| Date | Title |
| November 03, 2009 |
Report Shows Longer Wait Times at DMV Due to Furloughs |
| October 17, 2009 |
Studies Show Furloughs Not Saving State |
| October 15, 2009 |
In a Democracy The Majority Rules |
| October 14, 2009 |
The Volatility Monster—Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid |
| October 13, 2009 |
Saving California |
| October 12, 2009 |
State Revenues Continue Sharp Drop Bigger Budget Deficit Feared For 2010-2011 |
| October 12, 2009 |
CAVALA: Legislature Victim Of Yet Another ‘Cheap Shot’? |
| October 09, 2009 |
Getting Rid of the Baby As Well As the Bath Water |
| October 08, 2009 |
Vote Yes--Or Else |
| October 05, 2009 |
The Failed State of California? |
| October 02, 2009 |
Lawsuit Seeking to Stop IHSS Cuts Filed in Federal Court |
| October 01, 2009 |
Lawsuit To Be Filed In Federal Court Thursday To Stop Ihss Cuts |
| September 24, 2009 |
How to Evaluate the COTCE Proposals |
| September 24, 2009 |
Winning the Battle on Majority Rule |
| September 23, 2009 |
State Park Cuts Lack Logic |
| September 22, 2009 |
Article Repeats Right-Wing Myth About State Spending |
| September 18, 2009 |
Skelton Criticizes Republicans As Extortionists |
| September 12, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Speaker Bass Discusses Legislative Accomplishments to Help California in Tough Year |
| September 11, 2009 |
PPIC: Californians Want Change But Approach Reform Cautiously |
| August 26, 2009 |
Growing Our Deficits |
| August 21, 2009 |
Tough Action Needed to Fix California |
| August 11, 2009 |
Steinberg Files Suit Against Governor |
| August 08, 2009 |
The Governor is No Emperor |
| August 07, 2009 |
Requiring the Oil Industry to Pay its "Fair Share" |
| August 07, 2009 |
Offshore Drilling Not the Way To Go for Revenue |
| August 06, 2009 |
Leg Counsel: Governor’s Veto Illegal |
| August 06, 2009 |
Budget Essay 13: Women & Children First! oops: no lifeboats.... |
| August 06, 2009 |
Governor Exceeded Authority Under State Constitution With Most Of His Line Item Vetoes |
| August 04, 2009 |
Governor Continues to Push Ambitious Agenda Despite Low Point in Approval |
| August 03, 2009 |
California's July Budget Blues: ...For A Man May Smile and Smile and Still Be A Villain |
| August 03, 2009 |
Perpetuating Budget Myths |
| August 03, 2009 |
Lack of Investment |
| August 01, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Assembly Democratic Caucus Chair John A. Pérez Calls Governor’s Vetoes Illegal |
| July 31, 2009 |
Legislators Challenge Governor Over ‘Crippling, Cascading’ AIDS Cuts |
| July 31, 2009 |
Time For the Democratic Majority To Stand Up for Democratic Ideals |
| July 30, 2009 |
Caucus Chairs Calls Immediate Restoration of $487.2 million in Cuts Made Illegally by Schwarzenegger |
| July 30, 2009 |
How They Voted |
| July 30, 2009 |
Stopping the Governor's Vetoes |
| July 29, 2009 |
Cavala: Know When To Fold Em |
| July 29, 2009 |
Governor's Line-Item Cuts Devastate California Health Care |
| July 29, 2009 |
Long-Term Solutions Deferred in Latest Chapter of California State Budget Saga |
| July 29, 2009 |
Governor's Priorities Clear |
| July 28, 2009 |
Protestors, Legislators Question Governor's Veto Power |
| July 28, 2009 |
Valuing Rectitude |
| July 26, 2009 |
Nothing to Cheer About with New Budget |
| July 25, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Fuentes Highlight Services Saved in Budget Despite Two-Thirds Budget Vote Requirement |
| July 24, 2009 |
Breaking News: Budget Passed |
| July 24, 2009 |
Senate Passes Budget |
| July 24, 2009 |
Assembly Passes Budget, Senate Nears Budget Vote |
| July 23, 2009 |
An Appeasement Budget |
| July 23, 2009 |
New Budget Plan Takes California Backwards |
| July 22, 2009 |
The Shame of the Democrats |
| July 21, 2009 |
Devastating Cuts for Education, the Poor, Health Care, and Local Governments |
| July 20, 2009 |
Budget Agreement Postponed |
| July 20, 2009 |
Cuts That Will Cost California More in the Long Run |
| July 19, 2009 |
No 'Short Term Relief' For State Workers In Budget Deal |
| July 19, 2009 |
Will There Be A Budget Deal Today? |
| July 17, 2009 |
State Workers Will Vote For Strike |
| July 16, 2009 |
CCPOA Joins SEIU In Approving Strike Authorization Vote |
| July 16, 2009 |
Schwarzenegger’s Decision to Ignore $34 Billion of Waste Associated with Private Contractors is No Accident |
| July 16, 2009 |
Budget Deals Stall Amid Education Funding Hold Up |
| July 15, 2009 |
Flat Taxers on the March |
| July 14, 2009 |
Sick Out Rumor 'Not True,' Says SEIU Leader |
| July 14, 2009 |
What Next? Eliminating Bus Drivers? |
| July 14, 2009 |
Mean-spirited or Just Plain Mean? |
| July 12, 2009 |
State Workers Vow to Fight Additional Pay Cuts and Furlough Days |
| July 12, 2009 |
Governor Arnold Continues To Tea Bag California |
| July 11, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Evans, De León Call for Focus on Budget |
| July 10, 2009 |
Governor Responds to State Workers Threat of Strike |
| July 10, 2009 |
State Worker Strike Authorization Vote May Be Imminent |
| July 10, 2009 |
PPIC Report Finds Poor Leave California At Much Higher Rate Than Rich |
| July 09, 2009 |
Governor: 'Time Has Come, Day Is Now' for CalWORKS Reckoning |
| July 09, 2009 |
Human Beings At the Core of Budget Crisis |
| July 08, 2009 |
California’s Five Wannabes |
| July 08, 2009 |
Advocates Call Governor’s CalWORKs Claims ‘False’ |
| July 07, 2009 |
Governor Targets In-home Supportive Services while Speaker Boycotts Meetings |
| July 07, 2009 |
Arnold's Bathtub |
| July 06, 2009 |
California Deserves Better |
| July 06, 2009 |
California’s Self-Inflicted Wounds |
| July 02, 2009 |
Same Governor, Different Goals |
| July 02, 2009 |
Assemblymember Evans Sets the Record Straight |
| July 02, 2009 |
Governor’s Actions Lead To Unnecessary and Premature Crisis |
| July 02, 2009 |
Governor Scapegoats Dedicated Homecare Providers |
| July 01, 2009 |
Schwarzenegger Threatens to Shut Down the State |
| July 01, 2009 |
Republicans Refuse to Support Cash Crisis Bills—We Now Go To Crisis and IOUs |
| July 01, 2009 |
Without Compromise |
| June 30, 2009 |
Oil and Tobacco Taxes: In Search of a More Moral State Budget |
| June 30, 2009 |
As Deadline Approaches, Governor Acknowledges No Backup Plan |
| June 30, 2009 |
Dissent Needed Against Injustices of Budget Cuts |
| June 30, 2009 |
Our Policies Disrespect Our Elders |
| June 29, 2009 |
Assembly Passes Majority Vote Budget Bills |
| June 29, 2009 |
How We Got Here |
| June 28, 2009 |
Time Running Out on Prospects for State to Avoid Catastrophe |
| June 28, 2009 |
Judge Blocks IHSS Worker Wage Cut |
| June 27, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Evans, Fuentes Disappointed as Senate Republicans Block Budget Solutions |
| June 26, 2009 |
We Thought We had Problems |
| June 24, 2009 |
Democratic Budget Goes to Vote Today |
| June 23, 2009 |
Dances, Drills and Defiance |
| June 23, 2009 |
A Message to Constituents on Budget Crisis |
| June 23, 2009 |
Has California Reached Its Rock-Bottom Moment? |
| June 22, 2009 |
Cal Grant Program is Vital to the Education of Underprivileged Students |
| June 18, 2009 |
Democratic Plan to Balance the Budget Introduced |
