California’s Medi-Cal shortfall hits $6.2 billion with ‘unprecedented’ cost increases
The hole in California’s Medi-Cal budget seems to be bigger than what state officials reported just last week. California ...
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Cal State Monterey Bay grappling with uncertainty around its budget
The university has whittled down a roughly $4 million deficit in the past two years and is now looking stable, but ...
Budget report sheds light on Ramona Unified’s financial trends
Based on projections for the 2024-25 school year, the General Fund balance is expected to have a deficit of $5.38 million, according to a staff report. The overall General Fund ending balance is ...
‘Quiet panic’ as national rental assistance program set to run out of cash
No one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 of them in California — from losing their housing ...
Electric vehicle owners don’t buy gas. States look for other ways to pay for roads and bridges.
States with aggressive climate goals like Oregon are facing a conundrum. Electric vehicles can help reduce emissions in the transportation sector, but they also mean less gas tax revenue in government ...
Gov. Newsom's budget leaves California vulnerable to public health crisis amid Trump cuts
Gov. Newsom must seek emergency funds and significantly increase the state budget for combating infectious diseases. While ...
Opinion
Walters: Costly health care expansion worsens California’s chronic budget deficit
A phantom budget surplus continues to haunt Gavin Newsom and state legislators after lavish spending, has added billions more to California's chronic budget deficit.
Scott Wiener in the hot seat
From his efforts to slash regulations on housing construction, impose safety guardrails on artificial intelligence or protect the rights of transgender people, Wiener is — per usual — taking on an ...
Opinion
Costly health care expansion worsens California’s chronic budget deficit
A costly Medi-Cal expansion has added billions more to California's chronic budget deficit, stemming from unwise, lavish spending in 2022.