The Latest on the Budget Crisis

Today's San Francisco Chronicle details how the budget crisis is starting to hit (here), while Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee offers his thoughts on a spending cap as part of a potential budget deal (here). And here is the Chronicle's latest report on the drive for a constitutional convention. According to the article, the Bay Area Council (the originator of the drive for a convention), along with the League of Women Voters, is co-sponsoring a daylong California Constitutional Convention Summit in Sacramento on Tuesday, Feb. 24. Speakers will address how a convention would be put together and what it would discuss. For more information, go to www.repaircalifornia.org.