The Legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal adviser says the total $2.7 billion in cuts in Gov. Schwarzenegger’s budget plan involving state employees may be too deep to implement without a serious struggle.

Not to be outdone by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's "garage sale" to raise money for state coffers last summer, legislators have scheduled a "bake sale" Monday to help low-income women obtain cancer mammograms.

A top-to-bottom overhaul of how property taxes are allocated, replacing the jury-rigged structure that evolved after Proposition 13's passage in 1978, is clearly overdue.

Otherwise, we'll continue to see, as with Correa and Wolk, more juicy deals for legislators whose counties want money and whose votes are needed for budgets or other bits of legislation.

Nearly a million Californians who haven't filed their state taxes, including more than 25,200 in Sacramento County, are getting pay-up letters from the state Franchise Tax Board this week.

Under a notice announced Monday, the FTB said more than 900,000 letters are going out to those who earned income in California but didn't file their 2008 taxes last year.

The California Teachers Association plans to begin gathering signatures as soon as today for an initiative to repeal corporate tax benefits that lawmakers approved in the past two years, according to CTA political consultant Gale Kaufman.