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May 09, 2008 What if California Had a Normal Government by Which It Addressed the Budget Deficit?
May 08, 2008 Budget Confusion in California: How Big a Gap Do You Want It to Be?
May 07, 2008 Trickle of Cuts Led to Vallejo Declaring Bankruptcy
May 06, 2008 The California Budget Goes to Court
May 04, 2008 Here They Go Again: Senate Republicans Demand Gutting California’s Global Warming Law and Other Laws on the Books and Plan to Hold Up California Budget
May 03, 2008 The California Budget is Up for Grabs
May 02, 2008 A Community Pharmacist Speaks Out: What Med-Cal Cuts Passed Earlier This Year Means to My Patients—And the State of California
May 02, 2008 The Fate of Summer School in California Under Schwarzenegger’s Proposed Budget Cutbacks
May 01, 2008 California Public Support for Taxes Declines in Context of Recession
May 01, 2008 Understanding Republican Legislators’ Budget Proposals for California’s Schools—and What is Really Still Missing
April 30, 2008 How Exactly is a $20 Billion Deficit Good For Schwarzenegger?
April 29, 2008 California Health Care in Danger of Going to Hell in Hand Basket: Budget Subcommittees Consider Cuts But Hold Off—For Now
April 24, 2008 The Right-Wing Frame on Tax Solutions and Destruction of Services Californians Depend Upon
April 24, 2008 At the End of a Long Week of Democracy—Letters from Students on a Senator’s Door Tells a Story
April 21, 2008 California Revenues Continue to Fall - Deficit Could Swell Back to Over $14 Billion by End of 2008-09
April 15, 2008 California is Really Talking About a $25 Billion Deficit Now
April 14, 2008 The California Budget, the Costs of a Civil Society, and Myths Republican Legislators Would Have You Believe
April 14, 2008 CALIFORNIA BUDGET CRISIS REPORT CARD: Real Impact of Budget Cuts on Schools and Students
April 13, 2008 Students Aroused To Protect Public Education While Schwarzenegger Favors Private Schools
April 09, 2008 The California Budget Crisis and Words: Don't Like "Tax Increase"? Okay - Call It a "Budget Surge"
April 08, 2008 Governor Schwarzenegger Has Really Rattled the Cages with Proposed Cuts to California’s State Parks
April 08, 2008 Senate California Budget Hearings Find: Big Medi-Cal Cuts, Big Mistake
April 07, 2008 It is Time to Return Democracy to California’s Budget Process
April 04, 2008 California College Students Plan Day of Action on Budget Cuts
April 03, 2008 G.O.P. Assembly Leader Proposes To Save California Public Education Cuts Without New Taxes--By Shifting School Money From Democratic To Republican School Districts
April 03, 2008 Getting the Facts Straight on Per Pupil Spending in California
March 29, 2008 Democrats’ Budget Priorities Reflect California Values
March 27, 2008 Governor Says It Would Be "Big Mistake" To Blame Budget Deficit on Illegal Immigration
March 26, 2008 How Schwarzenegger and the G.O.P. Are Responsible for California’s Budget Mess
March 26, 2008 California’s Budget–A Time for Straight Talk on How We Got Here and Where We Should Go
March 26, 2008 Schrag: California Budget Reform Should Be Based on Democracy and Accountability, Not More Formulas
March 25, 2008 Governor Schwarzenegger and the Legislature Should Meet in an Open and Public Process on the State Budget
March 23, 2008 Are We Willing to Risk an Increase in Tuberculosis in California to Balance Our Budget Without Raising Taxes?