| June 18, 2009 |
The Alcohol Industry Fights to Preserve an Antiquated Tax Structure |
| June 17, 2009 |
An Electorate Without Citizenship |
| June 17, 2009 |
Conference Committee Closes Budget Gap with Cuts and Revenues |
| June 17, 2009 |
Eliminate Enterprise Zone Tax Breaks |
| June 16, 2009 |
Republican Freshman Legislator in Union Crosshairs |
| June 16, 2009 |
All Cuts Were Not Created Equal |
| June 14, 2009 |
Budget Cuts Threaten the Lives of The Most Vulnerable in California |
| June 13, 2009 |
Speaker Pushes For Public Support of Revenue Proposals During Virtual Meeting |
| June 13, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Pérez Highlight Assembly Democratic Commitment to Fight for Families, Keep Safety Net |
| June 12, 2009 |
May/June Budget Blues, part Two: California Is Terminated |
| June 12, 2009 |
Governor’s Policies Threat Termination of California |
| June 11, 2009 |
MIDDAY REPORT: Broad Coalition Demands End to Corporate Tax Loophole |
| June 11, 2009 |
Governor’s Budget Proposals Mirror Third World Structural Adjustment Policies |
| June 11, 2009 |
Can Instant Run Off Voting Save Us from Our Budget Madness? |
| June 11, 2009 |
Chiang: State Coffers Worse Than Expected, Painful Cuts Inevitable |
| June 10, 2009 |
Will Fiscal Misery Wake Us Up? |
| June 08, 2009 |
Corporate Tax Breaks in Last Budget Deals Benefit Few, Says Report |
| June 08, 2009 |
Budget Committee Unwilling to Implement Draconian Cuts |
| June 06, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Budget Conference Committee Members Blumenfield, De León Discuss Budget, Reforms |
| June 05, 2009 |
Alternative Budget Proposal Pushes For Reform Rather than Simply Cuts |
| June 04, 2009 |
Public Comment Period Concludes for the Conference Committee |
| June 03, 2009 |
Proposed Park Closures Called 'Draconian' |
| June 03, 2009 |
Firing Groundskeepers Won’t Fix The Budget Mess |
| June 03, 2009 |
Governor Tells Legislature "California's Day Of Reckoning Is Here" |
| June 02, 2009 |
New Budget Essay One: the "Meaning" of the Prop 1A Vote |
| June 02, 2009 |
Republicans: California's for the Rich! Poor People Get Out Now! |
| June 01, 2009 |
Governor Targets Only Low-Income Californians |
| June 01, 2009 |
Budget Impacts Will Be Felt By All |
| May 31, 2009 |
Controller Warns of State’s Cash Flow Emergency |
| May 30, 2009 |
Cavala: With Billions At Stake, City Officials Rendezvous In Luxury Accommodations (At Taxpayer Expense) |
| May 29, 2009 |
Budget Links Between the State and Local Governments |
| May 27, 2009 |
Governor Proposes New Massive $5.5 Billion In Cuts |
| May 26, 2009 |
Governor Hears Only What He Wants To and Disregards the Rest |
| May 25, 2009 |
Who Won the Election Last Week? |
| May 25, 2009 |
With Leadership Failing, Only the People Remain To Act |
| May 23, 2009 |
Survey Suggests Results of Election Should Not Be Interpreted As A Tax Revolt |
| May 22, 2009 |
Special Election II Flops: Battle for the Budget Begins Anew |
| May 21, 2009 |
Budget Process Laid Forth |
| May 21, 2009 |
What’s Next: What Does the Election Mean? |
| May 20, 2009 |
State Budget Deficit Swells To Over $21 Billion With Defeat Of 5 Ballot Measures |
| May 20, 2009 |
Low Voter Turnout Rebukes Costly Special Election, Says to Governor, Legislators: Get Back to Work |
| May 19, 2009 |
Budget Conference Committee To Meet Thursday |
| May 19, 2009 |
The Ghosts of Reagan and Jarvis |
| May 16, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Coto Discuss Budget Situation, Highlight Assembly Budget Action |
| May 12, 2009 |
Budget Deficit Now Over $15 Billion Massive Cuts Seem Certain To Come |
| May 09, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Torrico Discuss LAO Cash Flow Report |
| May 08, 2009 |
PPIC Report: Five Ballot Measures Trail - Interest in May Election Ballot Increases And So Does Opposition |
| May 08, 2009 |
The Consent of the Governed |
| May 07, 2009 |
LAO Reports Devastating News For California’s Budget |
| May 07, 2009 |
Proposition 1B: Restoration of Education Funding – NO |
| May 06, 2009 |
Proposition 1A: State Budget Stabilization – YES |
| May 06, 2009 |
Essay Seven: Props 1D, 1E and 1F |
| May 05, 2009 |
California Needs Propositions 1a-1f to Protect Schools, Health Care And Public Safety From Devastating Cuts And Layoffs |
| May 05, 2009 |
Essay Six: Props 1A, 1B and 1C |
| May 04, 2009 |
California Budget part five: How Abel Raised Cain |
| May 03, 2009 |
A Look At Spending Caps |
| May 01, 2009 |
Props 1D and 1E – Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing |
| April 30, 2009 |
CTA Supports the May 19 Ballot Initiatives |
| April 27, 2009 |
Senate Majority Leader Warns: “Education will take the single largest hit its ever taken in its history” |
| April 24, 2009 |
PDLA Urges a No Vote on the Initiatives |
| April 23, 2009 |
Bass Withdraws Pay Increases |
| April 22, 2009 |
Props 1A-1E, A True Plan |
| April 21, 2009 |
How Prop 1A is Being Packaged |
| April 10, 2009 |
Structural Changes Needed to Change the Budget Picture |
| April 07, 2009 |
Reverse Historic Trends in California by Taxing the Rich |
| April 02, 2009 |
Republican Feud: Maldonado Attacks Poizner in Scathing Letter |
| April 01, 2009 |
AB 53 and AB1 Would Freeze State Salaries Above $150,000 |
| April 01, 2009 |
Runaway, Budget-Busting Runoffs |
| March 31, 2009 |
California Budget Part 4: The One Vote Short Budget |
| March 28, 2009 |
Trigger Does Not Go Through and Its Costly For Many Californians |
| March 23, 2009 |
Presenting the Magical Mystery Majority Budget |
| March 20, 2009 |
Examining Impacts of Prop 1A |
| March 14, 2009 |
From Bad To Worse: California Faces Yet Another Round of Cuts |
| March 14, 2009 |
Legislative Analyst Says Revenues Dropping, New Budget Gap Of Over $8 Billion Projected |
| March 13, 2009 |
California Budget Part Two: December doldrums |
| March 06, 2009 |
California Budget - What Happened Last Fall |
| March 06, 2009 |
Prop 1A Undergoes Court Mandates Changes |
| March 05, 2009 |
Misplaced Priorities in California State Budget Saga (Again) |
| March 04, 2009 |
Response to Cavala: The Call of a Constitutional Convention |
| March 04, 2009 |
Comparing the 2009 California Reforms |
| March 03, 2009 |
Budget Reform Being Compromised |
| March 01, 2009 |
What Does Seven Billion in Educational Cuts Look Like? |
| February 28, 2009 |
New Budget Contains Regressive Tax Increases |
| February 27, 2009 |
Cavala: Media Pundits Join Cavalcade of Those Who Would Circumvent The Constitution To Change It |
| February 27, 2009 |
Budget and Legislature Suffer From Low Approval Ratings |
| February 27, 2009 |
Budget Update #4--Medi-Cal, Other Health Services, & Mental Health Services |
| February 27, 2009 |
Governor Lauds Introduction of Peripheral Canal and Dams Bill |
| February 26, 2009 |
Ashburn Speaks Out |
| February 26, 2009 |
Budget Update #3: Senior (Aging) Programs |
| February 25, 2009 |
Budget Update #2 On SSI/SSP, IHSS, CAPI, Transportation, & Calworks Programs |
| February 24, 2009 |
Cavala: The “Two-Thirds” Vote Requirement for Passing California’s Budget |
| February 24, 2009 |
Budget Update on Regional Centers and Special Education |
