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California Matters: California’s political hopefuls remain silent on state’s job losses, unemployment (opens the original)
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In two months California voters will elect a governor, fill several other statewide offices and choose a new class of state legislators and members of Congress. The aspirants for those positions are making all sorts of promises to win votersâ approval. But few, if any, have mentioned a slow-motion menace affecting a fundamental facet of life: jobs. The state has never fully recovered from the virtual shutdown of the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It still has more than a million unemplo
California Matters: California’s budget is so convoluted that even experts are perplexed at what it contains (opens the original)
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There was a time, not too many years ago, when drafting and enacting Californiaâs budgets was a fairly transparent and straightforward process. The governor and legislators would agree on what revenues the stateâs tax systems were likely to produce in the coming year and then dicker over how the money would be spent. There were disagreements, of course, particularly when Republicans had enough legislative seats to have a say in the outcome. But in the main, the voting public would have an un
Calfornia Matters: Clashes over business regulation rage on as legislative session nears end (opens the original)
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The state Capitolâs most enduring conflict pits corporate California against four powerful interest groups over new regulations, taxes, minimum wages or other costly mandates. The specific issues may vary from year to year, although some continue for decades, but the underlying clash of interests is perpetual. The four groups arrayed against business â unions, personal injury lawyers, consumer advocates and environmentalists â contend their bills are needed to protect consumers, workers or
California Matters: California’s catch-22 — Who should pay when utilities’ power lines cause wildfires? (opens the original)
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The timing could not have been better â or worse. The findings from a long-awaited investigation into the origins of a deadly Southern California wildfire were released Tuesday, pinning it on an electrical arc from a Southern California Edison transmission tower. Simultaneously, Gov. Gavin Newsomâs administration was asking legislators to limit the financial liability of SoCal Edison and other investor-owned utilities when their equipment ignites wildfires, which have become an inescapab
California Matters: On USA’s 250th birthday, Californians should remember when we saved the world from tyranny (opens the original)
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If there ever was a moment for citizens of the United States of America to contemplate and appreciate how their nation has affected humankindâs evolution, it is now on its 250th birthday. Yes, the U.S. is now afflicted with political polarization and cultural angst over an array of specific issues, but itâs been there before and we Americans have somehow survived â even after an extremely bloody civil war. We continue to be the globeâs most powerful economic and cultural influencer thank
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