March 22, 2008 Keeping California’s State Parks and Beaches Open and Safe from Robocuts
March 21, 2008 The Differences Between Governor Schwarzenegger on the Budget and the District I Represent in the State Assembly
March 19, 2008 Family Values Bring Alameda Community Together to Save School Programs and Graphically Label Schwarzenegger Proposed Education Cuts as “Garbage”
March 19, 2008 California Can Save Billions on Our Prisons While Improving Them and Making Us Safer
March 18, 2008 Democracy, the California Budget, and the LAO
March 17, 2008 One Los Angeles Teacher’s Response to the Governor’s Education Budget Cuts
March 15, 2008 How Closing Big Oil Tax Loopholes Will Keep Class Sizes Small for California Students
March 14, 2008 Too Many Pink Slips for California Teachers We Need to Keep
March 14, 2008 Oil Tax Defeated, School Budget to Be Cut -- What You Can Do
March 13, 2008 California Republican Party Changes Name to The California Yacht AND Oil Party
March 13, 2008 Give Arnold a Pink Slip
March 12, 2008 San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Against California Oil Severance Tax is Wrong on Economics and Hypocritical
March 09, 2008 Spontaneous Flashpoints Erupt on What California State Budget Cuts Mean to Local Schools
March 09, 2008 Californians Coming Together to Prevent Budget Cuts to Vital Services
March 08, 2008 Why California Democrats are Fighting to Preserve Vital Education Spending
March 07, 2008 Message to Schwarzenegger—Don’t Use School Kids to Bridge Budget Gap
March 06, 2008 Speaking Out Against Schwarzenegger's Budget Cuts to Education
March 06, 2008 California is Robbing the Poor to Pay Thurston Howell III
March 06, 2008 A Line in the Sand -- Stop Cutting California School Budgets
March 05, 2008 Harbinger of Budget Cuts to California Schools: Mass Student Walkout in Alameda
March 05, 2008 Legislative Democrats Come Out Very Strong on the California Budget
March 04, 2008 The Mythic Role of the Legislative Analyst in Decisions on the California State Budget
March 02, 2008 Why Must the California Budget Deficit Be Closed on the Backs of Teachers and Students?
March 01, 2008 Proposed California Budget Would Hurt the Poor, Elderly and Disabled, Reduce Health Care Services, and Throw Away a Billion Dollars in Federal Funds
February 27, 2008 A “Little Story” That Speaks Volumes About California State Budget Cuts and Our Twisted Priorities
February 27, 2008 Schrag: Legislative Analyst--Governor’s California Budget Proposal Isn’t Serious
February 26, 2008 Tax ‘Expenditures’ Should Be Part of the California Budget Debate
February 24, 2008 California’s Has a Structural Revenue Shortfall, Not a Spending Problem
February 23, 2008 A Balanced Approach to Fixing California’s Budget Deficit—This Year and Beyond
February 23, 2008 Sound Advice: Analysis of Schwarzenegger Proposed Budget Recommends Avoiding Cuts to Environmental Programs, Making Polluters Pay
February 20, 2008 Hundreds of Disabled and Seniors at Capitol to Protest California Budget Cuts to Life Sustaining Services and Income
February 19, 2008 Schwarzenegger Rhetoric Today on Budget Doesn’t Match Reality Including Republican Assembly Vote Against Closing Yacht Tax Loophole
February 19, 2008 Dos and Don’ts of Coping with State Budget Crises: California is Not Alone
February 19, 2008 Framing the California Budget Crisis as the Product of Locked-in Spending
February 17, 2008 Perata’s Passionate Floor Speech on California Mid-year Budget Cuts
February 15, 2008 Failure to Repeal California Yacht Tax Loophole Mars Otherwise Bipartisan Day Dealing with California’s Budget Crisis
February 15, 2008 The California Budget Crisis Hit Home Today
February 14, 2008 Bipartisanship Breaks Out on California Budget: Bills to Pass Tomorrow on This Year’s Deficit
February 14, 2008 Big Bite Out of California’s Health System Passed by Senate Budget Committee
February 10, 2008 With Courage and Commonsense, California Doesn’t Have to Balance the Budget with a Meat-Axe Wielded at Children and the Vulnerable
February 05, 2008 California Senate Hearing Considers $1.6 Billion in Proposed Health Budget Cuts
February 01, 2008 Uncollected Taxes: The Real California Budget Deficit
January 18, 2008 Cuts in California Residential Care Facility Inspections a Clear and Present Danger to Elders
January 16, 2008 Schrag: Schwarzenegger, FDR, and the Wolf at the Door
January 15, 2008 A California Budget “Shock Attack”
January 15, 2008 California Legislative Analyst: State Budget Woes as Bad as Governor Says—But There Are Better Way to Solve Problem
January 12, 2008 Perata: Governor’s Proposed Budget Begs Question—What Kind of State do We Want?
