Summer doesn't officially end until September 22. But the state's Summer of Debt -- at least from a cash perspective -- will end on September 4, according to Controller John Chiang.
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It was a busy second day of the new fiscal year at the printing facility tucked inside a quiet business park in a shaded east Sacramento neighborhood. But unlike most days, they weren't printing thousands of checks paid by the state of California.

This time, they were printing documents that aren't worth anything. For now, at least.
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