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  1. No more columns or videos from me until next Sunday. But lots of varnishing and other boat work.Maybe an occasional tweet.
  2. State Capitol and Twin Rivers School Dist appear to be Sacramento's top crime clusters
  3. @JWilliamsAP @JudyLinAP Maybe Hernandez should claim per diem for his time in jail.
  4. @JWilliamsAP @JudyLinAP It's called field research.
  5. @johnmyers When does the Legislature start censuring its growing number of miscreants? Silence implies tolerance or even approval to public.
  6. @dakasler Wonder whether H-P cuts will coincide with counties where Meg Whitman won and lost in 2010.
  7. Jerry Brown's fighting three-front war to balance the budget. Wednesday's column at sacbee.com/walters
  8. Brown says state bgt a complex pretzel palace but wants to twist school finance even more. Tuesday's column at sacbee.com/walters
  9. @steve4jerry Not me but I think someone should, if and when Meg releases her vassels
  10. @steve4jerry Brown's folks participated in UC campaign post-mortem, Whitman's unfortunately refused, so it's more like half the story.
  11. Why don't we consider hydropower to be "renewable?" Political correctness. Monday's column at sacbee.com/walters
  12. California politicos ignoring state's economic uncompetiveness. Sunday's column at sacbee.com/walters
  13. Fodder for tax measure duel: LAO sez Brown's budget wud leave per-pupil "programmatic spending" virtually flat, undercutting Brown's pitch
  14. Leg Analyst Taylor sez deficit $1-plus B higher than Brown's but he "wouldn't have a problem" with reducing Brown's $1B reserve to offset
  15. @gilduran76 As someone once said, there you go again.
  16. @gilduran76 When some folks have nothing intelligent to offer to the conversation, they revert to personal attacks.
  17. But California may be a tired American state.
  18. A very nasty personal feud will color the campaign over health insurance regulation ballot measure. Friday's column at sacbee.com/walters
  19. War between state judicial leadership and rebel; judges rekindled by revised state budget since Brown wants to grab local court reserves.
  20. California politicians are making big and risky bets with our money. Wednesday's column at sacbee.com/walters