January 12, 2008 California Democratic Radio Address Discusses the Repercussions of the Governor’s Budget Proposal
January 11, 2008 The Dirty Details on the California Budget: Health Cuts Would Impact Millions
January 11, 2008 Californians Need to Be Aware of Immediate Budget Cuts Proposed—There Are Some Real Shockers Here
January 11, 2008 Garamendi: Governor's 2008 - 09 Budget Does Not Meet Needs of California
January 10, 2008 California Schools Chief Says Schwarzenegger Budget Will Lead to “Year of Education Evisceration”
January 10, 2008 Schwarzenegger Cuts Funding for Elderly, Blind, and Disabled Californians in Proposed State Budget
January 09, 2008 Schwarzenegger’s Spending Cap is Pure Bunkum – But It Gave the Press Corps Something to Write About in Otherwise Vacuous ‘State of the State’
January 09, 2008 The Myths, Rhetoric, and Reality in Schwarzenegger’s State of the State Speech This Year
December 19, 2007 California is Fighting an "Emergency" With One Hand Tied Behind Our Backs
November 15, 2007 "Google Government"--New Report Calls for Greater Transparency in the California State Budget
November 15, 2007 Next Year's California Budget Deficit of $10 Billion and the Most Vulnerable in Our State
November 09, 2007 California's Busted State Budget
October 03, 2007 The California Budget Impasse: Political Chicanery or Democracy in Action?
September 05, 2007 This Year's California State Budget: Third in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl--The Trailer Bills
August 31, 2007 Budget Cuts Only Deepen Our Resolve for a World-class Transportation System in California
August 30, 2007 Broken Process Yields a Bad Budget for California
August 30, 2007 Perata: With Ballot Box Mandates on Spending, Elected Leaders are not in Charge of What We Spend in California--The Need for Budget Reform
August 29, 2007 This Year's California State Budget: Second in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl--Cuts and Non-budget Demands by Republican Senators
August 27, 2007 The First of More than $3 Billion in Late Payments Printed and Mailed Today
August 27, 2007 This Year's California State Budget: A Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl
August 26, 2007 Mental Health Budget Cuts: "Rehabilitation is Cheaper than Incarceration--Dignity is Priceless
August 25, 2007 Priorities and Values in California State Budget: Cuts for Mental Health Program to Help Homeless--While Allowing Tax Break for Yacht and Private Plane Owners
August 25, 2007 Health Cuts By Governor Schwarzenegger in Signing California Budget Include Prescription Drug Program Touted on "Meet the Press " as a Major Success
August 25, 2007 Education Wins and Losses in the California State Budget for the 2007-08 School Year
August 24, 2007 Schwarzenegger Signs California State Budget, But Not Before Cutting Mental Health, Medi-Cal, and Discount Prescription Programs
August 24, 2007 CALIFORNIA STATE BUDGET HOLD-UP ENDS: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EXAMINED
August 24, 2007 California Senate Republicans’ Budget Play A Real Flop
August 22, 2007 Perata Unchained on the California Budget
August 22, 2007 Perata Proposes Establishing California Budget Reform Panel
August 21, 2007 BREAKING NEWS: STATE BUDGET PASSES 27-13
August 21, 2007 Breaking News: California Senate in Process of Passing State Budget; Attorney General Jerry Brown Announces Settlement of Global Warming Suit with San Bernardino County
August 21, 2007 Negotiating 101 and the California Budget: It Isn't Supposed to be Metaphysical
August 21, 2007 The California State Budget: Comments From Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez Late Last Night
August 20, 2007 Waiting for a California State Budget in the Capitol—Scenes from a Fellini Movie
August 20, 2007 California Budget Deal May be Near: CEQA Changes Demanded by Republican Senators May Be in the Offing
August 20, 2007 Parallels Between Blockage of California Budget by Senate Republicans and Ill-fated Gingrich Shutdown of Federal Government in 1995
August 19, 2007 The California Budget, Presidential Politics, and Health Care
August 17, 2007 Accountability for Obstruction of the California State Budget: Recall of Senator Denham and How the Process Can Be Made Better
August 16, 2007 Vacation Themed Rally for California Budget at the State Capitol
August 15, 2007 No California Budget, No Government? Lost the Last Election? None Dare Call it Obstructionism
August 14, 2007 Tonight's Dinner? Central Valley Senator Jeff Denham (R-Modesto).
