Despite $12 Billion State Budget Shortfall, Newsom and California Dems Defer Major Spending Cuts

California Had Fun, Fun, Fun — Until Voters Took The T-Bird Away

Perhaps it is fitting that legendary Beach Boy and California native son Brian Wilson would pass away in the same year that a New York Times headline would ask, “Is the California Dream a Mirage?” The social, environmental and economic disaster that is California has been mushrooming for decades now, with any improvements in the near term looking about as likely as a working bullet train from the north to the south in that state. The litany of n…

Despite $12 billion state budget shortfall, Newsom and California Dems defer major spending cuts

Gavin Newsom and Democrats struck a $321 billion budget deal.

A ‘poison pill’ in California’s budget deal ties state spending to construction

In summary A state budget is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature, but it won’t take effect unless the Legislature makes changes to housing and infrastructure development rules that he has demanded. After days of confusion in which a deal with Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to unravel over his demand to include new housing and infrastructure regulations, the California Legislature passed an updated state budget on Friday. With the start o…

California budget breakdown: How it impacts your life, from Medi-Cal and education to fires

The state's fiscal year begins July 1. As California faces a shortfall in the billions, here's a look at what the budget proposes.

‘Poison pill’ in California’s budget deal ties state spending to construction

After days of confusion in which a deal with Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to unravel over his demand to include new housing and infrastructure regulations, the California Legislature passed an updated state budget on Friday.