This article is about how the legislators will be willing to cut their spending to help California's budget crisis: Legislative leaders agreed Monday to cut Assembly and Senate spending by 9 million d...
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On New Year's Eve this year, instead of going out for an expensive night on the town, my wife and I went to a "progressive" dinner party in our neighborhood, one of those parties where you start at...
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's effort to retool the state's health care system ran aground Monday after some lawmakers raised concerns that it was too costly for the cash-strapped state.The $14.7 bil...
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates from the nation's largest prison system as a way to save money amid a worsening budget crisis...
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In its freshest set of troubles, the American Red Cross is cutting a third of the 3,000 jobs at its national headquarters in an overhaul intended to eliminate a $200 million deficit within two year...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger stormed into office during California's last budget crisis, promising to "end the crazy deficit spending" so the state would never go over the financial cliff again. But four ...
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It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality.The measure's purely symbolic, given that the legislative b...
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