August 14, 2007 New Field Poll of California Voters on Budget: Most Say It's a Serious Problem and Tend to Blame Republicans
August 14, 2007 Republican State Senators Holding up the California Budget Should Get Their Facts Straight on California Environmental Laws and Who We Elected to Enforce Them
August 14, 2007 Reform the California Budget Process to Restore Majority Rule and Accountability
August 13, 2007 California State Budget Needed Now So Prenatal Health Clinics Can Remain Open
August 13, 2007 Republican Senators: Listen to Your Constituents, Represent California Values, and Pass the Budget
August 12, 2007 Finally--Schwarzenegger to Arouse Public on the California Budget
August 11, 2007 Schwarzenegger Director of Finance, Former Senate Republican Staffer, Says Budget Should Have Been Passed Weeks Ago
August 10, 2007 California’s Republican Director of Finance Targets G.O.P. Senator Denham’s Refusal to Support Governor’s Budget--“Hard to Understand”?!
August 10, 2007 Failure to Agree on the California State Budget: Obstinacy or Principle?
August 10, 2007 Rolling Back a Ronald Reagan Era Environmental Law: How the Message Now Getting Through on the California Budget Impasse May Help Us Later
August 09, 2007 14 White Men Hold California Budget Hostage
August 09, 2007 Impact of California State Budget Delay on the Disabled and Seniors
August 09, 2007 Representing His District: Abel Maldonado—The Only Republican Senator So Far to Vote for the California State Budget
August 08, 2007 Speaker Nunez Advises Senate Republican Leader to End to Budget “Blockade”, Reveals Assembly Democratic Caucus Unease with Budget Concessions Already Made
August 08, 2007 California State Budget Crisis: Fiscal Responsibility—More Than Just Balancing a Budget
August 07, 2007 Effects of the California Budget Blockage on Our Readers
August 06, 2007 What is Really Going on with the California State Budget—From the Perspective of a Former Legislator
August 05, 2007 Recall Petitions Being Readied for Senator Jeff Denham, Republican Holdout on California State Budget
August 03, 2007 BEE COLUMNIST URGES FURTHER BUDGET DELAY--LEGISLATURE SHOULD ‘START OVER’ REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
August 03, 2007 Republicans Hold California Budget Hostage to Slow Progress on Global Warming
August 02, 2007 LOW-INCOME FAMILIES PROTEST CALIFORNIA STATE BUDGET DEADLOCK: A Prelude to How Many State Senators Will be Greeted When They Get Home
August 02, 2007 CEQA, GLOBAL WARMING, REPUBLICANS AND THE STATE BUDGET
August 02, 2007 No California State Budget Despite Defection of One Republican State Senator and Pledge from Governor Schwarzenegger to Reduce “Operating Deficit” to Zero by Line Item Vetoes
August 01, 2007 Statement of Governor Schwarzenegger on Failure by California Senate to Pass State Budget
August 01, 2007 Perata Hopeful About Tonight’s Vote on California State Budget
August 01, 2007 Will Brinksmanship on California State Budget Come to an End in Tonight’s Senate Vote?