| February 22, 2009 |
Republicans Able to Exact Disproportionate Influence on State Budget |
| February 22, 2009 |
Governor’s Budget Slashes Environmental and Health Protections |
| February 21, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Budget Vote Requirement Needs to be Changed |
| February 21, 2009 |
It is Time To End the 2/3rds Rule |
| February 20, 2009 |
California Budget: Big Business is Only Winner |
| February 20, 2009 |
California Alliance for Jobs Applauds Legislature for Passing Budget |
| February 19, 2009 |
Democratic Leaders Express Relief Rather Than Celebration |
| February 19, 2009 |
Advocacy is about Lives that Matter |
| February 19, 2009 |
Budget Passes: Maldonado Casts Deciding Vote |
| February 18, 2009 |
California In Need of Its Own Sullenberger To Save It |
| February 18, 2009 |
Cogdill Replaced by More Strident Hollingsworth as Budget Stand-Off Continues |
| February 18, 2009 |
Eliminating State Oversight Board is the Wrong Reform |
| February 18, 2009 |
Cavala: Failure Of The ‘Big 5’ Budget Package Will Force Schwarzenegger’s Reconsideration Of Majority Vote ‘Fee’ Hikes |
| February 17, 2009 |
State Remains in Fiscal Peril As Budget Impasse Continues |
| February 17, 2009 |
Budget Situation Impacts California Jobs |
| February 17, 2009 |
The Impact of Maldonado’s Demands |
| February 16, 2009 |
Valentine’s Day Massacre Becomes a Hostage Situation |
| February 16, 2009 |
Republican Obstructionists Block the Budget Deal |
| February 16, 2009 |
Bill Still Stalled Focus is On Senator Maldonado |
| February 15, 2009 |
Budget Passes Assembly Stalled in the Senate |
| February 15, 2009 |
Speaker Bass’ Floor Remarks on the Floor of the Senate |
| February 14, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Compromise Budget Needed to End Cash Crisis |
| February 14, 2009 |
Republicans Succeed in Weakening Environmental and Labor Protections in Budget |
| February 14, 2009 |
Billions Sent to California for Federal Stimulus Plan |
| February 13, 2009 |
State Budget Requires Public Democracy Not a Cone of Silence |
| February 13, 2009 |
State Considers Health Care Spending Cap |
| February 13, 2009 |
As Budget Deal Nears Details Emerge |
| February 13, 2009 |
Roll Call on the Budget |
| February 12, 2009 |
Votes For Budget Deal Do Not Appear To Be There |
| February 12, 2009 |
Final Budget Deal Emerging |
| February 11, 2009 |
Governor’s Forced Furloughs Did Not Save the Economy |
| February 11, 2009 |
Advocates Must Continue to Move |
| February 10, 2009 |
No Free Lunch |
| February 09, 2009 |
Cavala: Memorable Week Ahead in the Capitol |
| February 08, 2009 |
Republican Vote Trading Allegations Spawns Action |
| February 08, 2009 |
Governor and Legislative Leaders Close to Agreement – But No Deal Yet |
| February 07, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: With California’s Credit Rating Now Lowest in Nation, Evans, Pérez Call for Quick Budget Action |
| February 06, 2009 |
Letter Presses AG to Investigate Republicans For Alleged Vote Trading in the Budget Process |
| February 06, 2009 |
Will There Be A Budget Vote Next Week? |
| February 03, 2009 |
Cavala: First “Censure”, Then Purge--The Republican Party Seeks Ideological Cleansing…. |
| February 02, 2009 |
Polling Shows Californians Want a Mix of Spending Cuts and Revenue Increases |
| February 01, 2009 |
Will Republicans Divert Stimulus Money From Immediate Budget Needs? |
| January 31, 2009 |
Democratic Radio Address: Federal Stimulus on Horizon, Focus Remains on Budget |
| January 30, 2009 |
Governor Wins Round One of the Court Battle, State Workers Lose Their Livelihood |
| January 30, 2009 |
Judge Rules In Favor of Governor Schwarzenegger |
| January 29, 2009 |
PPIC Survey Shows For First Time Majority Favor Reduction of Two-Thirds Requirement For Budget Passage |
| January 29, 2009 |
On the Brink |
| January 26, 2009 |
Local Media Coverage Distorts Truth About Budget Impasse |
| January 26, 2009 |
Ideology Will Not Solve California’s Problems |
| January 26, 2009 |
California is Now Broke |
| January 23, 2009 |
Federal Bailout Insufficient To Address California Needs |
| January 22, 2009 |
People on Disability Will Receive Full Funding For February |
| January 20, 2009 |
Is the Cal Chamber Becoming Irrelevant? |
| January 17, 2009 |
Weekly Radio Address: Democrats Stress Need for Serious Negotiation and Partnership to Solve Budget Crisis |
| January 17, 2009 |
Hundreds Protest Against Governor’s Spending Cut Proposals |
| January 16, 2009 |
Governor’s Proposed Budget is “Disaster” for Schools |
| January 14, 2009 |
Crisis Hasn't Registered on Many Californians |
| January 13, 2009 |
Proposed Cuts to Regional Centers Will Have Major Impact on Disabled Population |
| January 13, 2009 |
California Faces Bankruptcy and IOUs |
| January 09, 2009 |
The Governor and Every Legislator Need To Attend a Local School Board Meeting |
| January 09, 2009 |
Legislative Analyst Projects Darker Budget Outlook |
| January 08, 2009 |
Governor Flopping All Over the Place on Budget |
| January 07, 2009 |
Governor's Veto Leaves Uncertainty in Growing Budget Crisis |
| January 07, 2009 |
Senator Leader Darryl Steinberg Perplexed by Governor’s Inaction on Democratic Proposal |
| January 06, 2009 |
Is Budget Plan by Democrats in Legal Jeopardy? |
| January 05, 2009 |
The Holidays Are Over, Now When Are We Going to Get Serious? |
| January 05, 2009 |
California in Desperate Need of a Stimulus Package |
| January 05, 2009 |
California is in Desperate Need of a Gas Tax |
| January 01, 2009 |
Speaker Bass Addresses Governor’s Proposal and Budget Crisis Issue in Wednesday Press Conference |
| January 01, 2009 |
Governor Calls for Over $17 Billion in Spending Cuts |
| January 01, 2009 |
Time To End Term Limits |
| December 30, 2008 |
Schrag: A Series of Bad Decisions Have Compounded Current Crisis |
| December 29, 2008 |
Moving Closer to Long Shot Budget Deal in a Broken System |
| December 26, 2008 |
Cavala: A Modest Proposal |
| December 24, 2008 |
Leaders to Continue Talks After Christmas |
| December 24, 2008 |
Controller Seeks Federal Guarantee to Restart Public Works Projects |
| December 23, 2008 |
Controller Chiang’s Letter to Governor, Legislative Leaders Warns of Worsening State Cash Position |
| December 23, 2008 |
Democratic Leaders Respond To Governor’s Press Conference |
| December 22, 2008 |
Media Acquiescence Allows Governor to Move Forward with Reckless Agenda |
| December 21, 2008 |
Banks Target the Working Poor During Fiscal Crisis |
| December 20, 2008 |
Weekly Radio Address: Governor Schwarzenegger Needs to Sign Fiscal Package |
| December 20, 2008 |
Republicans Using Budget Crisis To Destroy Labor and Environment |
| December 20, 2008 |
Budget Stalemate Heavily Impacts Californians with Disabilities |
| December 20, 2008 |
Democrats Respond to Governor’s Executive Order Furloughing State Workers |
| December 19, 2008 |
Democratic Leadership Respond to the Governor’s Veto Threat |
| December 19, 2008 |
Delay in Resolving Crisis will have Major Impact on People with Disabilities, Mental Health Needs, Seniors |
| December 18, 2008 |
Democrats: If You Won’t Join Us, We’ll Solve This Ourselves |
