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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 Arnold Comes Out Swinging On this edition of the Capital Notes Podcast, we examine the impact of the joint legislative session on the fiscal crisis, the governor's deficit clock, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome, Here's Your Deficit The new California Legislature is on the job, and yet as we examine on this week's Capital Notes Podcast, the job is much the same: fix the state's multi-billion dollar budget gap. 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 Red Ink Since we began the Capital Notes Podcast last year, one topic is far and away the most talked about: California's screwed up finances. So why should this week be any different? 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 Vote! This is the last weekend of a very long campaign season across California, and so this edition of the Capital Notes Podcast dwells on the big races to watch come Tuesday. 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