California

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office projects a relatively small $2 billion shortfall for 2025-26, but says the state can’t afford new programs. Gov. Newsom has complained about attention on the office’s deficit estimates.

Figured y'all might enjoy a hopium post.

Question sparked by comment on this post....

For instance: if the Trump admin. tries to coerce CA to drop its climate change initiatives by cutting off federal highway funds, could port fees be increased to make up for the ~~the~~ change?

Is this something the Governor could do unilaterally, or would it take legislative action?

Figuring out which propositions to support has never been easier. I can skip reading and vote the opposite of how those bastards suggest to.

In September, state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and a group of environmental organizations sued Exxon Mobil, accusing the company of falsely promoting plastics as universally recyclable when, in reality, the vast majority of these products cannot be reused.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/xbi3Y

TL;DR; You can raise minimum wage quite a bit, but prices only go up a tiny bit.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20736246

Explore the California High Speed Rail route from above in an airplane to not only see how construction is coming along, but also to observe all of the terrain standing in the way of finishing one of the largest engineering projects in the world. Starting in downtown Los Angeles, we fly 270 miles north along the route through the Mojave desert and Central Valley.