 | 12/31/2008 - California Finance Director Mike Genest released Governor Schwarzenegger's 2009-2010 budget. |
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|  12/30 - When the Governor took office in late 2003, he inherited from the previous administration a state budget that was out-of-whack and a budget-writing process that was broken. There was already a $16.5 billion problem. When he proposed his first budget in January 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger laid out a plan to fix both the budget shortfall and the broken system. |  1/3 - We're in an extraordinary situation that requires immediate action. It has been 59 days since the Governor called the legislators into an emergency special session on our budget crisis. And still, they have failed to take real and comprehensive action to close California's exploding deficit. |
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| Pesticide Usage Down in California |
1/5 - The amount of pesticides used in California dropped for a second consecutive year in 2007, according to the Department of Pesticide Regulation's annual pesticide-use report. Approximately 172 million pounds of pesticides were applied statewide, a decrease of nearly 16 million pounds - or 8.4 percent -- from 2006.
