budget developments.
Budget Vote Sunday. Don't Get Excited
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BUDGET DAY PLUS 44 — It now looks as though the Assembly will convene on Sunday to consider a budget proposal, in what would be the first actual floor vote on a new spending plan this year. But it's not … Continue reading
State Worker Salaries: 11 Days of Savings
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BUDGET DAY PLUS 43 — The administration of Governor Schwarzenegger has some new estimates on how much money could be saved by implementing the executive order on state worker salaries. And those numbers seem to indicate that the order, if … Continue reading
Add $3.1 Billion to Budget Deficit?
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There's a chance the budget hole just got deeper, if the courts side with the man tapped to resolve problems with health care in California's prisons. Clark Kelso, the federal court appointed receiver for prison health care, decided today to … Continue reading
Deadline Schmedline
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BUDGET DAY PLUS 42 — It's the unofficial motto of procrastinators everywhere: why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? So it goes, too, with state government. While the budget deadline has been the big news for weeks … Continue reading
Lawsuit Yes... Budget, No?
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BUDGET DAY PLUS 41 — Only during a state budget impasse could one say, with a straight face, that while it's been a hectic day… not that much has actually happened. The one solid thing that has happened is Governor … Continue reading
Podcast: No Budget? Really?
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BUDGET DAY PLUS 38 — This week on the Capital Notes Podcast, we look back at the week's rumblings on the state budget impasse… from the governor's moves on state worker pay and a possible tax increase, to why legislators … Continue reading
State Pay Fracas: Calling Nick Burns
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Staffers in the office of Controller John Chiang met today with staffers from the state personnel department in the ongoing saga over whether the payroll computer system can actually spit out minimum wage paychecks anytime soon. Not surprisingly, they still … Continue reading