July 30, 2007 The Governor's Birthday Present--With Love From His Party
July 30, 2007 Ignoring the Lessons of History, Dan Walters Urges Appeasement of Republicans to Resolve Budget Deadlock
July 27, 2007 The Latest on the California Budget from Senator Perata
July 27, 2007 THE ‘UNIT RULE’, OUTLAWED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY 50 YEARS AGO, RESURFACES AS A TOOL TO SUPPRESS MODERATES IN THE G.O.P.
July 27, 2007 Senate Republican Budget Move to Gut the California Environmental Quality Act Raises Larger Questions
July 26, 2007 California State Budget Crisis: Many Programs and Services Won't Be Paid, Including Those for Seniors, Children and Adults With Disabilities
July 26, 2007 Behind the California's Budget Delay: Republican Senators Want Attorney General Brown to Delay Enforcing California Global Warming Laws Unitil 2012
July 25, 2007 California Republican Senators Target Kids of Welfare Recipients and Public Transit for Biggest Proposed Budget Cuts
July 25, 2007 Senate Republicans Propose Abandoning Voters’ Drug Treatment Program in California Budget Fight
July 24, 2007 Preview of Tomorrow's Budget Battle: Ackerman Reveals that Global Warming Regulations, California's Environmental Laws, and Tying the Hands of Attorney General Jerry Brown Are Part of What Senate Republicans Are After
July 23, 2007 Is the California Budget Being Held Up So Republican Senators Can Show How Tough They Can Be?
July 22, 2007 The California State Budget: Structural Problems and Real Impacts on People
July 22, 2007 SEE THE HEADLINES? SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK CALIFORNIA’S BUDGET. (WELL, THAT CAN BE FIXED!)
July 22, 2007 California Budget Impasse Belongs to Senate Republicans and is Beginning to Rot Like Trash Not Picked Up
July 22, 2007 Perata Letter to Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman on the California State Budget
July 21, 2007 The Inside Story: Perata in His Own Words on the California Budget Process and Results
July 21, 2007 Dramatic Moment in California State Budget Impasse: Perata Tells Republican Senators to Write Budget Democrats Can Support, Saying "We Have No Freaking Idea Where You Want to Go"
July 21, 2007 California State Senators Spend the Night Together--Still No Budget
July 20, 2007 Perata to California Senate: “We’ll Be Here Til We Get a Budget … We Will Be Around to Talk About Pancakes and Sausages for Breakfast”
July 20, 2007 Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez on the California State Budget
July 20, 2007 California Assembly Passes State Budget with Republicans Getting $1.2 Billion Taken From Transit, 4 Month Delay in COLA for Disabled and Seniors, Cut in Prop 36 Drug Treatment Funds
July 20, 2007 Initial Analysis of the Budget Passed by the California State Assembly
July 19, 2007 My Bet is for a California State Budget This Weekend--Something's Happening Here, What It is Ain't Exactly Clear
July 19, 2007 A Conversation in the Park with Republican Senate Leader Ackerman on the California Budget
July 18, 2007 No Vote on the California State Budget, But Some Interesting Developments: Tasty Morsels from the Hallways of the Capitol
July 18, 2007 California G.O.P. Legislative Leaders “Slip Out the Back Door” to Avoid Media Questions About Proposed $400,000,000 Cut to Schools?
July 17, 2007 California State Budget: If Anybody Knows How It Will Come Out, They Aren't Talking Now--But Will Have Some Explaining to do Tomorrow
July 16, 2007 REPUBLICANS BLOCK THE GOVERNOR’S BUDGET – AGAIN – TO LEVERAGE NON-BUDGET ISSUES
July 13, 2007 Playing a Game of Chicken in the Dark on the California State Budget
July 12, 2007 Why We Don't Have a California Budget: Republican Naysayers Play Games While We Get Lassie vs. Bob Barker
June 30, 2007 A Balanced, Fair, and Responsible California Budget Ready for Senate and Assembly Floor Votes
June 16, 2007 Progress Made on the California State Budget: Your Money and Values
June 15, 2007 What is Really Going On in the California Budget Negotiations?
