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Which Way, L.A.?

This Year’s Budget Debate: Like Last Year’s Only More So

Hosted by Warren Olney May. 19, 2010
Will California become the only state in the nation with no welfare-to-work program?  Could lawmakers preserve the safety net by raising taxes on cars and alcohol and delaying tax breaks for corporations? Also tonight, after yesterday’s primaries, it’s out with the old and in with the new in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Arkansas. What’s in store for Tea Partiers, progressives, Democrats and Republicans?

Will California become the only state in the nation with no welfare-to-work program?  Could lawmakers preserve the safety net by raising taxes on cars and alcohol and delaying tax breaks for corporations? Also tonight, after yesterday’s primaries, it’s out with the old and in with the new in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Arkansas. What’s in store for Tea Partiers, progressives, Democrats and Republicans?

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It’s budget season again in Sacramento, with a June 30th deadline that hasn’t been met for the past 20 years. Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed spending plan calls for...

What Voters Had To Say on ‘Tumultuous Tuesday”

Yesterday’s primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania were billed as bellwethers for the November elections—with the establishments of both parties on the defensive....

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Warren Olney

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