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Tag Archives: Jean Ross
Take It to the Limit... and Beyond?
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The television ad features a portly man at a restaurant table, being brought plate after plate of heaping portions, as the announcer mockingly says, "Tell him it's time the people took control of gluttonous government spending." The commercial aired in … Continue reading
Prop 1A: Not Quite A Cap, Not Just For Rainy Days
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The rhetoric in support and opposition of the marquee measure on next month's special election ballot is fairly simple. The measure itself is anything but. On this morning's edition of The California Report, we presented the first of two stories … Continue reading
The Itchy (Budget) Trigger
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And now, the latest developments from the "Clear as Mud" files… everyone who's anyone around the state Capitol wants to know whether California's share of the federal economic stimulus package is large enough to allow some of the less-than-loved budget … Continue reading
The Pros and Cons of Spending Caps
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With all of the talk this week, and this budget season, about a new constitutionally mandated cap on state spending, we decided to take a wider view of the issue. On this morning's edition of The California Report, I reported … Continue reading
