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Gavin Newsom channels Jerry Brown with constitutional amendment proposal
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhen Proposition 13, California’s iconic property tax limit measure, went before voters in June...
As governments face deficits, former Gov. Jerry Brown urges big spending to ‘build stuff’
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 6 months agoSpend more money to “build stuff,” says former Gov. Jerry Brown, because the state and country need...
Walters: Budget deficit revives state’s everlasting battle over school funding
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo Finance· 3 weeks agoFinancial support for the nearly 6 million students in California’s public schools is not only the...
Walters: Lagging revenue continues to drive California budget deficit as deadline nears
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo Finance· 1 month agoAs the June 15 constitutional deadline for enacting a 2024-25 state budget approaches, the good news...
Column: Taxpayer 'protection' or taxpayer 'deception'? A new ballot measure aims to destroy state...
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoHoward Jarvis, right, the face of the Proposition 13 movement in 1978, with Gov. Jerry Brown, who...
Walters: Newsom shuns tax increases. His budget tells a different story
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo Finance· 2 weeks agoWhen Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a much-revised 2024-25 state budget this month, he became visibly...
Memo to Gov. Gavin Newsom: California can’t economize on fighting climate change | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe climate crisis does not care about California’s $31.5 billion budget deficit. But in order to...
The ‘rainy day’ is here for California schools. It could be much worse if it wasn’t for Jerry Brown
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 1 week agoFormer Gov. Jerry Brown's commitment to shoring up the state's rainy day reserves, particularly for K-12 education, is helping schools avoid more significant cuts.
Will Newsom confront California’s structural budget problems or leave them to successor?
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 5 months agoCalifornia governors tend to leave hefty budget deficits behind when they depart, forcing their...
How California political power could shift south – and to the left – after Feinstein
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYounger, more liberal, more weighted to the south: California’s political demography is shifting,...