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California Republicans propose drastic cuts in social spending

On July 6, Republican lawmakers in California provided an indication of their “vision” for the state when, after much delay, they announced their proposed amendments to the revised budget presented last May by Democratic Governor Gray Davis. The Republicans presented 131 measures to close the state’s $38 billion shortfall, representing, in sum, an unprecedented assault on the working and poor people of the state and a massive windfall for big business and the rich.

•Nick Davis

California budget targets health care

Last November, the California government announced the most severe budget crisis in California’s history—a budget shortfall of $38 billion for fiscal years 2003 and 2004. One month later, Governor Gray Davis imposed emergency budget cuts of $10.2 billion. These cuts are exacerbating a chronic health care crisis affecting nearly all counties in California.

•Nick Davis, Rafael Azul

Budget deadline looms for California

Ten days before the statutory June 15 deadline for a budget agreement in the legislature, Wall Street banks reluctantly approved an $11 billion loan to the California state government. The loan would allow the state to limp through the summer without running out of cash. However, Wall Street credit agencies warned that the loan is contingent on legislative approval of Governor Gray Davis’s May 15 budget revision.

•Nick Davis

Los Angeles antiwar protests draw tens of thousands

On Saturday, March 22, a crowd peacefully marched from Hollywood and Vine to the CNN building on Sunset Boulevard, where demonstrators rallied to protest the network's broadcasting of government lies and glorification of war. (Organizers estimated the crowd at 20,000, while police estimates were much lower.) Hundreds of Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol police lined the route on foot, bicycles and horseback.

•Kim Saito, Nick Davis

California budget crisis deepens

California’s massive $36.5 billion deficit is growing as time drags on with no budget agreement for the upcoming 2004 fiscal year. Governor Gray Davis’s budget proposal, which is wildly unpopular among California residents, will terminate many social services statewide, cut education funding, drive many towns and some cities into insolvency and end the political careers of many State Assembly politicians.

•Nick Davis

Financial crisis staggers California

California Governor Gray Davis, facing a massive $36 billion budget deficit, is pressing for adoption of an austerity budget for the current year in addition to the $10.2 billion in mid-year reductions which came in December. Under threat that California bond ratings will be downgraded, or that the state will be declared insolvent, the Democratic governor is engineering massive cuts in social programs and tax increases that affect the poorest and most vulnerable residents of the state.

•Nick Davis

Los Angeles businesses press for expulsion of downtown homeless

The Central City Association, an organization representing 300 downtown Los Angeles businesses and wealthy investors, is pushing for legislation to banish the homeless from skid row. The legislation would establish, among other things, an anti-encampment ordinance, a permanent LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) outpost in the area with a fast-track downtown police court and a police street-crime patrol to catch drug dealers and other criminal suspects. Included is proposed legislation to enforce existing laws against public urination and audits of the Los Angeles Homeless Agency and individual service providers.

•Nick Davis, Rafael Azul

Los Angeles health system near meltdown

Public and private health services in Los Angeles County face devastation under the weight of financial deficits brought about by years of attacks by both Democratic and Republican politicians at the county, state and federal levels.

•Nick Davis
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