| December 18, 2008 |
Democratic Plan Addresses Budget By Majority Vote |
| December 18, 2008 |
Failure to Resolve Budget Crisis Harms Economic Recovery Efforts |
| December 18, 2008 |
Assembly Continues To Try To Find Budget Solution |
| December 17, 2008 |
Chiang: Vote to Halt Financing of Public Works Projects Painful |
| December 17, 2008 |
Republican Budget: Too Many Myths & Cuts |
| December 17, 2008 |
Speaker Bass Disappointed Republicans Blocked Budget Package |
| December 16, 2008 |
Democratic Legislative Leaders Respond to Republican Proposal |
| December 16, 2008 |
Schrag: Note To Republicans 1977 Is Over |
| December 15, 2008 |
Senate Majority Leader Florez urges Henry Paulson to invest in California |
| December 14, 2008 |
Legislators Playing a Dangerous Game of Chicken with the Budget |
| December 13, 2008 |
Democratic Radio Address: Democratic Budget Initiatives |
| December 12, 2008 |
Republican Feud Belies The Reality of the Severity of the Current Economic Crisis |
| December 11, 2008 |
Governor: California is Heading “Toward Financial Armageddon” |
| December 11, 2008 |
New Republican Leader Hijacks Democrats and Forces Republican Demands on Budget Process |
| December 09, 2008 |
Speaker Bass: “Some of my colleagues… are in denial” |
| December 09, 2008 |
Controller John Chiang Calls For Immediate Action to Avoid Economic Catastrophe |
| December 09, 2008 |
California Treasurer Warns of Severity of Crisis Facing California |
| December 06, 2008 |
A Preview of Monday’s Joint Session of California Legislature on Budget: Speaker Bass Calls for Republican Cooperation |
| December 06, 2008 |
Senate Budget Subcommittees Appointed, Will Hold Hearings Next Week Wednesday After Monday’s Rare Joint Session |
| December 05, 2008 |
The Alarm Will Sound Monday Around 3 P.M. |
| December 05, 2008 |
State Budget Gaps Balloon to $97 Billion |
| December 04, 2008 |
Democrats Propose Majority Vote for California State Budget, Speaker Creates Accountability Committee |
| December 04, 2008 |
Shifting Economy Keeps States Guessing and Budgets in Trouble |
| December 03, 2008 |
SEIU's Realistic California Budget |
| December 03, 2008 |
Nothing New From California's Yacht Party |
| December 03, 2008 |
Ideological Purity Versus Helping States Get Out of the Ditch |
| December 03, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger and Other Governors Hopeful Obama Economic Recovery Plan Will Have States as a Centerpiece |
| December 03, 2008 |
Learning Lessons: California’s Budget Problems Won’t Be Solved in the Capitol |
| December 02, 2008 |
Somebody Call 911, It's a Fiscal Emergency According to Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| December 02, 2008 |
Schrag: A Modest Proposal to Balance California’s Budget With No Tax Increases |
| December 02, 2008 |
California State Budget Mess: Media Misses Republican Obstructionism |
| November 30, 2008 |
Last Week’s California Budget Vote: Failure or First Step Toward Solutions? |
| November 29, 2008 |
California Assembly Budget Chair John Laird Sees Republican Obstructionism in Tuesday’s Special Session Budget Vote |
| November 25, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis: Democratic Proposal Calling for $8.1 Billion in Cuts and $8.1 Billion in New Revenues Including Restoring Vehicle License Fee Defeated – Governor Likely To Call Special Session of New Legislature |
| November 25, 2008 |
Clarity Amidst the Chaos of the California Budget |
| November 21, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis: Sunday Floor Sessions Cancelled--Both Houses to Meet Tuesday |
| November 21, 2008 |
The California State Budget and Local Impacts |
| November 21, 2008 |
An Economic Backdrop for Fiscal Reform in California |
| November 21, 2008 |
The Undoing of the Vehicles License Fee: The Virginia Story as Applied to California |
| November 20, 2008 |
Oil Severance Fee Would Ease California Budget Pain |
| November 19, 2008 |
Why the States Belong in the Stimulus Package |
| November 18, 2008 |
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Can California Have $25 Billion? |
| November 18, 2008 |
Schrag: The Knights Who Say “No” in California |
| November 18, 2008 |
The California Budget Crisis-- Sunday Floor Sessions Scheduled—With Some Seats Still Too Close to Call New Legislature in Two Weeks Will Take Over |
| November 17, 2008 |
Bailing Out the States? |
| November 17, 2008 |
California is Not Alone: Three Western Governors Float Tax Hikes |
| November 16, 2008 |
Laird Opens California Special Session Budget Hearing: “Tough Decisions on Cuts and Taxes Means Legislators Should Avoid Drawing Lines in the Sand” |
| November 16, 2008 |
So Much for Pledges and Taxes in California |
| November 16, 2008 |
Cavala: Another Slap at California’s Italian-Americans as Schwarzenegger Seeks Elimination of “Columbus Day” Fete |
| November 15, 2008 |
Bleak California Budget News: Cuts, Caps Under Consideration |
| November 14, 2008 |
The California Budget: Assembly Hearing This Morning—No Senate Hearings Scheduled—No Agreement From Leaders |
| November 13, 2008 |
Who Will Be Hurt in the California Budget Fight—And Has the Groundwork Been Laid for a Solution? |
| November 13, 2008 |
A Depression-Style California State Budget |
| November 12, 2008 |
LAO Report to Schwarzenegger: Time to Fix the VLF |
| November 12, 2008 |
California Budget Deficit Through June of 2010 Projected Now At $28 Billion--Legislative Budget Analyst Issues Warning--Assembly Budget Committee Will Meet Friday |
| November 12, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger As A Failure - Will He Drag the State Down With Him? |
| November 11, 2008 |
California Veterans Celebrate National Holiday by Joining Seniors and Disabled in Protesting Schwarzenegger Budget Cuts |
| November 07, 2008 |
Cavala: Time to Take the Blinders Off on California Budget Realities |
| November 07, 2008 |
Yes, California, There's Still a Budget Mess to Fix |
| November 07, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Cuts Would Mean Hundreds of Thousands of Californians Would Lose Health Coverage and Millions Would Lose Dental, Vision, Podiatry, And Other Vital Benefits |
| November 07, 2008 |
Governor Schwarzenegger Proposing Major Cuts To IHSS, SSI/SSP and Other Cuts in Health and Human Services |
| November 07, 2008 |
An Example of Schwarzenegger’s Economic Stimulation? Mid-year Budget Ax Aimed at University of California and Higher Education System--Vital to California Economy |
| November 07, 2008 |
Real Economic Plans Don’t Penalize Working Families: Schwarzenegger’s Trickle Down Won’t Stimulate California |
| November 06, 2008 |
Governor Will Propose Emergency Budget Proposals Today-- Shortfall Swells To Over $11 Billion and Growing |
| November 03, 2008 |
Cavala: Does California’s Governor Have a Plan to Resolve Our Budget Problems? (Other Than Avoid Blame?) |
| October 30, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Will Propose Major Cuts to Health and Human Services on Top of Education Cuts Announced Yesterday--Revenue Increases, Details Sketchy |
| October 29, 2008 |
A Special Session to Fire California’s Teachers |
