Twenty-four months ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proudly stood before the cameras boasting of his state's financial status. "No other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this," he said. Newsom's surplus totaled $97.5 billion. One year later, the governor presented a 2023-2024 budget that projected a whiplash deficit of…
Wes Moore had vetoed the bill, saying that the large amount of studies in the state creates a “significant financial and staff burden on the state government.”...