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PoliticsGavin Newsom’s guess on tax collections was off by $26 billion, and now California faces a record $68 billion budget deficit
By Adam Beam and The Associated PressDecember 8, 2023

PoliticsCalifornia faces record $68 billion budget deficit as slump in hiring and homebuying hits tax collections
By Adam Beam and The Associated PressDecember 7, 2023

EnvironmentWith California high-speed rail projects needing at least $75 billion, Biden’s White House kicks in $6 billion
By Adam Beam, Ken Ritter and The Associated PressDecember 6, 2023

FinancePlans to bury power lines that sparked deadly California wildfires meet resistance over $5.9 billion cost
By Adam Beam and The Associated PressOctober 17, 2023

By Adam Beam and The Associated PressOctober 9, 2023

PoliticsAs Hollywood actors’ strike enters 12th week, Gavin Newsom just spiked a bill to give unemployment benefits to striking workers
By Adam Beam and The Associated PressOctober 2, 2023

PoliticsCalifornia to fast food workers: Your minimum wage just got raised by nearly $5 to $20 per hour
By Adam Beam and The Associated PressSeptember 28, 2023

FinanceAfter calamitous wildfires, California scrambles to avert a collapse of its home insurance market by making rules more business friendly
By Adam Beam and The Associated PressSeptember 22, 2023

FinanceThe flood of insurance companies out of California is so bad that the golden state is changing its whole climate change pricing plan
By Adam Beam and The Associated PressSeptember 21, 2023

EnvironmentCalifornia orders Arrowhead bottled water to stop drawing from mountain springs it’s used for more than a century
By Adam Beam, Amy Taxin and The Associated PressSeptember 20, 2023

Personal FinanceCalifornia’s fast food workers get a huge raise to at least $20 hourly: ‘This will give us some breathing space’
By Adam Beam and The Associated PressSeptember 11, 2023

PoliticsCalifornia is first state to pass a ban on caste-based discrimination that can block victims from hiring and housing
By Adam Beam and The Associated PressSeptember 5, 2023
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