| October 29, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger: Major Education Cuts Coming--Will Call For Sales Tax Increase--Other Proposed Major Spending Cuts Likely |
| October 28, 2008 |
Hidden Consequences of Bad California Budget Deal Earlier This Year Deserve Scrutiny |
| October 28, 2008 |
Special Session on California State Budget: Governor Will Call Session Nov 5th |
| October 25, 2008 |
California Assembly Budget Chair John Laird Discusses Democratic Priorities for Economic Stimulus |
| October 23, 2008 |
Seniors Angry With Schwarzenegger Over Budget Cuts, Especially Renter’s Tax Credit |
| October 21, 2008 |
Schrag: California Voters Have Played a Role in Fantasy State Budgeting |
| October 11, 2008 |
Discussions to Protect California’s Budget During the Financial Crisis Outlined by Speaker Bass and Assembly Budget Chair Laird |
| October 07, 2008 |
As Another Special Session on Budget Looms, Senator Asks if California Can “Bail Out Ourselves” By Retirement System Purchase of State’s Short-Term Debt |
| October 07, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis – Again-- Possible Special Session on State Budget |
| October 03, 2008 |
Credit Crisis Causes California Cash Crunch |
| September 30, 2008 |
Eleventh in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The "Trailer" Bills |
| September 26, 2008 |
California’s Budget: Turning Gold Into Lead |
| September 25, 2008 |
Swim at Your Own Risk in California After Line Item Budget Veto |
| September 24, 2008 |
Half a Billion in “Blue Pencil” Cuts Before Schwarzenegger Signs California Budget: What Do These Say About Our Values—and the Myth of “Fat” in State Government? |
| September 24, 2008 |
Tenth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The Budget Amends That Got the Budget Signed |
| September 23, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Makes $500 Million in Cuts Including Programs for Seniors, Disabled, CalWORKS, and Adult Protective Services Before Signing California Budget |
| September 23, 2008 |
Schrag: Californians and the System We Have Built Are Responsible for Budget Gridlock |
| September 22, 2008 |
Past Reflections on Prop 56: Why the Past is Not Predictive on Reforming the Two-Thirds Vote Requirement to Pass a California Budget |
| September 21, 2008 |
Assembly Candidate Running to Replace Termed Out John Laird Will Work to Reform California’s Flawed Budget Process |
| September 20, 2008 |
Assembly Budget Chair John Laird on the California Budget Agreement and the Process |
| September 20, 2008 |
California State Budget Act Updated Final Compromise Floor Report |
| September 20, 2008 |
Payments Held Up by California Budget Stalemate to Be Expedited by State Controller Chiang |
| September 20, 2008 |
With California Budget Passed, Next Year's Health Fight Begins Now |
| September 19, 2008 |
California Legislature Passes Final Bills Needed to Secure Governor’s Signature on State Budget |
| September 19, 2008 |
This State Budget is a Massive Corporate Boondoggle That Kicks California's Fiscal Future into a Ditch On The Side Of the Road |
| September 19, 2008 |
Ninth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget:The Late-Night, September 15th, Threatened-to-be-Vetoed Budget |
| September 18, 2008 |
Latest Details of California Budget Agreement Between Legislative Leaders and Governor Schwarzenegger |
| September 18, 2008 |
Hold the Presses: Schwarzenegger and Legislative Leaders Agree to Resolution of California Budget Staring Contest |
| September 18, 2008 |
For An On-Time and Socially Responsible Budget, California Should Join 47 Other States and Get Rid of the Two-Thirds Vote Requirement to Pass One |
| September 18, 2008 |
Enough Is Enough: California Budget Delay Must End Now |
| September 18, 2008 |
Republican Abuse of Supermajority for California Budget Cries Out for Reform |
| September 17, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis - Day 79: Governor Speaks In Fresno On Budget--Says Budget Bill Is "Unacceptable," Meets with Legislative Leaders |
| September 17, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis - Day 79: With First Ever Veto of Budget This Week and Legislative Override Schwarzenegger Would Lose Line Item Veto Power |
| September 17, 2008 |
A Cry for Reform So We Can Have a California Budget Based on Principles |
| September 17, 2008 |
After Schwarzenegger Vetoes Budget What Do Democrats Have to Lose by Backing His Recall? |
| September 17, 2008 |
Is the Bare Minimum for Education in California the Best We Can Hope for in the State Budget? |
| September 17, 2008 |
The Schwarzenegger Budget Veto in the Context of a Dysfunctional System |
| September 16, 2008 |
Transcript of Schwarzenegger’s Press Announcement That He Will Veto State Budget—And Many Bills Sent to Him |
| September 16, 2008 |
BREAKING NEWS: Governor Schwarzenegger Will Veto Budget Bill |
| September 16, 2008 |
California Assembly Speaker Bass Responds to Governor Schwarzenegger’s Impending Veto of State Budget |
| September 16, 2008 |
Democratic Statements on the California Budget Focus on Changing Budget Process—At Least One Commentator is Predicting a Gubernatorial Veto in Statewide TV Address Tonight |
| September 16, 2008 |
Complete Picture of California State Budget Passed by the Legislature is Still Coming into Focus |
| September 16, 2008 |
Perata’s Candid Comments on the California Budget |
| September 16, 2008 |
California Budget Passes Assembly and Goes to Governor |
| September 16, 2008 |
BREAKING NEWS: California State Senate Passes Budget 29-11--Heads To Assembly Still In Session |
| September 15, 2008 |
Plan to Exempt Power Plant from Environmental Review is Part of Budget Bills—Last Minute Amendment is a Real Stinker and Will Be Shoved into SB 1083 Without the Light of Day |
| September 15, 2008 |
Eighth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The Republican Budget-September |
| September 15, 2008 |
Focus to Shift to Over 900 Bills Passed In August By Legislature That Will Be Sent To Governor Schwarzenegger For Final Action Once Budget Is Passed |
| September 14, 2008 |
California Legislative Leaders Reach Budget Deal--Vote Could Come as Early as Monday |
| September 14, 2008 |
This One Takes the Cake on the California Budget—But There is a Serious Story Behind the Cuts |
| September 13, 2008 |
Possible California Budget Deal in State Senate--Vote on Budget Could Happen Next Week |
| September 13, 2008 |
Republican Exploitation of California’s Rare Two-Thirds Budget Vote Requirement |
| September 13, 2008 |
Seventh in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The First Budget Put Up For a Vote in August--The Governor's August Budget with Changes Proposed by the Democratic Majority |
| September 12, 2008 |
Cavala: The Political Fallout of California’s Budget Deadlock |
| September 12, 2008 |
Field Poll: California Voters Prefer Democratic and Schwarzenegger Budget Plans to Republican Plan—Give State Legislature Its Lowest Rating Ever—15% |
| September 12, 2008 |
Sixth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The Governor's August Budget Revision |
| September 12, 2008 |
Faces of the California Budget |
| September 12, 2008 |
