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Podcast: Sue Me Summer Now that the budget is wrapped and the Legislature has gone on summer vacation, things are all said and done in Sacramento, right? Not so fast. This week's Capital Notes Podcast examines the soon-to-come battles over the budget and its … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Happy New Year Your idea of a fun day in July may be sitting poolside with a cold drink. But in Sacramento, it's celebrating the passage of time... in fiscal terms, that is. And this year, unlike so many others, the budget is … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Spare Some Change? Who says legislators aren't doing a better job these days of spending less of your money? After all, they are spending almost $49,000 a day less. That's their missing salary and per diem payments, of course. This week's Capital Notes … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Separation of Powers The legislative branch has the power of the purse, the executive branch the power to reject those spending plans. A simple part of every civics lesson, rarely on display more clearly than this week in Sacramento. But also quite clear: … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Esoteric and Significant That's one way to describe the process of redistricting, which is all the buzz this weekend in California political circles. On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we take a look at the draft maps released on Friday morning by the … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Framing the Debate As the calendar ticks toward the first of the formal state budget deadlines, expect a lot more attempts by everyone to frame the issues... and solutions... in ways to their liking. This week's Capital Notes Podcast examines some of those … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Not So Surprising There's a lot of talk about calamity this week — courtesy of one hyperpublicized apocalyptic prediction — but hey, we've been living with the doom and gloom for years in California... at least when it comes to the state's finances. … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: From Taxes to Tinkerbell While the state's budget drama continued to be front and center this week, it morphed into two heretofore unseen images: a sustained, week long public protest and a relatively complete blueprint from a Republican caucus of how to erase the … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Burn the Ships! One of the more memorable quotes from Governor Jerry Brown in a big national newspaper profile this weekend is the reference to a Spanish conquistador ensuring there would be no retreat by burning their ships on the beach. Of course, … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Road Show If it's Thursday, it must be Santa Clarita. Or so it was for Governor Jerry Brown this week... and... for our Capital Notes Podcast. Anthony York of the Los Angeles Times and I were both on the road with the … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: The Big Picture This week, by necessity but maybe also by luck, we're stepping back to look at the big picture of the budget saga of 2011. Our Capital Notes Podcast was recorded midweek at a panel event in downtown Sacramento where Anthony … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Plan B The only thing we may have learned this week about the state's budget saga is that Governor Jerry Brown's Plan A — an early June special election on extending taxes — is now an official no-go. On to Plan B. … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Speedy Marathon Maybe it's just me who's noticed that the state's projected budget deficit of $26.6 billion lines up nicely to the miles run in a marathon, the time honored gut-check of road races. And yet, this race is being run as … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Make Me An Offer For weeks, Governor Jerry Brown said that all he wanted from Republicans was specifics about what they want in exchange for supporting a statewide election on taxes. Now that's he's getting those details, can he close the deal? This week's … Continue reading » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Running On Empty On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we check the fuel gauge on the Guv's quest for a budget deal — and special tax election deal — by the end of next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Budget Vows This week's Capital Notes Podcast (yes, we're back) recaps a week in which budget conferees began to meet, new promises were made by some Republicans, and the governor joked that he could help move those promises along... if needed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Kabuki 2011 The most recent California governor became enamored with describing the annual state budget process as synonymous with the Japanese dance drama kabuki. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hard Surfaces On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we gauge how the governor is doing on his quest for a budget deal in just a matter of weeks — a quest that met head first with some unhappy local officials this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's Not to Not Like? On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we check in on the ever strengthening political storm over the governor's budget plans and the sense that, so far, Brown seems to be taking it in stride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budget Maneuvers On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we take our first look at the governor's budget -- and perhaps more importantly, the politics of the proposal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brown Gets Down... to Work Jerry Brown's return to the inner sanctum as governor began with a week of new vibes, new faces, and perhaps new ways to tackle old problems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budget Prepping This week's Capital Notes Podcast continues our look at the preparations for the first budget of the new governor, and the message being sent to everyone to buckle in for a rough ride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budgets Old, Budgets New Everything you always wanted to know, or maybe didn't want to know, about the state budget was hashed and rehashed this week -- by two different leading men. