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Walters: California budget is ‘balanced’ with massive new debt
Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a 2020-21 state budget he described as “balanced, responsible and protects public safety and health, education, and services to Californians facing the greatest hardships.” Whatever its other virtues may be, the budget is...
DMV puts payday lenders to shame with predatory late fees
Californians struggling to scrape by know all too well the challenge of deciding which bills to pay now and which will have to be paid later. Unexpected problems like an illness causing them to miss work can mean falling even further behind. Progressive policymakers...
Caltrans investigations find waste and wrongdoing in state transportation programs
Craft’s office separately received 256 complaints of misconduct by state and local transportation workers in the last year and substantiated wrongdoing in 28 cases, including some involving misuse of state resources and falsification of documents. Most of the $7.4...