Dan Walters: $10 billion in debt not on Jerry Brown’s wall
When Gov. Jerry Brown talks about reducing the state’s “wall of debt,” he carefully limits it to about $30 billion in budget deficits, mostly money owed to schools and community colleges. One of the debts he omits is the $10 billion-plus that California borrowed from the federal government to keep unemployment insurance flowing to jobless workers after theUnemployment Insurance Fund ran out of money a couple of years ago. Walters column in Sacramento Bee
Read MoreTax bills fail to advance out of Senate committees
Measures aimed at creating new taxes on Californians were held by the Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday, making it extremely unlikely that taxes on cigarettes, soda, strip clubs, plastic bags or oil extraction will become law this year. Capitol Alert
Read MoreCalifornia’s new marketplace picks 13 plans to offer health insurance coverage in 2014
In another major step toward national health reform, California on Thursday unveiled a list of insurers who will offer coverage through the state’s new health exchange marketplace, providing the first glimpse into plans and prices for up to 5.3 million people not covered by employers. San Jose Mercury News article; Sacramento Bee article; LA Times article; HealthyCal article; AP article; Modesto Bee article
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