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prologue, Epilogue It's an odd time in the political world, waiting for one saga to begin while putting the final touches on the saga that's just ended. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transition Blues This week's Capital Notes Podcast looks at the transition challenge now faced by Governor-elect Jerry Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerry on Jerry This week's Capital Notes Podcast is a dip into the not-too-distant archives for my springtime conversation with now Governor-elect Jerry Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brown and Blue This week, a special Capital Notes Podcast -- some insight into the election offered by a daylong event featuring some of the state's sharpest political minds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Big Mo This week's Capital Notes Podcast assesses the last throes of the Jerry Brown vs. Meg Whitman contest, with a quick glance at today's new numbers in the U.S. Senate race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crunch Time In this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we examine the race for governor and the race for the U.S. Senate, as a new statewide poll shows the Democratic candidates in both races ahead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chilean Rescue, Chilly Debate Capitol Weekly's Anthony York and I chat about the highlights and lowlights of this week's faceoff between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman, and the state of the race with only 18 days to go. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Burnout and Sizzle On this special Monday edition, Capitol Weekly's Anthony York and I sift through the various items, big and small, from the final budget deal, with a look at how it all came together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meg and the Maid Capitol Weekly's Anthony York and I try to sift through the issues and allegations that have been dominating discussion of the governor's race for the last few days. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poring Over Polls Jerry and Meg neck and neck. Barbara over Carly by a few points. Those are some of the gems from statewide polls released just in the last 24 hours, and the focus of this week's Capital Notes Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mano a Mano Call this the first big fight week in the race for governor: accusatory ads, intraparty tensions, and just good old fashioned sniping between Democrats and Republicans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tick, Tick, Tick That ticking sound is getting louder. For lawmakers inside the state Capitol, it's the ticking of the minutes, hours, and days since the fiscal year began without a budget. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hot August Nights The temperature outside the state Capitol these days is less important than the temperature inside, as the budget and the final push on legislation leave everyone sweating it out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Doldrums On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we examine the very few rumblings about budget negotiations here in Sacramento, a bad sign given we're eight weeks into the new fiscal year. Bets, anyone? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Endless Summer You've just got to believe that the Democratic nominee for governor wishes the summer of 2010 would never end. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deep In The Heart of Taxes Sure, that's a corny headline. But this week's Capital Notes Podcast is, in fact, mostly about taxes: the tax proposal from legislative Democrats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waiting To Exhale On this week's Capital Notes Podcast (yes, we're back), we check in on the not-so-speedy budget negotiations and the many swirling rumors and strategies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slow Ride On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we chat about the week's budget news, and negotiations that seem to be focused on a subset of the $19 billion deficit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slow Ride Capitol Weekly's Anthony York and I take a look at the week's budget news, and the other big story from the statehouse: an effort to push the $11 billion water bond off of this fall's statewide ballot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzzzzzzz The political buzz this week includes a discussion of the Capitol budget discussion, some big news this week on the subject of state worker pensions, and the race for governor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website So Yesterday On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we do our own post-mortem on all of the marquis matchups, some of the other interesting races, and the results on the statewide ballot measures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time's Up On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we take one last look at the biggest races on next Tuesday's ballot ... headlined by today's new Field Poll showing a commanding lead in the GOP primary for Meg Whitman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dinero As with most editions of the Capital Notes Podcast these days, we're focused on money: the lack of money in the state budget and the vast sums being spent in the race for governor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Under Pressure This week's podcast examines the wild week that was in the race for governor and in the early skirmishes over the state's ever-bleeding budget. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meg Whitman This special Thursday Capital Notes Podcast features an extended interview with Meg Whitman. The GOP gubernatorial candidate discussed her plans to fix the state's many woes, and some talk about the controversies of the campaign. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ouch! This week's Capital Notes Podcast, a little late in arriving due to the afternoon release of a revised budget, is full of pain: $19 billion in tough decisions about state government programs and the folks who depend on those programs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sticky Wicket On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we look back at last week's GOP gubernatorial debate and the midweek chatter about polls showing the contest could be tightening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adios, Maldonado No, that headline doesn't mean the new Republican lieutenant governor is going away. It's just that now he finally has the job he's wanted for months, the drama/news is over and we'll soon be moving on to other topics. But not quite yet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John, Anthony, Lana On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we pull off a two-fer: discuss the week's political news and try to entertain an eight-year-old who's tagging along for Take Your Child to Work Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Poizner Steve Poizner says he's a truth teller. But if that's the case, do people want to hear it? This week's Capital Notes Podcast features a one-on-one conversation with the Republican candidate for governor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Education Educational political ads and education funding in the budget are both parts of this week's Capital Notes Podcast. But there's oh so much more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spring Break Fever Capitol Weekly's Anthony York and I take a look at candidates' filing complaints and demanding fairness, the money narrative in the race for governor, and a quick overview of some of the legislative races to watch for June. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Moolah This week we examine the latest data on campaign cash in the race for governor, plus some of the polling from this week on this race and the contest for the U.S. Senate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Survey Says... This week's Capital Notes Podcast takes a look at the two races in the news — the contest for governor, with most of the talk about the GOP race — and the race for U.S. Senate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budgets and Blunders This week's Capital Notes Podcast stretches from the halls of the state Capitol to the campaign trail of those who want to be governor, and some political stories that we may be talking about for a long time to come. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerry Brown This week's Capital Notes Podcast features a one-on-one interview with the newest candidate in the 2010 race for governor, Jerry Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerry Brown This week's Capital Notes Podcast features a one-on-one interview with the newest candidate in the 2010 race for governor, Jerry Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Small Steps On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we look at this week's budget news... small steps towards closing the $20 billion gap, but steps nonetheless. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Battle Lines The next statewide election is still 109 days away, but you'd be hard pressed to know that given the battle lines already going up in some of the state's biggest contests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Maldo Morass This week's Capital Notes Podcast is solely devoted to Thursday's oddball events in the nomination of Abel Maldonado to be lieutenant governor, events that might send the whole thing to court. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wannabes This week's podcast is all about this week's most talked about job seekers: a guy who wants the state's #2 ranking job and two folks who want to be top dog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warming Up Just like leftovers are best after a little bit of a reheating in the microwave, this week's Capital Notes Podcast finds a few politics and policy morsels that, while not new, are worth a second bite. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Polls & Potshots Less policy. More politics. That's this week's Capital Notes Podcast in a nutshell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Potomac Fever Potomac Fever? Isn't the Capital Notes Podcast a California politics podcast? Sure, but this week the Golden State's influence and representation in Washington, D.C. took center stage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Arnold, All The Time On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, a full wrap up on the governor's proposals for cleaning up the budget red ink ... a State of the State speech chock full of policy proposals ... and political battles over both just around the corner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Red Ink Year In Review On this special Capital Notes Podcast, we recap the year that's coming to a close ... from numerous budget fights to winners (maybe only one) and losers (just about everyone else). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website By The Numbers This week's Capital Notes Podcast is all about the numbers. First, this week's new statewide poll looking at the race for governor offers up some interesting scenarios, even though it's still a long ways to November 2. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Now What? That's a fair question to ask for those involved in two of our topics on this week's edition of the Capital Notes Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Checking in on 2010 On this week's podcast, we take a pause from weekly events to check in on where the candidates and campaigns stand as 2009 comes to a close. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing Red, Again On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we take a look at this week's prediction of a $20.7 billion budget gap and what that means for lawmakers once they return to Sacramento. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We're Back Our hiatus has come to an end! This week: a look back on the big water deal, the guessing game of who gets to be California's next "lite guv," and the tempest over recording phone calls at the office of the Attorney General. