Summary
Add potholes and broken water mains to the long list of annoyances. Add hours in emergency rooms and longer lines at food banks to growing measures of pain.
The closed-door decisions to seize $4billion from counties and towns, including gas taxes to repair streets, and to cut $124million for children's health insurance helped the "Big Five" seal the deal on the state budget Monday. They also guarantee that the harsh impacts of the budget will extend from Sacramento to every street corner in the state. Lucky will be the Californian who emerges unscathed.See the full content of this document
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Sparing Few and Frustrating All
That should surprise no one. It was unrealistic to assume that state services would continue as before amid a steep recessio...
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