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California crunch

It shouldn’t be news to anyone that California is in a major crunch these days, and not the granola kind. The budget crisis has gotten so bad that in Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has threatened to shut down the entire city government for two days a week to save money.
KPCC’s Air Talk had [...]

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Financing the fires

The fires burning in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles have already cost two lives and thousands of acres of protected land. How much will the emergency spending to control the disaster cost the already bankrupt state?
Patt Morrison of Pasadena-based public radio NPR station KPCC reported this morning that the California Department of Finance [...]

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