One has to wonder if our governor is all there all the time. The weathervane swinging from hard left to sort of maybe right is a wonder to behold. One can only think that his presidential campaign is underway for 2028. The Comicle reports that 808,000 acres have burned this far this fire year–more than twice the area damaged in all of 2023. Completely predictable…because it happens every year.
Dan Walters at Calmatters.org keep banging the budget gong
Initially Newsom proposed a $13.1 billion draw from reserves, but the final 2024-25 budget approved in June took just $5.1 billion from the rainy fund and envisions another $7.1 drawdown in 2025-26. It also largely drains two other reserves, including one for schools. This year’s deficit resulted from a massive overestimate of revenues by Newsom’s administration in 2022, rather than an economic turndown, and some critics have complained that misusing reserves this year could leave them unable to cope with a recession.
Newsom, whose 2022 projection of a huge budget surplus from explosive revenue gains proved to be incredibly wrong, now wants the state to avoid spending estimates of windfall revenues until they are actually in the bank — a prudence that should have been adopted many years ago.
While Newsom flies around the country to swing states and any other state that would have him, his team finds time to issue this warning. As if any sensible city with even modest resources wouldn't already be doing it. He's gotta get this problem that he has ignored for decades under control before 2028. B'game better go check the Eucs along the Caltrain tracks and some of the little nooks and crannies on the Bayfront.
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