Senator Jack Scott on the Republican California Budget: “I Get Phone Calls Saying Please Don’t Destroy Our Schools” |
| September 11, 2008 |
Fifth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The July Conference Committee Budget—“The Democratic Budget” |
| September 11, 2008 |
Laird Releases Report on Governor’s ‘August Revise’ California Budget |
| September 10, 2008 |
You Can Measure a State’s Character by the Budget Choices it Makes |
| September 10, 2008 |
‘All-In’ Strategy for Dems Could Be Ticket to California Budget Reform |
| September 09, 2008 |
Assembly Republicans Vote to Make Severe Health Cuts, Force Future Cuts to California's Health System |
| September 09, 2008 |
CALIFORNIA BUDGET CRISIS - DAY 71: Assembly Rejects Senate Republican Budget Bill 27 to 45 |
| September 09, 2008 |
A Senator Expresses Disappointment in Inability to Pass a California Budget With Balanced Solutions |
| September 08, 2008 |
California Republican Senate Budget Plan Fails to Secure All Republican Votes--Attracts No Democratic Takers--and is Soundly Defeated After Floor Debate |
| September 08, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis: Day 69: Republican Senate Budget Proposal Expected to be Ready and Voted on Today—Majority Vote Budget Reform Gaining Support for Next Year’s Ballot |
| September 06, 2008 |
Cavala: Musings on the California State Budget Deadlock |
| September 06, 2008 |
Assembly Budget Leadership Joins Governor Schwarzenegger in Pointing Out Irresponsibility of Republican Budget Proposal |
| September 06, 2008 |
California Will Comply With Medi-Cal Court Order - Will Restore Medi-Cal Provider Rates This Month |
| September 05, 2008 |
In Their Own Words: Thousands of Life Stories From California’s Aged, Blind, and Disabled on How They Would Be Devastated by Budget Cuts |
| September 05, 2008 |
Why the Republican Spending Cap for California Won’t Work |
| September 05, 2008 |
Update on the California Worker Salary Slash - Chiang Outflanks Arnold Again |
| September 05, 2008 |
Why We Are Willing to Pay Our Share of Taxes to Share in the California Budget Solution |
| September 04, 2008 |
A Day Where Republican Actions Didn’t Quite Mesh With Their Words: Real Life Testimony on California Republican Budget Cuts and Families With Special Needs Don’t Match Sarah Palin’s Rhetoric on the Convention Floor |
| September 03, 2008 |
Steinberg is Right: The California Budget Process Does Need Reform |
| September 02, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis Heats Up: Big 5 Meeting Scheduled for Tomorrow Afternoon—Senate and Assembly Meetings as Well |
| September 02, 2008 |
Steinberg Vows to Take California Budget Process to the Voters--Says He “Won’t Go Through This Again”--Asks Republican Senators to Guarantee Services They Say They Want to Protect Won’t Be Cut in Proposal Expected at the End of Week |
| September 02, 2008 |
Sheila Kuehl on Senate Floor Mocks Republicans for Faux Concerns for the Poor and Sick in Debate on California Budget |
| September 02, 2008 |
Jack Scott, a Mild Mannered and Thoughtful Democratic Senator, Criticizes Republicans for Obstruction on the California Budget |
| September 01, 2008 |
Cavala: Tax Increase or Borrow More and Rip the Poor? Why Not Let the People of California Decide? |
| August 31, 2008 |
Perata Calls Republican’s Bluff on State Budget: Tells Them to Prepare Their Budget for Floor Debate and Vote |
| August 30, 2008 |
Senator Perata on the Compromise California Budget Rejected by Senate Republicans |
| August 30, 2008 |
Assemblymembers Laird and Caballero Call on Republicans to Put an End to the California Budget Stalemate |
| August 29, 2008 |
BREAKING NEWS: Senate Fails To Pass Compromise California Budget With All 15 Republicans Voting No |
| August 29, 2008 |
California Senate Slated to Vote This Morning on Version of Governor's August Budget Proposal |
| August 28, 2008 |
Breaking News: California Senate to Vote on Compromise Budget Tomorrow Morning at 10 A.M |
| August 28, 2008 |
Laird Answers the Question: ‘Why Can’t We Get a State Budget?’ |
| August 28, 2008 |
New PPIC Poll: Californians Want State Budget Gap Closed by Mix of Spending Cuts and Tax Increases |
| August 27, 2008 |
Republican Leader Rejects Concept of California Budget Compromise |
| August 27, 2008 |
Stand-Off On California Budget Continues--No Agreement Close—Floor Sessions Today |
| August 27, 2008 |
The California Budget Gets a Tardy and an Incomplete Grade: The Governor and Legislative Republicans Undercut Education |
| August 26, 2008 |
A Bad Time for Budget Cuts to California’s Aged, Disabled, Poor, and Uninsured |
| August 26, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis - Day 56: Federal Judge Orders State to Explain Delay in Implementing Order to Restore Medi-Cal Rates |
| August 23, 2008 |
What is the All Cuts Budget California Republican Legislators Are Proposing? |
| August 22, 2008 |
Cavala: California Budget Deadlock May Be Resolved by Voters Throwing Out Republicans |
| August 22, 2008 |
No California Budget Deal Appears Close—Both Houses to Meet on Monday |
| August 22, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger-Chiang Case on Pay Order Should Be Moved to Federal Court to Protect California from Liability for What Could Be Billions in Fines |
| August 21, 2008 |
Governor’s Executive Order Hurts California Working Families and Public Safety |
| August 21, 2008 |
Cavala: Parra Power-Play Falls Short |
| August 21, 2008 |
Call Schwarzenegger’s Bluff - Let Deadline for Ballot Measures Pass |
| August 20, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Officially Makes Public His Compromise Proposal on California Budget—Some Call It the “August Revise” |
| August 20, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Proposes “New” California Budget Compromise |
| August 20, 2008 |
Publicly-Funded Nursing Home Profits Protected in California Budget While Vital Services Cut for Seniors and People With Disabilities |
| August 20, 2008 |
Caution Light on Schwarzenegger Attempt to Balance Budget on Back of Californians Who Need Medical Care--Federal District Court Judge Orders Halt to Medi-Cal Provider Cut |
| August 20, 2008 |
Republicans Need to Tell Californians What They Want in the Budget, Not What They Hate |
| August 20, 2008 |
Where's the California Budget? Who Is Obstructing? |
| August 19, 2008 |
Cavala: ‘Deadlines’ for the California Budget Could Go Into Next Month--and Beyond |
| August 19, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis - Day 50 |
| August 19, 2008 |
California Democratic Legislators Must Hold Strong on Budget |
| August 18, 2008 |
John Laird Closes Assembly Debate on California Budget With a Laser Focus on the Policies and Politics Involved |
| August 18, 2008 |
The California Budget Debate: Swanson Delivers Impassioned Plea for Accountability and Truth Telling on Assembly Floor—Chides Republicans for Partisanship |
| August 18, 2008 |
Tired of Trying to Read Between the Lines: Still No Answer to What Republicans Want in the Line Items of the California Budget |
| August 17, 2008 |
Assembly Debate Foreshadows Majority Vote for California Budget But No Republican Votes Needed to Pass It by the Required Two-Thirds Majority |
