What Happens When the Prop 30 Taxes End?
What California faces when the Proposition 30 temporary taxes run their course was a question addressed by a couple of panels, one on which I participated, at Governing Magazine’s Leadership Forum in Sacramento yesterday. Proposition 30 passed by voters last November increased sales and income taxes temporarily. The quarter-cent sales tax portion is scheduled to […]
Recall? What Recall?
Do you even recall the recall? Ten years ago this week, it was big news. California’s voters approved the yanking of Governor Gray Davis by big majorities. We made history. No statewide elected official had ever been recalled in California before, and none has since. Indeed, Davis was only the second governor in U.S. history […]
Small Business Sizes Up the Affordable Care Act
With all the media coverage of the federal government shutdown, there was some news about the historic launch the California’s health care market place but details were few. So what exactly is happening? On Oct. 1, Covered California (California’s state-run health coverage exchange), as well as other state and federally-run health care marketplaces created by […]
AB 109 Turns Two: What’s Next?
As we mark the two year anniversary of Assembly Bill 109’s implementation, realignment is still not an issue that lends itself easily to sound bites. It’s complex, it’s a long slog without immediate results and the collaboration required to get it right is unprecedented. What AB 109 offers counties is money to explore alternatives to […]