SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Ten months into a pandemic that has overwhelmed hospitals and prompted government shutdowns that left millions of people out of work and forced many small businesses to close, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday revealed the most expensive budget in state history a $227 billion spending plan highlighted by a $15 billion one-time surplus.
Republican Sen. Melissa Melendez slammed Newsom’s plan for its lack of details.
Melendez joined Good Morning San Diego to share her thoughts on the budget.
“This budget provides no reopening plan nor the necessary relief for small businesses; it provides no successful roadmap to alleviate the growing housing, homelessness and mental health crises; and it provides no actionable help to the millions of school aged children who are falling behind academically,” she said in a statement.
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In the decades since engineers first blanketed the Los Angeles River with concrete, working-class communities along its armored banks have struggled with blight, poverty and crowding unintended consequences perhaps of an epic bid to control Mother Nature.
Now, as many of these neighborhoods suffer disproportionately higher rates of infection from COVID-19 and as the nation seeks to atone for racial and institutional injustices laid bare in the police killing of George Floyd famed architect Frank Gehry has unveiled a bold plan to transform the river into more than just a concrete flood channel and establish it as an unprecedented system of open space.
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In a year of radical upheaval, this much has remained constant: California’s elected representatives still aren’t all that representative.
For the third time in six years, CalMatters has compiled the demographics and self-identifications of the state’s legislators and constitutional officers.They still don’t much resemble the state they represent although they’re getting closer. This year doesn’t quite break the record for number of women in the Legislature (it’s still only 32%) but voters elected a 25-year-old and the Legislature’s first openly bisexual member (both are the same person).
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California expects record revenues in stunning Covid budget reversal
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SACRAMENTO California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday unveiled a record $227 billion January spending plan that marks a dramatic reversal from summer fears that the state would head off a financial cliff.
California s budget has benefited from massive stock market gains and income growth among its most affluent residents, particularly those in the high-flying Bay Area. The budget picture reveals a dramatic disconnect between upper class residents who have built wealth during the pandemic and those struggling to avoid eviction and put food on the table.