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Unfinished Podcast This week's conversation focused on water, renewable energy, and prisons. Trouble is, due to a technical snafu, the audio recording never made it to prisons, and actually stops abruptly in our chat on energy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Personal Politics The legislative year is coming down to the final hours, and much of the action has been intense and, in some cases, personal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11th Hour Frenzy We're back with a week-ending Capital Notes Podcast, and a look at the frenzy over prison reform, a comprehensive water fix, and what might be one of the last-minute power plays hoping to sneak in before the final gavel falls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recess Kerfuffle Capitol Weekly's Anthony York and I recap Governor Schwarzenegger's budget vetoes, the likely legal kerfuffle over those vetoes, and new developments in the very long kerfuffle over prison overcrowding. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twentysomething Billion This week's Capital Notes Podcast is all deficit agreement, all the time. Of course, we're not sure exactly how big either the proposal is... or the problem, hence the term "Twentysomething." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website School Daze On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we examine the status of sputtering budget talks. Most notably, the battle over Proposition 98 — Test 1, maintenance factor, you know you love it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Of Chaos and Conspiracies The impasse inside the state Capitol seems so intense that it's led some to begin to chart some interesting conspiracies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Step Up, Two Steps Back You know it's been an odd week when the Legislature rejects a plan to buy itself more time. But that's where things stand as of this morning, and this week's Capital Notes Podcast examines the week so far, from stalled spending cuts to the specter of IOUs and beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Act Two We examine the Democratic budget proposal, the road ahead for negotiations over compromise, and the uncertainty of how much time lawmakers have... before the state runs out of money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chess or Chicken? We examine where things stand inside the state Capitol on resolving California's $20+ billion budget deficit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budget Bloodbath It was a tough week for those who depend on a myriad of state social services, and it may only get worse... as California finds itself in a financial tailspin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Part of 'No'...? We examine the results and the messages of the voters rejecting all of the budget-balancing proposals in Tuesday's special election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Storm Front On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we talk about new deficit projections, what those numbers might mean in terms of budget solutions, and the big budget related election now only four days away. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crunch Time The special election campaign pivots towards a controversial theme as crunch time nears... state government's cash crunch appears to be getting worse... and Assembly Republicans crunch up their veteran leader and put a new person in his stead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oxymoronic Tendencies In this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we discuss this week's bombshell poll on the six budget ballot measures. Might the campaign be due for a big shakeup? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think Green On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, a look at the dustup this week over staff salaries in the Assembly, and money raised and spent in the special election campaign. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Power Plays Powerful players and the special election. A powerful pol considers jumping into a new contest. Power brokers at the Capitol. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spring Break On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we take a look at how some of the special election campaigns are shaping up — including a sample of the first campaign ads. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budget Ballot Battle A new poll, positions taken, and strategy being mapped out. In a nutshell, that's this week in the contest over the budget related measures on the May 19 special election ballot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Triggers and Stimuli Capitol Weekly's Anthony York and I take a look at the infamous budget "trigger" debate as well as the first public hearings about how California will spend tens of billions of dollars in federal stimulus money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Election Strategies There are six budget related measures on the May 19 special election ballot... and maybe six dozen intriguing storylines about the campaign and its impact on state government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Budget Burrito You could call the May 19 special election a "budget burrito." We examine the six budget-related measures on the ballot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shifting Into Campaign Gear On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we shift gears and hit the gas towards the May 19 special statewide election, where six proposals from the long budget debate must be ratified by the voters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shifting Into Campaign Gear On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we shift gears and hit the gas towards the May 19 special statewide election, where six proposals from the long budget debate must be ratified by the voters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shifting Into Campaign Gear On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we shift gears and hit the gas towards the May 19 special statewide election, where six proposals from the long budget debate must be ratified by the voters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shifting Into Campaign Gear On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we shift gears and hit the gas towards the May 19 special statewide election, where six proposals from the long budget debate must be ratified by the voters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website At Last In this week's sleep deprived Capital Notes Podcast, we take the big picture view of the budget deal and the process that made it happen. Capitol Weekly editor Anthony York and I walk away from our two twittering projects of the week to consider what happens next. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website At Last In this week's sleep deprived Capital Notes Podcast, we take the big picture view of the budget deal and the process that made it happen. Capitol Weekly editor Anthony York and I walk away from our two twittering projects of the week to consider what happens next. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website York Solves Budget? Is it possible that my fellow podcasting reporter has stumbled upon a solution to the state budget impasse? That, and other budget marathon weekend items, is part of this special Monday edition of the Capital Notes Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Furloughs Fer Real This week's Capital Notes Podcast examines the still going budget deficit negotiations and the furlough. Plus, Capitol Weekly editor Anthony York walks us through the results of the newspaper's first poll on California politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website External Pressures On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, Capitol Weekly editor Anthony York and I gab about everything from Governor Schwarzenegger's court victory in the fight over state worker furloughs to next week's first unpaid state bills and invoices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stakeout On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we gab about everything from Governor Schwarzenegger's court victory in the fight over state worker furloughs to next week's first unpaid state bills and invoices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stakeout This week, Capitol Weekly editor Anthony York and I chat up the week's small state budget news from inside the statehouse — more specifically, the hallway outside Governor Schwarzenegger's office, where we waited for "Big 5" negotiations to wrap up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State of the State Governor Schwarzenegger's 2009 State of the State address is now one for the history books... but not without a sifting through on this week's edition of the Capital Notes Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Once More With Feeling On this first Capital Notes Podcast of 2009, we catch you up on Governor Schwarzenegger's new budget plan, his veto of the Democratic plan, and everything in between. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leon Panetta Our holiday edition of the Capital Notes Podcast features a conversation with Leon Panetta about the issue of the year: budget gridlock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Deficit to All We look back at a very busy week on the state budget front. From competing proposals to defeated bills, controversial solutions, and by the governor to veto the Democratic plan...and lay off state workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capitol Turkeys On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we examine the total collapse of this week's efforts to stem the flood of the budget red ink. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Election Overload On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, a look back at the good, the bad, the... you know... of Election 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pensions, Politicking, Polls On this week's Capital Notes Podcast (okay, the second one this week), we examine everything from California's fiscal problems and the economic impact on the state's big pension fund to politicking in Ohio, new poll numbers, and beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Must Be The Money Missing the end-of-week wrapup due to scheduling conflicts, we've reconvened for a Monday edition of the chat. Capitol Weekly editor Anthony York and I talk about the latest on state government's finances, and we examine some of the competitive races this fall in the Assembly and Senate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Ya Spare A Dime? The week's big news focused both on fears about Wall Street's ability to lend the state a few billion bucks as a bridge loan, and the brand new (or just heretofore invisible) state budget deficit. Capitol Weekly editor Anthony York and I also take a quick glance at some of the cash piling up... or not... for ballot measures to be decided by voters on November 4. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Me The end of the year at the state Capitol is our focus this week on the Capital Notes Podcast, as we examine the bills signed or vetoed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. We examine the ubiquitous "blanket veto" message that made its way onto 136 bills, and the angry comments from supporters of several health care bills that the governor nixxed, as well as the environmental legislation he signed into law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website That's a Wrap, Budget Fans On this week's edition of the Capital Notes Podcast, a look at this long and chaotic... and final... week of the 2008 state budget impasse. The Legislature gives its final seal of approval later today, and we examine the deal... how it scores on the gimmick scale... and what happens next. