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Category Archives: CA Budget
Reporter's Notebook: From Budget Cash to Court Clash
Few things make eyes bleary and heads throb more than reading government ledger sheets and complex, legalese court rulings. Throw in some minutiae about best budget practices and gubernatorial style… and you've got a full week. Hence, the weekend cleanup … Continue reading
Partisan Gridlock No, Political Battle Yes
For a governor who took office with more actual experience than virtually any elected leader in modern times, the long-awaited announcement of a budget-related initiative seems to mark the official end to Act I of Jerry Brown's return to Sacramento. … Continue reading
Brown's Pension Musings: From Ponzi to Castor Oil
Few governors could probably pull off an appearance like Governor Jerry Brown's visit to a legislative committee examining his proposal to rework the public employee pension system. But as he's proved before, Brown often seems to believe that when it … Continue reading
The Crowding Field of 2012 Tax Initiatives
California voters have long had a reputation as anti-tax, a reputation that explains why so many proposals either fizzle before ever making it to the ballot… or are roundly rejected on Election Day. But the November 2012 ballot appears poised … Continue reading
Rethinking Budget Trigger Unlikely, Says Speaker
Assembly Speaker John Perez isn't ruling it out — never say never, one supposes — but nonetheless says that talk of the Legislature stopping, or even just rejiggering, the budget's automatic spending cuts isn't likely to go anywhere. "I don’t … Continue reading
Super Committee for California's Initiative Process
Frustrated by the tendency of elected officials to kowtow to political pressure and the unchecked power of interest groups to write their own laws that never get revisited, California's latest governance reform effort proposes a new third way: a citizens … Continue reading
Don't Cut Higher Ed. And Don't Ask Me to Pay More!
Say what you will about Californians, but when it comes to their desires and demands about government services, they are consistently inconsistent. A newly released statewide poll shows that while large majorities of residents are angry… even downright depressed… about … Continue reading
LAO Predicts Trigger Pulled On Budget Cuts
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The annual fiscal forecast of the Legislative Analyst's Office is always interesting to budget wonks, but never so consequential to the services used by millions of Californians as it is this year. That forecast, released this morning, projects the state … Continue reading
California Supreme Court Slugfest Over Redevelopment
SAN FRANCISCO — The crux of the legal fight waged this morning in front of California's seven Supreme Court justices seems to be who controls the fate of local redevelopment agencies: legislators or voters? And even then, is that fate … Continue reading
Notebook: Pension Politics, DiFi's Free Shot?
There's probably nothing harder than prognosticating the politics of hot button issues or high profile campaigns. There's also nothing more fun — that is, if you're a political junkie. Hence the inspiration for a weekend edition of the Reporter's Notebook.
