Feds seize heroin worth $17 million, indict 21 in Mexico, California drug ringSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Authorities say federal drug agents have broken up a narcotics ring responsible for importing heroin valued at $17.5 million into California from Mexico. Schwarzenegger, California lawmakers’ approval rating fall to new lowsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s popularity has sunk to a new low of 28 percent as he heads into his final months in office grasping for a legacy after a bitter budget fight, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California. Schwarzenegger to call special session on taxes; grants tax commission another extensionSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’ll call a special session of the state Legislature to address California’s volatile tax system. Schwarzenegger’s California budget draws critics from Democrats
Schwarzenegger inks budget, ends California cash crisisSACRAMENTO - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed off on the state’s $84.6-billion budget Tuesday, ending a months-long cash crisis that forced the most populous US state to issue vendors IOU notes instead of payments. States desperate for cash eye cuts at prisons, worrying someST. LOUIS — Tony Ferranto worries as he walks his patrol at maximum-security Menard Correctional Center in Illinois. Schwarzenegger vetoes child welfare, Healthy Families spending as he signs $85B Calif. budgetSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a revised $85 billion budget Tuesday that he said contained “the good, the bad and the ugly,” including additional cuts to child welfare programs, health care for the poor and AIDS prevention efforts. Schwarzenegger likely to cut health, welfare in signing revised Calif. budgetSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday is expected to use his line-item veto power to make additional cuts to California’s latest spending plan — a move advocates fear could further hurt the poor. Bond analyst: California’s new budget filled with accounting tricks, unlikely to help ratingSACRAMENTO, Calif. — A bond analyst was skeptical Monday about California’s revised budget, saying it was filled with accounting tricks that would do little to improve the state’s poor credit rating. Schwarzenegger likely to cut health, welfare further in signing revised Calif. budgetSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Human services advocates say more cuts to health and welfare programs are likely this week when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issues line-item vetoes before signing California’s revised budget. HARD TIMES: Falling state budgets, rising class sizes at crowded schools when students returnWASHINGTON — Like a seesaw on the school playground, falling state budgets are pushing class sizes higher. California has budget deal in place, but officials concerned fiscal woes may not be overSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California officials are warily awaiting the next round of state revenue figures, concerned that their latest budget-balancing efforts may not be enough to end a seemingly endless stream of deficits. Calif. legislators approve budget deal after all-nighter but warn fix isn’t permanentSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Officials say there’s no guarantee that California’s budget troubles are over for now, even after state lawmakers approved a complex package of spending cuts, raids on local government funding and accounting maneuvers to fill a gigantic budget deficit. California lawmakers pass budget-balancing plan, send bills to SchwarzeneggerSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lawmakers on Friday approved a complex package of spending cuts, accounting maneuvers and raids on local government coffers to fill California’s gigantic budget deficit, providing hope that the state might begin a slow climb out of a deep financial hole. California Assembly passes most of $26B budget-balancing plan, sending it to SchwarzeneggerSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state Assembly has approved a plan to close most of California’s $26 billion budget deficit, sending the package of financial fixes to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. California Senate passes budget-balancing plan, which awaits action in the AssemblySACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Senate on Friday approved a plan to close the state’s $26 billion budget deficit, providing a glimmer of hope after weeks of fiscal gloom and putting the deal’s fate into the divided hands of the Assembly. Calif lawmakers struggle to pass budget-balancing deal as many of its pieces come under fireSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The optimism that began the week when a deal was announced to close California’s $26 billion budget deficit gave way Friday to the workaday reality of pushing its many parts through a highly partisan legislature. California lawmakers begin long night of voting on compromise to close $26B budget deficitSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Friday were considering a complex budget deal struck by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders that is designed to reverse the state’s slide toward insolvency. Calif. lawmakers begin what is expected to be a drawn-out vote on budget-balancing billsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Thursday began voting on a complex budget deal struck by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders that is designed to reverse the state’s slide toward insolvency. Calif. lawmakers begin what is expected to be a drawn-out debate over budget-balancing billsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Senate has taken the first step toward approving a massive legislative package designed to close the state’s $26 billion deficit. California lawmakers face long debate before $26B in cuts and budget tricks is a done dealSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers braced for a long, late-night debate Thursday on a complex budget plan struck by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders that is designed to reverse the state’s slide toward insolvency. Schwarzenegger addresses woes of Calif. budget cuts with giant knife in online video messageSACRAMENTO, Calif. — When a tall, muscular man wields a 2-foot-long knife on-camera, it’s usually not for a thank-you video. Schwarzenegger introduces latest Twitter video about Calif. budget crisis with giant knifeSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ever the entertainer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has posted a Twitter video related to the state’s budget crisis in which he picks up an oversized knife and jokes about autographing state vehicles that will be auctioned to raise cash. Seventh-grader confronts GOP lawmaker over cuts to Calif. schools, asks why students sufferSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Even kids are fed up with California’s budget problems. Deal to close Calif’s $26B deficit will be tested in Legislature, which finds much to dislikeSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The deal between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders to close California’s $26 billion budget deficit may have been the easy part. Now they have to sell their plan to a skeptical Legislature amid partisan backpedaling, threatened legal action and potential walkouts by state government workers. California Legislature issues apology for past persecution of Gold Rush-era Chinese immigrantsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature didn’t let a weeks-long budget debate prevent it from unanimously apologizing for the state’s past persecution of the Chinese immigrants who built the state’s railroads, gold mines and agriculture industry. California State University system OKs 20 percent fee hike to deal with massive budget deficitLONG BEACH, Calif. — The California State University system raised student fees Tuesday by 20 percent as part of a budget plan that would also shrink enrollment and furlough nearly all employees for two days a month. Deal to close Calif. deficit shapes up as a temporary fix, unlikely to solve fiscal crisisSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s deal to close its $26 billion budget gap may end up doing what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had hoped to avoid: kicking the state’s problems down the road. Now the tough part: Calif.’s budget deal must be sold to lawmakers, who will hear objectionsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s legislative leaders on Tuesday began lobbying their rank-and-file members to vote for a compromise designed to close the state’s $26 billion shortfall even as advocates objected to health care, transportation and public safety cuts. McClatchy posts higher 2nd-quarter profit despite drop in revenueSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. said Tuesday that layoffs and other cost-cutting helped it double its second-quarter profit despite a continued plunge in advertising. |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a revised $85 billion budget and targeted welfare for deeper cuts, prompting threats from Democratic lawmakers to block his political agenda during his final months in office.”This kind of game playing by the governor doesn’t bode well for success in terms of water, corrections, pensions or any of the other items that he is looking to in order to build some kind of real legacy,” Assembly Speaker Karen Bass said in a statement Tuesday after the Republican governor announced his vetoes.