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Schwarzenegger Speaks This week, an early edition of the Capital Notes Podcast, featuring Wednesday's full interview with the governor inside the suite of his offices at the state Capitol. Our conversation focuses entirely on the state budget, with a brief mention of the recall petition to remove him from office, filed this week by the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GOP-alooza On this week's edition of the Capital Notes Podcast, a closer look at two California Republicans who were getting attention this week not for what they do now... but for what they might want to do in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Still Jammed Budget Logjam BUDGET DAY PLUS 52 — On this week's edition (a second edition!) of the Capital Notes Podcast, we focus on this week's budget talk... from Governor Schwarzenegger's new budget offering to the consensus that this impasse/logjam is alive and well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budget Drama Capitol Weekly editor Anthony York and I examine the dust that's settled since the budget failed to gain passage — both what it means for the impasse itself, and today's chatter about ramifications for one legislator in particular. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Budget? Really? This week on the Capital Notes Podcast, we look back at the week's rumblings on the state budget impasse... from the governor's moves on state worker pay and a possible tax increase, to why legislators are still stuck. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics of Pay In this edition, lengthy excerpts from the governor, the controller, and more about this week's big news as the budget negotiations continue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Dead Yet No, we're not dead. After a long hiatus, the weekly Capital Notes Podcast returns... just in time for another budget impasse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recissions, Rumblings, Revenues On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we wax poetically about some of the latest poltical and policy news... including an insurance industry crackdown, grumbling among some legislative Democrats when it comes to party politics, and the latest news on the state's growing budget deficit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Delegates to Grudge Matches This week's edition of the Capital Notes Podcast has us looking at several tidbits from the world of California politics... including the election of delegates to the Democratic National Convention and several nasty (or soon to be so) grudge matches headed to a ballot near you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Britney for Congress This week, breaking news about a pop star's quest for elected office ... and other more, ahem, real news in California politics and public policy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unpaused This week, we talk about the status of the messy state budget. And we look at some of the more interesting legislative matchups that will appear on the June primary ballot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Denouement In our final edition of the Capital Notes Podcast for 2007 we examine this week's big developments in Sacramento on health care reform. And we check in on the battle brewing over the term limits initiative, Proposition 93. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Star Trek? On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we struggle for analogies that help explain the week's political news on health care reform and the state budget deficit. And one that always gets stuck in my mind is the game of three dimensional chess that was fancied by Spock on Star Trek. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reunion This week's Capital Notes Podcast takes you inside an event from a few days ago that was perfect for California political junkies: a gathering of four former state leaders and one incumbent who gathered to talk about the need for government reform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pervasive Malaise As the state Capitol continues to sit smack in the middle of the political news doldrums, the Capital Notes Podcast develops a "pervasive malaise." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Return Of 37 This week, the Capital Notes Podcast gives you a quick sample of remarks made by former Governor Gray Davis, who spoke this week to the Sacramento Press Club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dance On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we look at the political dance this week on health care reform and the campaign to modify legislative term limits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deadlines This week's Capital Notes Podcast takes a look at two political stories from the week where deadlines are a big part of the story: the effort to reform health care, and the effort to place an initiative on the statewide ballot to change how California's electoral votes are counted in the race for the White House. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Private California Lottery? This week's Capital Notes Podcast is slightly different... a peek into Wednesday's legislative hearing that examined the pros and cons of leasing out the California Lottery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Speaker Speaks This week, a different Capital Notes Podcast: a one-on-one conversation with Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, where he speaks candidly for the first time about recent criticism over his campaign fundraising. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To The Ballot! Ballot measure, anyone? That could be the theme for some of this week's big political stories. On this edition of the Capital Notes Podcast, we examine the chatter that health care reform will head to the ballot... the term limits initiative which is already there... and the still nascent but politically explosive proposal to change the way California casts its votes for President. I'm joined by Anthony York, editor of Capitol Weekly and Laura Kurtzman, political writer for the Associated ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Issues In Doubt This week's podcast features three political issues in doubt: health care reform, an initiative to modify California's term limits law, and a ballot measure asking voters to weigh in on the Iraq war. Each made news this week. Health care negotiations dominated the week, but the rising chatter about what will... or won't... be on the February 5 statewide ballot may have dominated the chatter among political junkies. Anthony York of Capitol Weekly and I are joined this week by Laura Kurtzma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oh So Special The Capital Notes Podcast is back this week, with a look at what has (or hasn't) happened so far in the special legislative session, the odd couple alliance formed to overturn Indian gaming compacts, and the fizzling out of an initiative to change the way California elects a president. My two week escape to Europe means the folks with the real insight this week comes from my co-conspirators, Anthony York of Capitol Weekly and Laura Kurtzman of the Associated Press. