When state budget talks collapsed last week, Sacramento devolved into a familiar session of partisan finger pointing....The article is written by Thadeus Greenson for The Times-Standard.
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On Friday, Republican legislators released what they deemed a “list of requests” that spanned six pages and covered diverse topics ranging from things like wholesale pension reform and putting a cap on state spending to changing the California Environmental Quality Act and moving the state's presidential primary up to March.
