The California Legislature has just a few days to pass a 2025-26 state budget to meet the state constitution’s June 15 deadline.
The deadline will be met, if for
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After California became a U.S. state in 1850, its Legislature grappled with how state and local governments would be structured. One decree was that counties, beginning with Los Angeles,
There was an earthquake last week at City Hall, but not the kind that registers on the Richter scale. This was a political earthquake.
It occurred unexpectedly during budget negotiation
Throughout Gavin Newsom’s governorship, he and local government officials have been squabbling over financial support and accountability for programs to reduce California’s largest-in-the-nation homelessness crisis.
Simply put, Newsom
At the May 15th SMMUSD school board meeting, a stream of parents, scientists, community members and even some kindergarteners spoke out against the Boards’ plans to swap Franklin’s grass
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Thank you, thank you, tusen takk! May 29: JFK, CK Chesterton, TH White, Patrick Henry, Danny Elfman, King Charles
Forty years ago, I wrote a series of 14 articles for the Sacramento Bee describing major economic, social, cultural and political trends coursing through California as the 20th century was
Los Angeles city government did plenty to create its billion-dollar budget problem. Its elected leaders are so in thrall to public employee unions that departments grew too big and often
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised state budget assumes California will see a sharp decline in projected revenue, largely because President Donald Trump’s tariffs will slow the nation’s economy.
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