| August 17, 2008 |
Breaking: California Assembly Now Meeting in Rare Session: Compromise Balanced Budget Bill Details Emerging |
| August 17, 2008 |
Capping California’s Prospects |
| August 16, 2008 |
How a Republican Spending Cap Would Harm an Increasingly Difficult California Budget |
| August 15, 2008 |
Convergence of End of Session and California Budget Fight Create Opportunity for Hanky Panky |
| August 14, 2008 |
Hearing Tomorrow on California Republican “Budget Reform” Measure—Vote Planned Sunday on State Budget With All the Trimmings—But No One is Really Sure |
| August 14, 2008 |
Assembly Expected to Hold Hearing on Republican Budget Cap Constitutional Amendment Tomorrow Afternoon—Does This Mean Something is in the Works? |
| August 13, 2008 |
Perata Says Budget Deal Reached With Governor |
| August 13, 2008 |
California Budget Madness From Earlier in the Day |
| August 13, 2008 |
Deal Time in Sacramento? |
| August 12, 2008 |
Rumors of a California Budget Deal in the Works |
| August 12, 2008 |
The Difficulties of Dealing With Cornered Wounded Party Animals on the California Budget |
| August 12, 2008 |
Chiang: Schwarzenegger Wrong About Lawsuit and Doesn’t Understand Consequences |
| August 11, 2008 |
More Flies in the Ointment of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Executive Order Cutting California State Workers Pay to the Federal Minimum Wage |
| August 11, 2008 |
Senate Leaders to Governor Schwarzenegger: Executive Order Jeopardizes Prison Safety in California |
| August 11, 2008 |
Cavala: G.O.P. Game of ‘Chicken’ With California’s Budget Could Leave a Lot of Republican Feathers on the Road |
| August 09, 2008 |
Democratic Assemblymembers Highlight the Governor’s Harmful Budget Tactics--Call for Him and Legislative Republicans to Negotiate California Budget in Good Faith |
| August 08, 2008 |
Governator Says "Hasta La Vista, College Jobs" |
| August 08, 2008 |
The California Budget Stalemate and Children |
| August 07, 2008 |
Assemblymember John Laird on the Budget: “The Voters of California Have Been Taken Hostage but We Can’t Get a Ransom Note” |
| August 07, 2008 |
Assemblymember Evans on the California Republican Budget Strategy and Their Grover Norquist Inspired Constitutional Amendment |
| August 07, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Acting the Tough Guy to Cover for His Weakness? Both Houses of California Legislature Meeting This Morning—But Don’t Hold Your Breath |
| August 07, 2008 |
California Legislature Completes Last Policy Committee Hearings on Bills For 2008—Hundreds of Bills Likely to be Killed in Appropriation Committees Today |
| August 07, 2008 |
New SEIU Lawsuit Raises Further Questions About Governor Schwarzenegger’s State Employee Wage Order |
| August 06, 2008 |
Transcript of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Remarks on State Budget, Vetoing Legislation Until One is Passed, and Answers to Questions About What He Said About Taxes |
| August 06, 2008 |
The Decline And Fall Of Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| August 05, 2008 |
Perata: The Latest on California Budget Negotiations |
| August 05, 2008 |
Democratic Senator Florez and Republican Senator Denham Had a Lot of Questions About Governor Schwarzenegger’s Pay Order—and Didn’t Believe Much of What They Heard From Administration at Hearing |
| August 05, 2008 |
California Budget Crisis - Day 35 |
| August 05, 2008 |
Arnold's Sales Tax Proposal |
| August 04, 2008 |
What California’s Elected Controller John Chiang Told the Senate Governmental Organization Committee Hearing on the Governor’s Executive Order on Pay |
| August 04, 2008 |
George Skelton’s “Dance of Death” Paints an Accurate Picture of the California Budget Process |
| August 04, 2008 |
Governor and California Legislative Leaders Meet Sunday--No Budget Deal--But Talks Will Continue |
| August 04, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Borrows a Page from Newt Gingrich |
| August 02, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Order on State Employee Pay Harms California’s Middle Class and is Counterproductive on Budget Negotiations |
| August 01, 2008 |
Rally at the Capitol and Legal Actions—Two Moves of the Day--as California State Workers Don’t Want to Be Pawns in a Schwarzenegger Game |
| August 01, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger’s Pay Cut Stunt Not Very Popular Judging by Who is Saying What and Those Who Do Not Want to Talk About It |
| July 31, 2008 |
If Politics is About Timing, This One by Arnold Schwarzenegger is “Priceless” |
| July 31, 2008 |
Letter of California State Controller John Chiang to Governor Schwarzenegger That He Will Not Comply With Order Cutting State Worker Pay and Explaining His Reasons |
| July 31, 2008 |
Text of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Executive Order Reducing State Worker Pay |
| July 31, 2008 |
Schrag: Schwarzenegger Pay Cut Budget Trick is Latest in 5 Years of Missed Leadership |
| July 31, 2008 |
What Arnold's Executive Order Means to Student Employees |
| July 31, 2008 |
Conference Committee’s California Budget Proposal is the Only One That Makes Sense for Public Transit |
| July 30, 2008 |
Perata Shoots Down Trial Balloons on Raiding Transportation Funds to Close California Budget Gap |
| July 30, 2008 |
California State Workers With Black Cots on Capitol Lawn Tell What Schwarzenegger’s Wage Cut Will Mean to Them and Their Families |
| July 29, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Says He Plans to Sign Executive Order Cutting State Workers’ Pay on Thursday Despite Mounting and Near Universal Opposition |
| July 29, 2008 |
State Budget Gaps Triple for '09 |
| July 29, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Gets Boxes of Petitions Against His Threat of Reducing State Worker Pay Below California’s Minimum Wage |
| July 28, 2008 |
California May Be Heading to Constitutional Standoff on Schwarzenegger’s Plan for Payment of Less Than Full Salaries to State Employees With Unanswered Questions: Thursday May Be D-Day |
| July 28, 2008 |
What Was Schwarzenegger Thinking About When He Proposed Cutting State Workers’ Pay to the Minimum Wage? |
| July 28, 2008 |
A Republican Play to Change Labor Laws as Part of California Budget Deal? The Dangers of Closed Door Negotiations |
| July 27, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger’s Move on State Workers’ Pay: A Cynical and Heartless Political Move |
| July 25, 2008 |
Cavala: Rich-Guy Governor Demonstrates Insensitivity to Salaried Employees of California’s Government |
| July 25, 2008 |
I'd Buy That for $10 - Access To California State Parks |
| July 24, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Proposes Forcing State Employees to “Loan” the State Money |
| July 24, 2008 |
Californians! You Can Now Create Your Own State Budget and Send It to Your Legislators and the Governor |
| July 23, 2008 |
Reaction to Breaking News: Schwarzenegger Plans to Slash Pay for 200,000 State Workers to Federal Minimum Wage During Budget Standoff |
| July 23, 2008 |
Incoming California Senate Leader Steinberg Speaks Truth to the State Budget |
| July 22, 2008 |
With These California Health Cuts, Everybody Hurts: What You Can Do About It Today |
| July 21, 2008 |
California Crime Victim Office Budget Cut Would Be Pennywise and Pound Foolish |
| July 20, 2008 |
Dems Pushback on California Budget: No Borrowing |
| July 19, 2008 |
The Democratic California State Budget: A Mix of New Revenues and Tough Cuts and no Risky Borrowing Schemes |
| July 18, 2008 |
Reality Takes a Vacation on the California State Budget |
| July 18, 2008 |
Californians! Create Your Own State Budget |
| July 17, 2008 |
Californians Criticize Arnold for Not Reaching Budget Deal |
| July 16, 2008 |
Do Republican Legislators Have a Real California Budget? |
| July 16, 2008 |
Time for Action on California Budget Conference Committee Bill |
| July 12, 2008 |
California Budget Must Prioritize Fire Safety |
| July 10, 2008 |
If It’s July, We Must Be Talking About the California Budget |
| July 09, 2008 |
California Assembly and Senate Conference Committee Passes Budget Bill: Floor Votes Presumably to be Scheduled |
| July 09, 2008 |
The Democrat’s Smart Income Tax Solution to the California Budget Deficit |
| July 06, 2008 |
On July 4, Contra Costa Seniors and People with Disabilities Celebrate Their Independence and Hope It Will Last |
| July 04, 2008 |
California Budget Conference Committee Closes Out Most Health Items--For Now |
| July 01, 2008 |
Happy New Fiscal Year California! |
| June 26, 2008 |
Spending Limit: Been There, Done That |
| June 24, 2008 |
New Poll Shows California Voters Strongly Support State Global Warming Action--and How Far Republican Legislators Are Out of Step in Linking Their Votes on the Budget to Delays in Enforcement |
| June 23, 2008 |
Cavala: Panetta ‘Reform’ Commission Rehashes Old Issues, Provides No Realistic New Ideas |
| June 21, 2008 |
Why Assembly Democrats are Considering Reforms to the Lottery to Help Fund Needed California Services |
| June 19, 2008 |
Why We Can’t Let Republican Legislators Take the California State Budget Hostage for Their Narrow Agenda |
| June 17, 2008 |
Cavala: What Will California’s Budget Deadlock Bring? |
| June 17, 2008 |
A California Hostage Crisis, Not a Budget Negotiation |
| June 15, 2008 |
How to Follow the California Budget Process as Legislative Conference Committee Meets to Reconcile Differences |
| June 14, 2008 |
The California Assembly Democratic Plan to Solve the Budget Crisis |
| June 12, 2008 |
Cut That OTHER Spending Out of the California Budget! |
| June 11, 2008 |
A Creative, Long-Term California Budget Solution That Finds a Middle Ground |
| June 10, 2008 |
California Field Poll Shows Voters Prefer Budget Cuts to New Taxes in Theory, But Oppose Specific Cuts When Identified |
| June 10, 2008 |
There IS a Better Way to Fund California Education |
| June 10, 2008 |
Progressive Taxes Can Solve California’s Fiscal Uncertainty |
| June 07, 2008 |
California Field Poll Reports on What Californians Want from State and Local Government and What They Want to Pay |
| June 05, 2008 |
Third in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: Changes by the Governor in His May Revision |
| June 03, 2008 |
California State Parks Budget Proposal is a Win-Win for Everyone |
| June 02, 2008 |
Californians Want Permanent Budget Solutions - Not a Roll of the Dice |
| May 31, 2008 |
California Budget Health Care Cuts and Choices Emerging in Committee Decisions |
| May 30, 2008 |
Red State-Blue State Culture and the California State Budget |
| May 30, 2008 |
California Senate and Assembly Budget Panels Reject Schwarzenegger Proposed Major Cuts to In-Home Supportive Services--Large Crowds Pack Both Hearing Rooms |
| May 27, 2008 |
Second in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The Budget Originally Proposed by the Governor in January |
| May 27, 2008 |
Once Again: California's Budget Crisis Isn't a Spending Crisis |
| May 22, 2008 |
First in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: Background Information |
| May 22, 2008 |
Treasurer Bill Lockyer: California’s Unsung Champion of the Underserved |
| May 22, 2008 |
Protecting Our Air and Atmosphere Against Republican Rollbacks in California |
| May 22, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger and Republican Legislators Losing With California Voters on Budget According to PPIC Poll |
| May 21, 2008 |
Schrag: Schwarzenegger’s Budget Gamble Not Facing Up to Real Choices Between Quality Services and the Revenues of Mediocrity |
| May 20, 2008 |
Meeting the California Budget Challenge: Try This Experiment to Find Out How Difficult it is to Close a Deficit with a Two-Thirds Vote Requirement |
| May 19, 2008 |
Legislative Analyst Close to Schwarzenegger on Budget Revenue and Expenditure Projections But Rips Him on Lottery and Solutions to the Mess |
| May 17, 2008 |
The Assembly Democratic Perspective on the May Revise and California’s Budget Crisis |
| May 16, 2008 |
Dan Walters Apoplectic Over Schwarzenegger’s Budget Gimcracks….But the Best is Yet to Come! |
| May 16, 2008 |
Sierra Club California: Toward A Sustainable Budget |
| May 16, 2008 |
Education, the California Budget, and Selling Us a Bridge to Nowhere |
| May 15, 2008 |
Governor's California May Budget Revision Makes Deeper Health Cuts |
| May 15, 2008 |
Latest Schwarzenegger Budget Plan Slashes In-Home Supportive Services Which Helps 408,000 Elderly, Blind or Disabled Californians Live Safely At Home |
| May 15, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger Again Proposes Taking from California Public Transportation—Only This Time Gas is at $4 a Gallon |
| May 15, 2008 |
What Others Are Saying About California Health Budget Cuts |
| May 15, 2008 |
Gambling With Our Future: Schwarzenegger’s Revised Budget Not Sitting Well With Anyone |
| May 15, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger’s Budget Gets a Pink Slip from Californians: We Want More for Our Schools |
| May 14, 2008 |
Perata: Democrats Reject Defeatism and Pessimism in Governor’s California Budget May Revision |
| May 14, 2008 |
As the Details of Schwarzenegger’s “May Revise” of California Budget Emerge, There are Deep Cuts That Will Hurt—Even in Education |
| May 14, 2008 |
Quick California Budget Update - May Pre-Vise |
| May 14, 2008 |
California Budget Shortfall Now Estimated at Over $17 Billion: Schwarzenegger to Release Budget Changes 1 P.M. |
| May 14, 2008 |
Quiet before the Storm: As We Await “May Revise” of California Budget Let’s Remember Health Cuts Already Made |
| May 13, 2008 |
Schwarzenegger May Revise Preview: Borrow, Borrow, Borrow! |
| May 12, 2008 |
Remember the Year of Health Care? Schwarzenegger’s Budget Cuts in Medi-Cal Would Increase Uninsured and Lose More in Federal Aid than it “Saves” |
| May 12, 2008 |
We Cannot Afford to Let Other States Lure Away Our Best Teachers Because of Budget Shortsightedness |
| May 11, 2008 |
Bad News Likely Wednesday When Governor Schwarzenegger Releases Budget Changes in “May Revise” |
| May 09, 2008 |
Cutting Children’s Health Coverage Will Only Make California’s Budget Situation Worse |
| 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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