Since last
month's special election, the Los Angeles Times has
repeatedly criticized voters for sending mixed signals to
Sacramento by restraining spending even while approving dozens of
bond measures. Such "feel-good 'ballot box budgeting' initiatives"
(in the words of one columnist) have contributed to the very budget
deficit that citizens are now rebelling against, a paradox that few
in the Golden State's political class have failed to note. But in
this blame-the-voter critique, Reason Editor in Chief Matt
Welch argues, the L.A. Times has curiously excluded a
presumably influential or at least easy-to-find California
co-conspirator: The paper's own editorial board.
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