May 31, 2007 Making State Dollars Go Farther for Planned Parenthood and Neighborhood Health Clinics
May 31, 2007 Californians Want Higher Taxes and More Services and Other Findings of PPIC Poll State Revenues and Budget
May 19, 2007 Getting California to a Fair Budget Will Require "Shared Solutions" in Key Areas Says Assembly Budget Chair in Democratic Radio Address
May 18, 2007 A UC Student's Plea to the Legislature on Fee Increases and Cuts in Academic Preparation in Governor Schwarzenegger’s Revised Budget
May 17, 2007 Who Has the Moral Compass for Values We Need in the California Budget Fight?
May 16, 2007 Republicans Prefer Deficit Spending to Taxes and Democrats Deficit Spending to Cuts in School Spending--Analyst Liz Hill and Bee Columnist Dan Walters Disagree
May 15, 2007 Spending Changes in Governor Schwarzenegger's May Revise of 2007-08 California Budget: A Detailed Analysis by Category
May 15, 2007 Assembly Speaker Nunez Says State Budget Proposal is "Reminiscent of Pre-post-partisanship Governor" and "Out of Sync" With California Values
May 15, 2007 Perata Speaks "Democratese" About Schwarzenegger Budget Revision
May 14, 2007 GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER UNDERMINES CRUCIAL HOME CARE PROGRAM
January 28, 2007 Californians Want Their State Government to Spend More Money and Provide More Services, According to Poll
January 13, 2007 California Assembly Budget Chair John Laird Discusses the Governor’s State of the State, the Budget, and Bipartisanship in Democratic Weekly Radio Address
January 11, 2007 What the Governor's Budget Means to Californians and Democratic Party Values
January 11, 2007 California Republican Legislators Voice Different Views on the State Budget
January 11, 2007 The California Budget: Health in Particular
December 01, 2006 O'Connell's Approach to Education Funding Should be the Way We Look at All of California Government
August 21, 2006 Resources and Environmental Protection in the California Budget: Part of a Series of Essays By Sheila Kuehl
July 25, 2006 Prisons and Transportation in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl
July 18, 2006 Social Services in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl
July 17, 2006 Health in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl
July 15, 2006 Higher Education in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl
July 14, 2006 K-12 Education in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl
July 08, 2006 The California State Budget in Context: A Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl
July 03, 2006 Some Republican Legislators Have Never Voted for a California Budget
July 01, 2006 State Budget ‘Compassionate and Responsible’ Says Speaker
June 28, 2006 Observations on Passage of the California State Budget
June 26, 2006 Children Are Apparently the Losers in the California State Budget Fight
June 26, 2006 “Fab Four” Leaders of California Legislature Announce Budget Agreement
June 26, 2006 Proposition 36 May Be Gutted As Part of California State Budget Deal
June 19, 2006 A Budget Worth the Wait
June 17, 2006 Chair of Assembly Budget Committee Says Republicans Have "Agenda of Roadblock" on Califonia State Budget
June 17, 2006 BUDGET BLUES: CHILDREN'S COVERAGE IN SPOTLIGHT
June 15, 2006 Absence of Live TV Coverage Might Cause California Budget To Be Passed On Time
June 15, 2006 Top 10 Reasons Why Republicans Refuse to Vote on State Budget by June 15th
June 14, 2006 Taxes and the California Budget: The “Roach Motel” Effect
June 13, 2006 Don’t Expect a State Budget on Thursday
June 13, 2006 California State Budget Update: Two Days Before the Vote
May 12, 2006 Senate Leader Perata’s Thoughtful Statement on Revised Budget Proposed by Governor
May 12, 2006 Governor’s Revised Budget Pays Back Schools But Rips Off Transit Riders
May 12, 2006 Assembly Democrats Respond to Proposed State Budget Revisions
May 12, 2006 Elderly and Disabled Spared From Proposed Cuts in Budget Revise
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