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Record Resources and Transportation Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget

June 14, 2019 1:40 pmJune 17, 2019 6:14 am

California’s largest state budget ever — $215 billion — is larded with a record number of local pork-barrel projects injected by individual legislators, often in exchange for “horse trading” votes on passage of certain pieces of legislation. There is pork in every...

Record Education Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget

June 13, 2019 5:03 amJune 13, 2019 5:48 pm

California’s largest state budget ever — $214 billion — is larded with a record number of local pork-barrel projects injected by individual legislators, often in exchange for “horse trading” votes on passage of certain pieces of legislation. There is pork in every...

Record Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget in Many Years

June 12, 2019 10:35 amJune 13, 2019 6:32 am

Pork Barrel projects are a usual occurrence in the state budget, but California hasn’t see pork added on like this in years. To understand how government spending sprees occur every fiscal year, this is how spending takes place. Pork barrel...

Executive Branch Provisions Found in Statutes

May 6, 2019 3:03 amMay 5, 2019 4:58 pm

Here are some interesting provisions about the executive branch found in state statutes (along with the relevant section): General provisions are found in Article 1 of the Government Code in Sections 12001 – 12002. The Governor may appoint and set...