California’s  other budgetary shoe is due to drop this week, regarding what additional spending cuts will kick in due to state revenues that are coming in below last summer’s optimistic projections. Movement on the challenge to the state’s redistricting maps is also imminent.

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Calling the latest revenue figures for the California state budget “good news” might be overstating them. But at least they represent some “not as bad as it could be” news. PLus more on the first ballot initiative to qualify for next June's primary election.

The top prosecutors in California and Nevada are teaming up to go after foreclosure fraud in their states, two of the most severely affected by the rupture of the housing bubble. And the weather word for the day is...COLD.

While local support for the SMART train in the north bay remains fairly strong, despite efforts to repeal its funding authorization, the prospects for a high speed rail line in the center of the state appear to be dimming.