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View the full archive of KQED Capital Notes 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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