California Is Either Recovering or Imploding. We're Not Quite Sure Yet.
Income tax revenues for January exceed expectations. That may not be good news.
State Fiscal Crisis
New Republic Embraces Fiction of California's Balanced Budget
Everything's fine, as long as you completely ignore the public pension crisis that is bankrupting us all!
Amidst Budget Crisis, Calif. School Superintendents Get Pay Raises
Cashing in rather than cutting back
Gov. Brown Looks to Hike Court Fees to Balance Budget
Californians may have to pay even more to fight tickets or access state records
Legislative Analyst Agrees Brown's Calif. Budget is Balanced
Assuming, of course, actual spending matches the budget, which it never does
Illinois Punts on Pension Reform While Governor Flails Around Haplessly
Whines about "political timidity" while failing to organize a solid solution
Ill. Governor Proposes Commission to Fix Pension Crisis
Leading from behind. Far, far behind. Like from behind Indiana.
What Fresh Horrors Await Californians in the Next Budget?
State casts about for new stones to get blood from
Calif. Prop. 13 Discussion Shows How Easy it Is to Mislead When Talking About "Fairness" in Taxes
Trying to cast businesses in California as creating a tax burden for residents requires a certain amount of deliberate contextual blindness
Audit: Calif. Parks Dept. Deliberately Underreported Finances
Hid funds from the state in midst of fiscal crisis
Highest Paid Calif. CHP Officer Took in $484,000 Last Year
Now retired, pulls in annual pension of $175,000, while working another job
Latest News in California's Skill at Revenue Projection: It Still Sucks
Don't bank on that Prop. 30 money, kids
Bloomberg Takes Aim at the Fiscal Horror Show of State Employee Salaries
Fiddling with the rules while the economy burns
Calif. Employee Pay Spirals Out of Control
State psychiatrist rakes in More than $800,000 a year
State, Local Debt Leaves Texans On the Hook for $9K Each
That's only the fifth heaviest burden in the country
States Ignore Real Pension Reform at Own Peril
Feeble attempts thus far aren't fixing problems
New Jersey Revenue $254 Million Less Than Forecast
Nine percent drop in corporation tax collections
Gail Collins Hates the Lone Star State
Times columnist messes with Texas and loses in laugh-free, fact-challenged airdrop.
Get Serious About Governing, Democrats
No amount of crying over evil Scott Walker will help governments fix their bleeding balance sheets
Michigan Is Big Labor's Next Big Target
The fight over public sector unions moves to the Great Lakes State
Unions Flood Wisconsin In Final Days of Walker Recall
When "We Are Wisconsin" really means "We are union members from New Jersey, Alaska and other states"
