“I’m going to take this to the Supreme Court,” is almost always an empty, baseless threat generated by in-the-moment fury from someone who believes they were wronged. But sometimes cases get that far. Sometimes the offended party wins. 

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Steven Greenhut, author of PRI’s “Winning the Water Wars,” talks about California’s drought, water storage, the policy of “water abundance,” and what’s next for Californians on the KFBK Morning News with Cristina Mendonsa and Sam Shane. 

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The game “puts you in charge” of California’s budget surplus, currently at $76 billion according to Gov. Newsom.  It allows you to choose the state’s tax and spending priorities and rejigger the money coming in and going out.  The hitch – the state has to have a balanced budget, so you can’t run a deficit.

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"Newsom called the settlement “further proof that California and the Biden-Harris Administration share a common vision – clean, electrified transportation that will serve generations to come.” But there’s a generation of California drivers in the present wasting hours on overcrowded and torn-up highways. . ."

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But with less than 48 hours before the new fiscal year begins, the Sacramento Bee reports that “Newsom and lawmakers have not yet announced a final deal on the state budget, but legislative leaders released a summary document Friday that says they’ve reached agreement on most areas, including on expanding coverage to more undocumented immigrants.”

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Stockton’s claims of success are undermined by the failure of its preliminary analysis to provide a reasonable economic explanation for why the program would increase participants’ success in finding work. In fact, the report is so superficial, PRI Senior Fellow Wayne Winegarden says it’s impossible to draw any helpful conclusions from its “findings.”

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