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  • Notes from a California meltdown, Mt. Tam edition

    Most state parks survived the budget crisis. But at least one bike ride is emerging with collateral damage
  • Fixing California: Drill, baby, drill!

    Students, children, the frail and the poor are all hurt by the new budget deal. But a Houston oil company scores
  • Is California's long state nightmare finally over?

    Reports out of Sacramento suggest legislators and the governor have reached a budget deal
  • Notes from a California meltdown, the college edition

    Higher education budget cuts slam students, staff and faculty in the Golden State. Oh yeah, and everywhere else
  • Tax the wealthy to keep everyone healthy

    It's what the House of Representatives wants to do to pay for healthcare. It's a good idea, and a great slogan
  • Wanted on Craigslist: California insolvency

    The Golden State's budget crisis can't be that terrible if people are interested in buying its IOUs. Right?
  • The California Depression

    Unemployment in the Golden State hits a record 11.5 percent. Where's our New Western Deal?
  • Waiting for Obama

    States are pushing ahead with their own reforms instead of waiting for the president to act.
  • A bailout for California?

    Forget about Citigroup, AIG, or General Motors. A Golden State bankruptcy would make them all look like small fry.
  • California nightmare

    Closed parks, public education in tatters, state workers on the unemployment line: How did we get here?
  • The right's Social Security scare tactics

    Libertarians and conservatives react to the latest undramatic report on the trust fund's health by marshalling frightening, meaningless numbers.
  • Don't worry, be happy, pay lots of taxes

    Those darn Scandinavians lead the world in "life satisfaction" and super-expensive "nanny states." Could they get any more annoying?
  • Obama, the enemy of economic inequality

    The "ruthless pragmatist" is actually passionate about a central moral issue of modern American life -- the lopsided distribution of political and economic power.
  • Why Obama is taking on corporate tax havens

    It's about revenue and fulfilling campaign promises, but it may also have something to do with getting universal health insurance enacted.
  • Dick Cheney was right

    Deficits don't matter -- and Republicans who are complaining about Barack Obama's spending are hypocrites.
  • Will Wall Street tax cheats provoke reform?

    An outraged Congress wants blood, but the Obama administration seems to be biding its time, setting itself up for a larger victory.
  • More lies from the GOP

    Obama spending "$1 billion an hour" and other silliness. Watch me break it down on CNN.
  • Obama's timid liberalism

    Once, even Republican presidents like Eisenhower and Nixon believed in the public sector. Now, during a national crisis, a Democrat opts for inadequate, neoliberal, private-sector remedies. What happened?
  • This is not George Bush's budget

    Budgets are about priorities, not numbers, and President Obama's first budget marks a sea change from the past eight years.
  • States of panic

    There's fiscal chaos in capitals coast to coast and the stimulus didn't stop it. A tour of the mayhem, from the nearly bankrupt, like California, to the flush.
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