California Construction Trucking Association (CCTA)

The legislative budget analyst's projection, to be released today, threatens to send Sacramento back into gridlock and force more broad cuts to state programs.

Less than four months after California leaders stitched together a patchwork budget, a projected deficit of nearly $21 billion already looms over Sacramento, according to a report to be released today by the chief budget analyst.

The new figure -- the nonpartisan analyst's first projection for the coming budget -- threatens to send Sacramento back into budgetary gridlock and force more across-the-board cuts in state programs.

Dan Walters

As America's trade with the Far East – principally China – expanded massively during the 1980s and 1990s, California reaped the benefits as the gateway for both exports and imports.

Blasting their horns while driving past City Hall, more than 400 big-rig drivers try to draw attention to new environmental rules that they say threaten their livelihoods.

Hundreds of protesting truck drivers slowed traffic Friday on the 710 Freeway and blasted their horns while driving past Los Angeles City Hall to draw attention to new environmental rules they say threaten their livelihoods.

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)-Sounding more like a Libertarian than a Democrat, California Attorney General Jerry Brown on Wednesday said the state's regulatory framework "burdens" businesses and the courts.

I read this news release from the Govenator’s office Friday (Nov 2) and again today (Sat 3) and find it hard to believe that 110,000 of the 640,000 or 1/6^th or 17% (62,000 are said to be public education industry jobs) of all the jobs saved or created in the U.S. by the stimulus packages was right here in the same state where unemployment is 12.5% or more.

On Dec. 12, 2008, the California Air Resources Board unanimously approved groundbreaking new rules governing diesel emissions. Members rejected complaints from the trucking industry about their heavy cost and from some academics who said CARB grossly exaggerated the health risk posed by the emissions.