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Hour Postmortem "A California budget postmortem is the focus of an early edition of this week's Capital Notes Podcast. Actually, we're calling it a happy hour postmortem. No, we didn't record it in a bar... or on the patio of Chops. It just means we sat down to hash out the 'budget season that was' after work on Wednesday, as opposed to early Friday morning. Anthony York of Capitol Weekly and I take a look at the good, bad, and the ugly. By next week, we're eager to move on to any other political news bu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budget Target, Prez Polls "A more bite-size edition of the Capital Notes Podcast this week. We discuss the potential for a budget deal next week (and some reportedly heavy lobbying of one GOP lawmaker to cast an aye vote) and the race for the White House in California, from polls to possible ballot initiatives. As always, Anthony York of Capitol Weekly and I dish the week's political news. This week, he joins in from our Malibu... umm... "bureau." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Of Discontent "On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, what could be called the political "summer of discontent" -- a state budget impasse that seems to have gotten worse, not better; a battle over which voting machines can (and can't be used) in California come next year; and the growing confrontation over Indian gaming agreements that could be placed on the ballot for voters to either accept or reject. As always, the podcast features myself and Capitol Weekly editor Anthony York. And sitting in this wee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Gang Of 14 "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." Maybe quoting Shakespeare in a state budget impasse is a bit much, but clearly the Senate Republican Gang of 14 feels as though they're hanging tough and making a point... even as Democrats and their own Republican governor seem to be criticizing them as obstructionists. Mind you, that's 14... not 15. More on that on this week's Capital Notes Podcast -- as well as the reaction from the Republican governor to the resistance from his party faithfu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Logjam! The state budget stalemate continues, and is the main focus of this week's Capital Notes Podcast. Senate Republicans demand more budget savings, Democrats reject many of the ideas, and Governor Schwarzenegger urges action. With the regular crew: John Myers, Kate Folmar, and Anthony York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budget Impasse, Scorecard The state budget impasse is our focus on this special early week edition of the Capital Notes Podcast. We take a look back at the negotiations and standoffs from last week, and we also quickly examine a new look at the liberal/conservative spectrum of the California Legislature. I'm joined by Anthony York of Capitol Weekly, and guest podcaster Brian Joseph of the Orange County Register. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State Budget Impasse The state budget impasse is the subject of an unusual (our first!) Capital Notes Podcast alert. A mini podcast, if you will, because the state budget... while being approved by the Assembly early this morning... remains, for now, stuck in the Senate. I've included some comments to reporters from both Senate President pro Tem Don Perata and Senate GOP Leader Dick Ackerman. We hope to be back to a full podcast, with an analysis of the budget (deal, continued impasse, or who knows) on Monday. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Budget, Security, Pets This week: the budget stalemate, another week of big bills from the defeat of a homeland security proposal and pet fixing... and, finally, more about our pal Kate. And oh yes, the radio guy -- yours truly -- fails Audio Tech 101, as you'll hear my microphone was clearly not on! As always, with Kate Folmar and Anthony York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hx Care, Guards, Salaries On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, the usual smorgasbord of Capitol topics: health care reform gets a unified boost... prison guards lose a round in the Senate... and elected officials get a pay raise. Plus, we check to see if Anthony's prediction from last week came true. You'll have to judge for yourself. As always, with Kate Folmar of the San Jose Mercury News and Anthony York of Capitol Weekly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hx Care, Arnold Opines, Wanna-Bes On this edition of the Capital Notes Podcast, we look back at the following stories from this week: health care goes Hollywood, the governor opines on immigrant immersion and Central Valley water projects, and the latest on those who yearn to be the next governor. With John Myers, Kate Folmar, and Anthony York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bills, Bills, Bills Bleary-eyed but alive, we¿ve dragged ourselves in this morning for the weekly Capital Notes Podcast¿ and yep, it¿s all about the bills. Hundreds of bills that sank or swam over the last few days, just in time for the constitutional deadline. With John Myers, Kate Folmar, and Anthony York Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bills, Bills, Bills Bleary-eyed but alive, we¿ve dragged ourselves in this morning for the weekly Capital Notes Podcast¿ and yep, it¿s all about the bills. Hundreds of bills that sank or swam over the last few days, just in time for the constitutional deadline. With John Myers, Kate Folmar, and Anthony York Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website