http://news.yahoo.com/local/Fresno/45102 Yahoo! Local News - KQED: Capital Notes en-us Seems like an appropriate time, what with the state handing out IOUs, to add our own. The Capital Notes Podcast is AWOL this week, but will be back next Friday. Which means, barring any budget news this weekend, check back here for postings and more after the Independence Day holiday. Do like [...] http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Fresno/KQED:_Capital_Notes/SIG=12h581cop/**http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.kqed.org%2Fcapitalnotes%2F2009%2F07%2F03%2Fwe-owe-ya-one%2F http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/07/03/we-owe-ya-one/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:05:10 +0000 It was a busy second day of the new fiscal year at the printing facility tucked inside a quiet business park in a shaded east Sacramento neighborhood. But unlike most days, they weren't printing thousands of checks paid by the state of California. This time, they were printing documents that aren't worth anything. [...] http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Fresno/KQED:_Capital_Notes/SIG=12lo561uh/**http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.kqed.org%2Fcapitalnotes%2F2009%2F07%2F02%2Fmoney-for-nothing%2F http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/07/02/money-for-nothing/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:35:10 +0000 The battle over California's gaping budget hole is probably going to get more intense before it ends... as just about everyone thinks someone else is to blame. Actually, the title of the posting isn't quite true (though an homage to a great song); it appears the state budget gap grew overnight to $25.3 billion, after a [...] http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Fresno/KQED:_Capital_Notes/SIG=134678qt9/**http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.kqed.org%2Fcapitalnotes%2F2009%2F07%2F01%2Fnothing-changes-on-new-years-day%2F http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/07/01/nothing-changes-on-new-years-day/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:05:10 +0000 It was an unusual ending to a long day, the final day of the 2008-2009 fiscal year. But there was no surprise ending: the conventional wisdom won out, as the state slipped into the new budget year with no solutions in place to a deficit that could be as large as $24 billion. The final [...] http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Fresno/KQED:_Capital_Notes/SIG=12folk6g8/**http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.kqed.org%2Fcapitalnotes%2F2009%2F07%2F01%2Fend-of-days%2F http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/07/01/end-of-days/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:05:10 +0000 Governor Schwarzenegger's advisers say he's made it clear to Democratic legislative leaders that he will accept an alternate set of proposals from his $24 billion May deficit solution, one that neither eliminates entire programs nor raises taxes. The proposal was laid out in a background briefing for Capitol reporters this afternoon. While reporters were allowed [...] http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Fresno/KQED:_Capital_Notes/SIG=12rnlul3c/**http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.kqed.org%2Fcapitalnotes%2F2009%2F06%2F29%2Fguvs-plan-b-deficit-fix%2F http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/06/29/guvs-plan-b-deficit-fix/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:50:10 +0000 No one around the state Capitol believes there's an additional $3 billion in easy spending reductions just lollygagging inside the recesses of the budget. Okay, almost no one. But should the current budget deficit impasse drag on beyond midnight Wednesday, it appears that's how much more money will need to be found to satisfy anyone [...] http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Fresno/KQED:_Capital_Notes/SIG=140cbfoju/**http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.kqed.org%2Fcapitalnotes%2F2009%2F06%2F29%2Fwhen-3-billion-becomes-almost-more-important-than-24-billion%2F http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/06/29/when-3-billion-becomes-almost-more-important-than-24-billion/ Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:05:10 +0000 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:05:10 +0000