Tuesday, July 1st 2008 (8:13am)
New Fiscal Year - No Budget
Today is the first day of the new fiscal year in California, but, as in years past, there is no new budget in place. The Sacramento Bee’s Daniel Weintrib wonders how different this year is. From “Capitol Alert“:
Actually, the constitution requires the Legislature to pass a budget by June 15, but July 1 has become the defacto deadline for getting it done.
No such luck this year, which is pretty typical. But this year has a different feel to it. The sides are so far apart that serious budget negotiations have not even begun. It’s almost as if the legislative leaders don’t even know where to begin because they disagree so fundamentally about the condition of state government and how to fix it.
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