One vote shy, state budget still in limbo Ending a weekend marathon of tense negotiations, bleary-eyed state lawmakers late Sunday suspended their bid to plug California's $41-billion deficit but vowed to continue working today to halt the state's dizzying slide toward financial collapse.
George Skelton: California's GOP lawmakers should do the budget math The math seems pretty simple. But apparently it's too rigorous for many Republican politicians.
She ran EBay, can she run California? I may be projecting a bit here, but I wonder if a certain desperation among the electorate won't be Meg Whitman's biggest advantage in the forthcoming race for governor of California.
California lawmakers fail to pass budget deal California legislators tried and failed for a second day Sunday to close a $40 billion hole in the state's budget, still one Republican vote short of approving a package that contains $14.3 billion in tax increases.
Budget pressure puts unions on the spot The week before Thanksgiving, Folsom's city manager sat down with that city's union representatives and laid out a bleak future: Sales tax was dropping, the budget shortfall was growing and layoffs were likely.
Dan Walters: No end in sight on budget Even jaded veterans of the Capitol's often bizarre internal politics had never seen anything quite like the weekend marathon over the biggest package of spending, spending cuts and taxes ever to hit the building – a spectacle that's still playing itself out with no end in sight.
Prop. 8 fallout doesn't daunt Ice cream shop's owner Sunday morning after church, Alan Leatherby thinks about ice cream.
California's budget: one vote shy; legislators to return today Despite weeks of painful negotiations and a sleepless weekend of marathon arm-twisting, California lawmakers failed to fix the budget and will have to return to the Capitol today to try to push through a sweeping plan to pull the state from the brink of insolvency.
Maldonado: The man in the middle of the budget debate Abel Maldonado, a moderate Republican lawmaker known for his quiet demeanor, took his seat in the chamber of the California Senate late Saturday, threatening to oppose the tax increases pushed by Democrats to solve the state's $40 billion budget deficit.
California's health policies ranked 46th State's cure for the problem is to do more of what caused it in the first place. Often government tries to fix what's wrong by imposing more of what caused the problem in the first place. Nowhere is this more apparent than health care.
state's push toward renewable energy can succeed.
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