SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lawmakers' optimism about finally reaching a deal to close the state's $26.3 billion budget deficit on Sunday turned out to...
Peter Dreier | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
The governor's decision to eliminate the UCLA Labor Center -- a valuable, nationally-recognized center of research, teaching, and community service -- is clearly a political maneuver, not a budget necessity.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Schwarzenegger's heartlessness towards the state's most vulnerable citizens in a time of economic collapse renders absurd the Republicans' attempts to paint their party as "kinder and gentler" or "compassionate."
David G. Crane | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
It didn't have to be this way. Had California accounted for its promises, billions would not have to be taken from discretionary programs, which is just the first wave of a massive tsunami: our underfunding is simply staggering.
Nathan Gardels | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
De-leveraging the American Dream will not be easy. America's crisis is not at root a banking or financial crisis. It is a crisis of consumer democracy.
Paul Hogarth | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Last Friday at 5:00 p.m. (which he's apt to do when releasing bad news), San Francisco Mayor Newsom vetoed three pro-tenant ordinances designed to help renters facing hard times.
Financial Times | Matthew Garrahan and Lionel Barber | Posted 08.11.2009 | Business
Arnold Schwarzenegger faces the fight of his life. The "Governator", best known for slugging it out in Hollywood blockbusters as an indestructible cyb...
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 08.11.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Against a backdrop of IOUs and expanding government furloughs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders expressed...
Paul Hogarth | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media
Bipartisan peacemaker? The only thing Arnold ever succeeded in getting Democrats and Republicans in Sacramento to agree on is that they both dislike him.
nytimes.com | JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
LOS ANGELES -- The only thing worse than being issued an i.o.u. rather than a check from the State of California may be not getting the i.o.u. at all ...
wsj.com | RYAN KNUTSON | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
A group of the biggest U.S. banks said they would stop accepting California's IOUs on Friday, adding pressure on the state to close its $26.3 billion ...
Jerome Halligan | Posted 08.06.2009 | Comedy
Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that his state "will skip directly to 2011." California faces a projected $26.3 billion budget deficit, and the state's controller began handing out IOUs last week.
William Bradley | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
This is a fight between some neocons who still want to promote Palin and their discredited geopolitical agenda against some Republican would-be modernizers.
San Jose Mercury News | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO -- In a move certain to draw national ridicule and exact financial hardship on business owners and taxpayers across the state, California i...
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 08.02.2009 | Style
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke her elbow outside the White House on June 18th, her injury put her in good company: Supreme Court Justic...
AP | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency to address California's deficit and has ordered state offices closed thr...
Jamie Court | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Independent panels of doctors had been ruling in every autistic child's case that the treatment was medically necessary, so insurers, with the help of the Schwarzenegger administration, changed the rules of the game.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
Schwarzenegger's brinkmanship might satisfy his ego but it is a terrible blow to California's health and to the national economy.
AP | STEVE LAWRENCE | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lawmakers around the nation spent Tuesday in grueling, around-the-clock budget sessions as they struggled to avoid governme...
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California faces a $24 billion budget shortfall, an eye-popping amount that dwarfs many states' entire annual spending plan...
Los Angeles Times | Shane Goldmacher | Posted 07.28.2009 | Business
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he would force state workers to take a third unpaid furlough day every month if lawmakers do not pass a balance...
Bob Burnett | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
California has a budget crisis that will drastically change the quality of life in the Golden State. Who's to blame?
Byron Williams | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
If the California budget battles were a prizefight, the past several weeks was dominated by the pre-fight hype. This week begins the main event.
Judy Patrick | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
At noon on Sunday mornings the church I attend in downtown Oakland distributes about 100 bags of food. Those who line up to receive these bags are usu...
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.24.2009 | Style
Summer has arrived and with it, the season of bikinis, SPF and aloe vera -- but some familiar Washington faces seem to have an orange glow all year ro...
AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics