SF News State of California Now Running a Record $68 Billion Deficit Those extended tax deadlines are having a big unintended consequence for the state of California’s budget, as miscalculations over how much tax revenue was coming have led to a much larger deficit than than the state thought it was running, now an all-time high of $68 billion.
SF Politics In Three Short Months, California Goes From $6 Billion Surplus To Asking State Workers to Take 10% Pay Cut Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday laid out some grim financial realities for the state as it faces far less revenue and far higher expenses in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Red Pen/Black Pen: Jerry Brown Signs State Budget After Slashing Another $24 Million The state budget that no one seems particularly pleased with got Jerry Brown's John Hancock on it earlier this afternoon —but not before the governor got a chance to spill some red ink
SF News California Budget Deficit Slips Below $10 Billion Governor Jerry Brown released a revised version of his budget plan this week, and guess what? We're not doing so bad! Instead of the $25-billion-and-change deficit we had at the beginning of the
SF News Gov. Jerry Brown to State Workers: 'Hug a Republican' After failing to reach a budget deal with Republicans, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled a new tactic today to deal with the Grand Old Party. Namely, hugs. On Tuesday he encouraged state workers to
SF News Gov. Brown Approves Billions in State Budget Cuts Well, we knew this was coming: Jerry Brown slashed somewhere between $7 billion and $10.8 billion* worth of funds from the state budget today, the Chronicle reports from Sacramento. That leaves another
SF News Gov. Brown Orders State Hiring Freeze For his third executive order since taking office in January, Governor Jerry Brown has ordered all state agencies to "freeze hiring" in an effort to reduce further spending. "We have a $25 billion
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Heklina (writing for SF Weekly again) on our newly crowned drag king. [The Snitch] -- Something or other about the state budget. [SJ Merc] -- Oakland man murdered on his birthday while
SF News Arnold Turns 60 California Governor, Leo, mad fondler, and kindergarten cop Arnold Schwarzenegger turns a still-sexy 60-years-old today. The Grandpanator will spend the big day dealing with the state budget (giggle) and quite possibly getting some
misc Arnie Presents a Very Special Election What to expect over the next few months? Wall-to-wall TV ads, Arnie going across the country to suck up more corporate money, totally lame witticisms from political hacks, one side yelling "you are"
